Property expropriation and population resettlement is occasionally required, and the bidding process is often fiercely competitive, given the high value of the contracts.

在建设过程中，有时需要征用财产和转移人口，由于合同价值极高，投标程序往往具有很强的竞争性。

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Residential property values have held steady, for the most part, and the Institute for Regional Forecasting predicts substantial population growth in the Houston area over the years to come.

绝大部分而言，市民房产价值保持稳定，地区预测机构预测休斯顿多年的稳定人口增长将到来。

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HIGH PROPERTY COSTS and a series of hurricanes have helped cause a 4 percent population decline.

高额的财产保险成本和一系列的飓风使当地人口锐减4%。

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Thousands were moving there. A government was needed to protect the lives and property of the new population.

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As a result, it is a mistake to look at the property markets in those major population centers and draw general conclusions about the country as a whole.

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If you look at New South Wales and Victoria, the states where half Australia's population reside, property markets are poor, retail and manufacturing are soft, which is the two-speed economy everyone's talking about.

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Nearly a third of the population now lives in states with community property laws.

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