Conflicts of interest are possible: some buy-out firms' in-house dealmakers conduct valuations, which are reviewed by consultants and auditors and approved by senior executives.
You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.
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Frank Field, a former Labour minister, thinks this could be as much of a vote-winner as the Tory scheme to let council-house tenants buy their homes.
In Australia, where the house-price boom has been driven by the buy-to-let market, investors now account for 45% of all new mortgage lending.
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It changes the equation, however, if she thinks she might want to buy a big-ticket item like a house in the not-too-distant future.
There was nothing sophisticated about these deals: Imagine lending your brother-in-law the money to "buy" your house at a profit, and guaranteeing you'd buy it back from him if it lost value.
The House-passed health care legislation doesn't include a Medicare buy-in provision.
His father was a door-to-door salesman of household items like dishes and blankets and, eventually, saved enough to buy a ranch house in the working-class community of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Louis, recently signed a contract to buy a three-bedroom house with a boat dock and a swimming platform on the shore of Lake of the Ozarks, a Missouri vacation spot.
As a result, some advisors and customers have taken the opposite position and will not buy or offer their in-house funds at all in order to avoid any nuance of indiscretion.
It seems that the combination of digital payments, always-online play and the temptations to fraudulent practices created by the heavily-trailed (and much-delayed) Real Money Auction House, in which players can buy and sell items for cash with Blizzard taking a transaction fee, is causing trouble.
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But how far should arguments that amount to claims of eminent domain -- the same law that allows the government to buy your house so that a new freeway can be built through your neighborhood -- be allowed to go?
The House of Representatives had a buy-American provision in the stimulus bill, which, thankfully, the Senate diluted.
They see their neighbour, who borrowed more than he could afford to buy a fancy house, getting a bail-out to save him from the consequences of his own poor judgment.
The Democratic proposals passed by the House and Senate - in limbo for now - would require most people to buy coverage.
" Watanabe, Merner advises, should rely on developing new talent in-house rather than buy "an old idea that's gone extinct.
We in developed countries take for granted the relative ease of starting a business and the existence of a uniform property rights system--you can buy a house in Idaho and get financing for it from a bank in London or Hong Kong.
"I can finish school, get a job, buy a house, " said Angel Silva, a 23-year-old Los Angeles college student brought from Mexico when he was a infant.
Many families took advantage of the right to buy their council house at 30% of its market value - at least two-thirds of the Becontree estate was sold to the private sector.
The DNC ad buy is an indication that the White House understands the key health-care battle will occur in the Senate, not the House.
She intervened (and likely saved my marriage) when I wanted to buy that really cool house with the basement party room and built-in urinal.
So if you want to get -- if you want to buy a house, then putting zero down and buying a house that is probably not affordable for you in case something goes wrong, that's something that has to be reconsidered.
And Random House recently tripled the prices it charges for libraries to buy e-books.
Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
"Now TSA can go through the established process, seek input from stakeholders and consult with the (Transportation Security Officer) workforce -- so we can have a sensible security policy with stakeholder buy-in, " the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee said in a statement.
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Enter Lindsey and Steve (Annie Parisse and Jeremy Shamos), a well-heeled young white couple who want to buy the Younger house and turn it into something bigger, fancier and tackier.
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This year, retail giant Best Buy confirmed that it sold autorun virus-infected digital picture frames under its in-house brand, Insignia.
The main threat to the housing market is that house prices remain over-valued, whether for first-time buyers, buy-to-let investors or owner-occupiers.
McCullough says the housing market became a place where homeowners could buy a house, fix it up, and sell it to another buyer in a two-year span.
By making the deal to buy distribution rights to The Avengers and Iron Man 3, the studio brings in-house two of the most important upcoming Marvel films.
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