Chief executives of public real-estate companies got big compensation raises in 2012, but the median year-over-year increase was the lowest since the downturn.
In Philadelphia, it makes sense to buy an old house: The city's housing stock is venerable, with a median year of construction of 1925.
There is one other issue to consider: one year of 100% growth is a larger move than 5 years of 14% growth (14% growth is higher than the median 1 year growth rate, 1951-1997).
From the salary medians we constructed a sequence of estimated median incomes, year by year, for each school's class of 1994.
Yet, for the 25 pension funds in the survey, the median 10-year return was a measly 3.15 percent ending in June 2011.
Infy is trading at a 36 per cent discount to its 10-year median price to earnings ratio, the widest gap among the foursome.
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Only in the past two years, for example, have wages begun to increase in real terms, and one study to be released next week reckons that the real earnings of the median worker last year were still 3.1% lower than in 1989.
But, we observe in Table 8 that when we look at the relative returns on each of the specific 454 one year periods, that half (median) of the one year periods underperformed by 0.07% or more.
The double-digit year-over-year gain is the largest tracked by NAR since November 2005 when the median price jumped 13% year-over-year.
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This year the median age of the 78 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 hit--are you ready?
That is true whether you look at the average UK household, whose net income grew by 1.2% a year, or the median household, exactly halfway along the income distribution, whose net income grew by 0.6% a year over both periods.
Using attendance data from last year, the median attendance for NFL games in 2010 was approximately 67, 770 fans.
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For the full year, the median core bond manager posted a 6.13% return, 1.9% ahead of the index.
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More recent data available for 2012, including data on job growth, unemployment and wages, indicate that real median income is growing this year.
It was the fourth consecutive year of real income growth and the first year in which median household income surpassed its previous 1989 peak.
Last year, the median sticker price at about 280 private colleges and universities tracked by the debt-rating firm rose 3.9%, the smallest increase in at least 12 years.
Even with chemotherapy, the median survival is about a year.
They charted median wages over a thirty year period for each group and found that wages have risen the fastest for those at the top of the distribution, while remaining relatively stagnant for those in the middle and lower end of the distribution.
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The median yield on the three-year Treasury note auctioned about a week ago was 0.815%.
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Right now, he says, there's a 15-year gap between the median age of people in this country and the median age of broadcast viewing.
When gold was up by more than 20% over a five-year period, the median return from large-cap American stocks in the same era was just 2.1%.
The growth may seem surprising, given that the median number of applications to two-year, full-time M.
Without any housing bubble to burst, the area's median home price even inched up last year.
Amihud, expected to be published this year, finds that the median fund has an R-squared of 93%.
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Median returns have been 5% in Year 1, 5% in Year 2, 22% in Year 3 and 11% in Year 4 since 1927.
Meanwhile, the median sales price was higher than a year ago.
Since 2007, the year before the recession, real median household income has fallen 6.4%.
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Nearly half of the schools surveyed by Moody's reported enrollment declines this fall, though overall median enrollment remained relatively flat from the previous year.
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