The sales effort is a way to reduce exposure to some of the high-risk, high-return property funds that got scuffed up during the financial crisis, said Timothy Walsh, director of the New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages the state's pension money.
London's booming high-end property market has hinged on U.K. bankers' year-end bonuses, which have historically fed down payments.
Westamerica Bancorporation, a Californian lender, was lambasted for backing away from high-yielding property loans and allowing its portfolio to shrink.
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After all, 1070 enjoys support throughout the United States, including in states where Hispanics do not make up nearly a third of residents and 41% of schoolchildren, where the population has not come close to doubling since 1990, and which have not just seen a high-octane property boom end in such a devastating bust.
There are signs that sky-high property prices are pushing poverty from the centre to the periphery.
Why put up with an iffy economy and sky-high property prices when you can find a much better standard of living in the South and the Midwest?
First, high levels of intellectual-property protection were seen by Chicagoans as a key (for some, the key) to their vision of free and efficient markets.
Small banks, in particular, are vulnerable to troubles in the commercial real estate sector because they tend to hold a high proportion of property-related loans to total loans.
"The substantial reductions in tax and increases in welfare were made possible by the very high level of property-related tax receipts taken in by the Exchequer during the boom years, " it said.
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REITs offer investors a middle way between the high-risk, high-return vulture funds and stodgy, low-return Japanese property developers, such as those attached to the Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo keiretsu.
The interagency team could, for instance, recommend sensible reforms to our high-skilled immigration policy, improvements in intellectual-property law, better-designed grant programs that push innovative ideas from universities into companies, regulatory reform around the approval of drugs and medical devices, and policies to sustain a robust venture-capital industry and investments in science and math education.
Crews erected a 16-foot-high, 75-foot-long fence around the property to prepare for a controlled burn of the entire home.
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High prices for beach-front property have not just been confined to Wales - or even huts.
Is the security of our intellectual property, high-value data, and media operations any less important?
Don has seven years of experience in corporate, intellectual property and high-technology law.
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He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 16-foot-high gate on his property.
For starters, such agreements could be devised to provide much better protection of U.S. intellectual property and high-technology products than the existing accords do.
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Legally, everything below the high-water mark is public property.
And the back 200 acres of the property provide a high-fenced exotic game reserve.
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Residential property in formerly high-priced areas has also come down substantially.
But the mass migration of newcomers, who have increased tremendously as a portion of the population, has also sparked widespread resentment among Singaporeans faced with ever greater congestion, crowding, high property prices and ever-greater competition for good jobs.
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High-tax countries invariably lag be-hind low-tax countries. n Property rights and the rule of law.
Several developers said that the price for the gas-station property was extremely high even for West Chelsea, but Mr. Shvo was unperturbed.
The smartest home sellers know that holding out for a too-high price will result in a property that sits on the market for months and then, eventually sells for less than the asking price.
Property executives say no other high-profile project has raised as much money from individual investors.
In this environment, Credit Suisse expects property developers, landlords and high-end retailers to do well, while banks, financial firms and mid- to low-end retailers are likely to struggle.
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According to Yolande Barnes, head of residential research for Savills, another high-end estate agency, movements in London property are closely aligned with those in the price of gold.
Across the board, they found that people in the high-power group strongly condemned such things as cheating, under-reporting taxes and keeping stolen property, while finding ways to rationalize committing the same actions themselves.
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