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Scozzola echoed residents’ concerns that real estate was being bought up by foreign nationals, corporations and hedgefund companies, driving up prices while keeping the actual properties vacant. —
Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Congress recently tried to discourage institutional investors from buying up homes by passing the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which restricts that activity. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 The backstory Constructed by Brookfield Properties, which spent four decades spent buying up train yard parcels around the now 23-story property, Pendry Manhattan West was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—the same firm behind the Freedom Tower and Penn Station’s new Moynihan Train Hall. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026 Yet much of the region’s decline was caused by Russian or pro-Russian oligarchs who had bought up factories, bankrupted them to eliminate competition, and imposed brutal conditions on workers. —Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for buy up
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Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Congress recently tried to discourage institutional investors from buying up homes by passing the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which restricts that activity. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 The backstory Constructed by Brookfield Properties, which spent four decades spent buying up train yard parcels around the now 23-story property, Pendry Manhattan West was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—the same firm behind the Freedom Tower and Penn Station’s new Moynihan Train Hall. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2026 Yet much of the region’s decline was caused by Russian or pro-Russian oligarchs who had bought up factories, bankrupted them to eliminate competition, and imposed brutal conditions on workers. —Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for buy up
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“Buy up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/buy%20up. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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