Only white men owning a minimum amount of property could vote, around half of white men had the franchise.
In January, the southern city of Zhongshan increased a price cap on residential home sales, and the western city of Chongqing raised the minimum threshold where a property holding tax applies.
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To help the property sector, minimum down-payments have been reduced from 30-40% of a home's value to 20%, the transaction tax has been waived for properties held for at least two years, and more public housing is to be built.
The military services and other defense agencies will have to maintain at least minimum staffing for the "safety of property and safety of life, " Defense Department spokeswoman Lt.
In an effort to protect both patients and patent holders and to harmonize patent protection for various types of goods, World Trade Organization members established minimum standards for protecting and enforcing intellectual property.
It promised every property in Norfolk could access a minimum connection of 2Mbps by 2015 and superfast broadband would be available for most of the county.
But buyers must put a minimum of 40% down on a second property and pay a higher stamp fee if the property is sold within four years.
More than 50% of property managers say that, at a minimum, a monthly gross income should be at least 3x the monthly rental rate and approximately 30% of managers would accept an applicant based on gross income at 2.5x the rental rate.
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His goal is not to fix a property, but to get it to some minimum standard.
And Egypt has proven a remarkable reformer recently, slashing minimum capital requirements for starting a business, cutting costs for property registration and speeding up shipping times on imported and exported goods.
Since the start of 2011, the government had introduced many measures to cool down the runaway real estate market, such as pushing up minimum down-payments, limiting the number of homes a family could purchase in some cities and introducing property taxes in Shanghai and Chongqing.
Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families. (Many ritzy suburbs will not allow a property to have a second kitchen for fear that the owner might take in tenants.) Meanwhile, many of the same communities compete to attract high-value commercial developments.
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