It is shutting off lending to land developers and has raised bank reserve requirements five times this year.
The 153-year-old United Auctions had been bought by East-Renfrewshire-based land developers Elphinstone in 2005, but became independent again in 2007 after a management buy-out.
We do believe it is the second, as state-owned Chinese banks do not usually lend to consumers, but to state owned enterprises and land developers that end up continuing the building frenzy.
While construction-related businesses such as land developers, commercial builders, and foundation pourers are still seeing declining sales and are unlikely to be populating the job boards yet, we expect this to change by next year.
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The government will find it easier to plump for Ms Barker's less controversial recommendations, such as a windfall profits tax on land developers, encouraging greater competition among housebuilders and dealing with the skills shortage in construction.
The government's diagnosis is that councils are not working hard enough to find land for developers.
She said there were many areas of land which developers could not afford to build on due to the economy.
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The site closed at the end of 2012 after its owner, BAE Systems, sold the bulk of the land to developers.
This great medieval sinecure relieves academic scientists of the harsh accountability that can land the developers of failed products on the unemployment line.
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Giving farmers the right to negotiate the sale of their land to developers directly would greatly improve their chances of realising the market value of their holdings.
Officials pay the farmers compensation on the basis of the land's agricultural value, whereas developers buy the land at a price nearer to its commercial value.
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Previous steps included rolling out higher down-payment requirements for buyers and increasing land supply for developers.
Since farmers cannot sell their land directly to developers, they have to accept what the government is willing to pay.
The government itself accelerated the trend, releasing huge tracts of land to private developers while pouring tax revenues into expensive desert-reclamation projects.
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Authorities also raised down-payment requirements and increased land supply for developers.
In 2010 the opening of a 4km bridge from the Chinese mainland to the island brought its picturesque villages within easier reach of the usual ruination by land-hungry developers.
That scenario could play out across Manhattan under an unprecedented proposal by the city housing authority to lease out public housing land and allow developers to build market-rate apartment buildings intended for much wealthier residents on areas currently occupied by basketball courts, parking lots and outdoor plazas.
Even if they are forced to sell off land parcels to other developers because they do not have sufficient funds to develop the land, the Gaurs will make quite a lot of money.
The government says it will soon publish revised guidance, encouraging local authorities to use risk-free land first, and obliging developers to pay for flood defences when they build on risky land.
The government will also increase land sales so private developers can build more apartments.
Faced with a surplus supply, local land departments still urge developers to launch new projects, the magazine observes.
The project at Kent Thameside in Ebbsfleet has been agreed by government ministers, three Kent councils and developers, Land Securities.
That could mean continued strains on local governments that depend on land sales to property developers for much of their revenue.
Developers Hallam Land Management proposed to build 326 homes on the site.
It has also leased a 12, 000-acre land area to Chinese developers for a zone in Gwadar Port in Baluchistan Province, near the entrance to the Gulf of Oman.
This government and the previous Labour government believed this necessary to reflect the fact that developers have seen an increased price of land with newly granted planning permission, and that developers must help a community with extra infrastructure to deal with the increased numbers of inhabitants.
For them, grabbing residential land and reselling it to developers is a huge source of revenue.
The site was described as "not fit for purpose" by the former police authority and the land was marketed to housing developers.
At the time of his death, Mr. Gupta made a living buying and selling land for farmers and property developers, court documents show.
But Mr Mustow admitted that much more needed to be done to ensure that farmers did not increase flood risk with land drainage schemes and that developers and builders ensured that new developments allowed water to drain into the soil rather than flushing into the sewers.
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