Next year's target is for work to begin on another 10m units (roughly the number of commercial housing units sold nationwide last year).
Management is betting that these regions possess the most upside when the commercial housing sector finally rebounds, if only because they have fallen so far from the peak.
Businesses and commercial premises: More applications to build commercial and housing developments will be fast-tracked, with developers allowed to bypass local councils if town hall planning departments are believed to be performing poorly.
Atlanta's urban sprawl has doubled the land used for housing and commercial development since 1973.
As a result, housing and commercial property costs much less than in nearby spots.
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Such a recession would hit interest-sensitive sectors the hardest: residential housing, commercial construction and automobile sales.
Our products are used in everything from major commercial developments and residential housing to simple home improvements.
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As the chart shows, new orders for private housing and commercial buildings increased in the last quarter of 2009.
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Just as surprisingly, perhaps, the professors find that returns from commercial property and residential housing are also negatively correlated with inflation.
Oliveira at Patrimonial thinks demand for both housing and commercial properties will remain relatively high until things slow after those parties are over.
In Taji, a complex attack of car bombs and roadside bombs targeting two housing and commercial compounds killed and wounded dozens of people and gutted homes and shops.
Transportation, workforce training, new housing and commercial development would be directed to the busiest parts of the city, while minimal services would be maintained in less populated areas.
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As a result of this burgeoning demand for Russian property, housing and commercial real estate values are expected to rise, though the report did not estimate by how much.
With his trusty notebook computer, the new CEO of South Korea's Housing and Commercial Bank is going around the country monitoring the performance of HCB's 446 branches and 54 offices.
The employees of Kookmin, one of the country's largest banks, took even more drastic measures this week when they heard that their bank was talking about merging with Housing and Commercial Bank.
Some observers will say that Oshkosh created its own problems by first overbidding for commercial businesses during the housing boom and then trying to compensate by underbidding for Pentagon business in the bust that followed.
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This is one of the reasons the collapse in housing and commercial building markets has been so damaging to the economy jobs were lost in two ways: making the primary materials and contents, and then actually constructing the buildings.
But as towns and cities have grown, new housing estates and commercial zones have been built on ever more flood-prone areas.
Construction goods had the most profound increase in March, rising by 1.5% as the ailing housing industry and commercial real estate struggle to recover from a bottomed-out market.
Employment dynamos like Seattle and Austin are bright spots for housing and also for commercial landlords.
The economic headwinds are gentler than in America, but there are some familiar-sounding worries: unwinding housing booms, falling commercial-property prices and rising defaults.
Government housing finance groups and Mexican commercial banks have begun offering mortgages in recent years, enabling more of the proletariat to own homes.
Are you going to tell me that the averages will lose only 5% when the commercial paper markets seize up and the housing market, which fed the economy's surge, is very nearly in free fall?
These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
During the housing crisis, many people asserted that commercial real estate was the other shoe waiting to drop.
His company is designing 8, 000 housing units and several million square feet of commercial space.
Together with another local developer he had the rights to 65 acres of waterfront land and a master plan to build 3, 100 housing units and 200, 000 square feet of commercial and retail space, along with parks and marinas.
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Until recently, investors were shunning commercial property in smaller cities, especially those hit hard by the housing crisis.
Its control technologies, like thermostats and fire alarms, are in commercial construction as well as residential and thus partly insulated from the housing downturn.
Later phases of the project will likely include commercial offices, retail buildings and both rental and owner-occupied housing, the developer and public officials said.
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