We anticipate that the center of the storm is going to land fall sometime this evening.
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These part-timers have watched the value of their land fall dramatically since the property bubble burst over a decade ago, and have failed to make investments in their farms.
The biggest Eastern hurricane of the decade, according to meteorologists from Atlanta to Boston, finally weakened early Sunday morning as it made land fall in southern New England after soaking New York.
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And just before the hurricane makes land fall and you're outside and the trees are blowing backwards, your hair is blowing in your face, the water is horizontal, driving into your eyes you can't even see.
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Still, if land prices fall, balance-sheets could look a lot worse.
"If we had to buy an expensive plot of land it would fall back on the taxpayer, " Mrs Jacobs said.
If the bill fails, land prices will fall.
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Bhatia hopes to start acquiring land from local farmers this fall and to have all of the land in his possession by next March.
Yet this collateral is often little better than worthless, thanks to the long fall in land values.
With Iran calling the shots for the Palestinians, it is clear that any land Israel vacates will fall under Iranian control.
Some fear that if allotment holders leave the land then it will fall into disrepair and could then be earmarked for development and lost forever.
Land use has also changed over the last 10 years including a big fall in the number of sheep grazing the land.
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The fall in property and land prices has delayed the ability to deliver this strategy in full.
To prevent a free fall, the government suspended land auctions in 1998.
He was particularly concerned about the plans to expropriate and redistribute land - measures that he said could fall victim to subjective criteria.
Last fall, the city gave the land to Olympstroy, the state company building Olympic venues.
The fall came even as the amount of land used to cultivate the crop rose by 18%, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.
Despite the suspension of land sales, some economists predict property values may still fall by half again.
There will be rich kids who land legacy slots at fancy colleges, poor kids who fall behind while attending rotten elementary schools.
That weaker economy comes with the backdrop of land and property prices that likely have much further to fall, which heralds pain for Spanish banks.
Unfortunately, this advice might fall on deaf ears, as many of the large-scale land acquisitions take place in countries with very weak governance.
Prices for properties in tourist areas are expected to see a 10% to 15% drop on top of current declines, and property prices elsewhere will fall another 20% to 30%, with higher decreases expected for land, the surveyor group forecasts.
Last fall, the Ministry of Housing announced plans to offer 100, 000 plots of land in new towns for those of limited income, all on undesirable lands, many south of Cairo in rural Egypt.
Having seen post-Soviet state assets fall into the hands of oligarchs, China built up a select group of SOEs with cheap loans, land and energy, so that the wealth would remain with the party.
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