At the current building rate it could have 80, 000 hotel rooms by 2015.
So South Korea has been building at a rate of 100 new homes every year for the past decade.
Another was to use foreign currency: the bank could lend, or accept a bill of exchange, in one currency and collect its debt in another, building a hidden rate of interest into the exchange rate.
Although efficiency may explain a recent leveling of this trend, the penetration rate of building solutions has been insufficient to offset the sheer energy demand, highlighting a gap between actual and theoretical impact.
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By mashing together all of the city's numerous data sources, his team has more than doubled the hit rate for discovering stores selling bootlegged cigarettes and had a fivefold increase in the success rate of building inspectors looking for illegal conversions.
March's rate of home building was 46% higher than in March 2012.
On Newsnight Mr Boles says that the failure to increase the rate of house building is, in his opinion, "the biggest social justice crisis we have".
The expectations of a rate hike are building up even as banks announce their revised lending rates in response to the 25-basis point increase in rates last month.
However, future activity may not keep up this rate of growth, since applications for building permits for the future fell 3.9%, to an annual rate of 902, 000.
Nevada is currently a distant second behind California in geothermal energy production, but it is building new plants at an impressive rate.
The city boasts a high recycling rate and strict green building standards.
That, Sullivan observes in a blog post here, is a lot lower tax rate than the Helmsley building janitors likely paid, when Social Security and Medicare payroll tax rates are figured in.
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Mr Black also called on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK government to reduce the rate of VAT on building repairs and improvement work to existing buildings from 20% to 5%.
He said house building was at about 20% the rate that it was 12 months ago, making it "extremely difficult" to hit the targets.
People like Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney do a lot of their wealth building not because they pay a lower rate, but because they avoid gain recognition altogether.
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Likewise, ground-breaking on U.S. single-family homes hit a four-year high last month, according to the Commerce Department, and building permits increased at the highest annual rate since June 2008.
Separately, data showed Wednesday that housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 584, 000 in November at the fastest rate since May, and building permits increased at their fastest clip since November 2008.
Still, the building was sold at roughly the going rate for space in the area, and it was not clear why Goldman would be willing to pay that much if there were questions about its profitabilty.
We're putting this economy, through these governors, Mr. President, and putting this country on track to lead the world in clean coal technology which we can export -- including exporting to China, which China is building coal-powered plants at a rate of one per month -- one per month.
These would include a new house building programme, bringing back the 10p tax rate and reforming the banking system.
However, one of the biggest mortgage lenders, the Nationwide building society, cut some of its fixed rate loans for new borrowers by up to 0.3%.
If Microsoft were a building, you'd say that its cap rate is 2.2%.
Applications for building permits, which are an indicator of future building activity, jumped 12% to an annual rate of 894, 000 in September.
Lastly, the leaders of three generic companies, Actavis, Biocon, and Cipla were rewarded for doing what was long dismissed as impossible: building profitable companies by selling medicines at cut-rate prices.
Excluding home building, real GDP was up at a 4% rate in Q2 and is up 3.2% since last year.
The Bank of England's base rate is still at a record low of 0.5% and many variable rate savings polices on offer from banks and building societies offer less than 1% to their savers.
Moreover, the Central Bank is likely to welcome the strengthening of the BRL, as appreciation can help ease some of the building inflationary pressure that higher food prices and a stable exchange rate were allowing to flow through to the economy.
Building permit applications fell 3.1%, to an annual rate of 969, 000, which was roughly in-line with economists' expectations for an annual rate of 960, 000 units.
And in an encouraging sign for the rest of the year, applications for building permits, a sign of future construction, rose to an annual rate of 925, 000 in January.
He told the Commons he wanted more "affordable" homes to be built, 25-year fixed-rate mortgages and more government-owned land to be used for building.
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