The land the house sits on is slated to be a high-end housing development.
Even massive walk-in closets, outdoor kitchens and exercise rooms have become somewhat commonplace in the world of high-end housing.
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It isn't yet clear whether the sequester, and its resulting job reductions, will affect the high-end housing or condo markets.
Second homes and high-end housing are especially weak on these scores.
In particular, if lower-end housing prices are now making the strongest gains, people looking to enter the housing market for the first time should prepare to act.
Now, you cannot - even if the Lib Dems allowed it - introduce a regional benefit cap, or end housing benefit for under-25s and so on - because there is not the time left.
They also warned that people who responded to the benefit cut by leaving social housing could end up claiming more housing benefit in the costlier private sector.
It tends to build housing for people at the low end, and that's highly subsidized housing, or people obviously at the upper end.
That means a load of pubs will end up as housing or supermarkets, ripping the heart out of many communities.
While vandals scrawled graffiti on the walls of the Renault plant, government officials dragged their feet, says Pinault, who was prepared to build a square around his museum, but he wanted to make sure that the rest of Ile Seguin would be developed appropriately, with high-end shops or housing for artists.
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Given that U.S. housing prices peaked at the end of 2005, this means that the bottom won't come before the end of 2010, with real housing prices falling perhaps another 8%-10% from current levels.
We can already see the dramatic negative impact on the housing industry of the end of those programs, and the inability of the housing industry to make it on its own.
Fifteen miles from Spain's southeast coast, about 2, 000 homes were built around a well-manicured golf course at the tail end of a decadelong housing boom.
At the start of the fourth quarter last year, at the end of September, Brazilian housing prices had already risen by 15% while inflation was not even half that.
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But the end of government support will put housing markets under great strain.
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Those who are caught bartering can end up in the "Special Housing Unit" -- an isolation area also known as the "hole" -- and could lose credit they get for good behavior.
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Despite restrictions on lending and higher taxes for selling a home, demand for housing in China has no end.
AvalonBay Communities owns high-end rental apartments, and during the housing boom they lost scads of customers to the homeownership craze.
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To this end, the minister says that new housing will not be on the greenbelt, but he does say that open land will be targeted.
As housing starts surged at the end of 2012 so too did demand for Spangler's building and construction materials supplier National Gypsum's products.
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