In Iowa, land values fell by more than 60%, dragging thousands of farmers into bankruptcy.
The lure of comfy suburbs so close to jobs has kept peninsula land values climbing for decades.
Yet this collateral is often little better than worthless, thanks to the long fall in land values.
Connor who worked for the Mutual Bank Corp. performed a legitimate assessment of the house and connected land values.
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Then sell once housing recovers, the stock-market discount disappears or land values jump.
The surrounding area was a burgeoning upmarket neighborhood, and land values had appreciated.
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Like Chesapeake Energy, Penn West might start selling off drilling sites and monetizing assets as land values increase over time.
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She said the Lottery would benefit from profit sharing based on rises in land values in the Olympic park area.
But it has now had to suspend these plans in the face of falling land values triggered by the slowing property market.
"I would like to see a much tougher approach to the windfalls on property and land values enjoyed by the super rich, " he told delegates.
Land values have risen three-to five-fold since he started the project.
Credit and commerce collapsed under the resulting inflation and distrust, barter returned to poorer parts of the empire like northwestern Europe, and land values there plummeted.
These, it is feared, would take advantage of any changes to persuade farmers unaware of land values to sell their holdings at less than market rates.
The traditional cattle-ranchers, squeezed out by spiralling land values along the front range of the Rockies, are much more pragmatic about growth than the new arrivals.
Some critics say the new farm aid has more to do with politics and land values, steady for some years after a sharp rise in the early 1990s, than with farm incomes.
"Our development has the potential to kickstart regeneration in one of the most deprived boroughs in London, where land values are poor and yet no regeneration monies are available to it, " added Levy.
With its short life and great height, the spiky Shard graphically illustrates exponentially increasing inner-city land values, while the chaos of old and new masonry surrounding it testifies to the greed and short-termism of successive generations.
Persimmon added that the early release of its third-quarter report - which had been expected in November - was due to "further pressure being experienced on selling prices and, consequently, residential land values" as a result of the current crisis in the financial markets.
"There's clearly been a rapid appreciation in residential land values, but at the same time you've got to keep reminding yourself that you're buying a nonperforming loan, " says Curt Bailey, president of Related Midwest, a unit of Stephen Ross's Related Cos. that has expressed interest in the site.
Taxing not corporate profits but consumption or even better land rental values.
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And underlying this confusion is a further derogation - that of an ideal both men shared, which was that the municipalities of the future should utilise increasing land-values to improve the collective lot.
Costly land and labour values have forced many perfume makers to move to major cities and increase the use of synthetic materials, said Virginia Bonofiglio, associate chairperson of cosmetics and fragrance marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
These critics charge that unfettered markets and runaway technology, far from bringing us closer to the promised land, destroy cherished values.
Despite the suspension of land sales, some economists predict property values may still fall by half again.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
The falling values have also hurt the property tycoons, who have been urging the government to suspend land sales in order to force prices back up.
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