In some places these dwellings may sit idle for a while, keeping downward pressure on property prices.
Home sales and prices in major cities have subsequently fallen, although this has put pressure on property developers and on local governments that depend on land sales for revenue.
The gushers of cash that have flooded Singapore in recent years have put relentless upward pressure on property prices, with private-home prices rocketing 59 percent higher since the second quarter of 2009, even as real-estate prices have tumbled or gone sideways in much of the rest of the world.
There are, it is true, pockets of inflationary pressure (in property, for example) but the authorities can cope with a bit of this: the central bank has just increased the reserve requirements for banks to rein in their lending.
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Because Europe's governments have signed away national control of interest rates, fiscal policy is the only tool to hand if the single monetary policy leaves their economies growing more slowly than they might, or faster than they can sustain without pressure on wages and property prices.
Yet banks face some pressure to sell their troubled property loans sooner rather than later.
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Bubbles, they fret, are forming in property markets, inflationary pressure is building up and reforms needed to promote sustained growth (including measures to promote urbanisation) are not being carried out fast enough.
Over in Britain, the government of Qatar is buying chunks of J Sainsbury in the hope that it can eventually pressure the British supermarket to sell its property assets.
Carrefour did so after French billionaire Bernard Arnault teamed up with Colony Capital, an American real estate fund, to buy 10% of the hypermarket concern earlier in the year. (See: "Carrefour Drops As Arnault Takes Stake") After the purchase, the new shareholders reportedly put pressure on management to carve off the property assets.
With yields that low, property prices will probably be under pressure in coming years, as more and more couples like the Wollacks figure they are better off renting.
Mainland property stocks came under further selling pressure.
Under their pressure, Haiti's interim government has proclaimed the property a National Heritage, but this changes little.
They blame pressure from a rapidly changing society, increased competition, long work hours and high property prices.
Edward VI succumbed to local pressure and returned the ownership of the Hospital and all its possessions, land and property to the corporation, which then used it to priorities charitable work in the community.
They prefer to talk about Chinese theft of intellectual property, suggesting that on that front a President Romney would work with allies to pressure Beijing.
But now that Carrefour's core business is under pressure, it may not be able to afford to lose the cushion of owning its own property and thus avoiding rent, says Philippe Suchet, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in Paris.
Schools have been put under pressure to sell playing fields to raise funds, particular in cities and suburban areas where rises in property and land prices have made open land very valuable.
Wednesday's report said Washington would work with its allies to coordinate on ways to pressure countries like China that the U.S. government says are engaged in rampant theft of intellectual property.
Wednesday's strategy report said Washington would work with its allies to coordinate on ways to pressure countries like China that the U.S. government says are engaged in rampant theft of intellectual property.
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Jeffries has been hot property since returning from Beijing, and along with fellow Olympic medallist James DeGale, has been under immense pressure from pundits and promoters to join the pro circuit.
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