Las Vegas has experienced some of the worst of the housing bust, exacerbated by overbuilding.
Some analysts believe the wave of apartment development under way could lead to overbuilding.
Think about it this way: There was a period of overbuilding during the last decade.
The refining business had been lousy for a decade: Overbuilding in the 1970s ensured thin profit margins.
Even before the Expo, a Sofitel hotel manager I spoke to was concerned about overbuilding in the city.
When the housing market can respond to demand by adding to supply, there is a greater risk of overbuilding.
If China were building infrastructure projects in triplicate, it might portend that China was overbuilding at a faster pace than Dubai.
Longleaf thought Carmike Cinemas' (nyse: CKE - news - people) presence in small towns would insulate it from overbuilding.
He argues that overbuilding in China has helped the country avoid bottlenecks.
The subprime-loan mess, overbuilding, underwater mortgages and home sale nosedives around the country are making it increasingly difficult to thrive in real-estate sales.
But home prices in certain smaller cities have been declining since the start of 2012 as a result of government property-tightening measures and overbuilding.
She says it is important to protect wetlands and coastal habitats that are threatened by overbuilding, because these wetlands serve as natural barriers to storm surges.
Nobody loves these pools of properties, fearing that we're in for a reprise of the early 1990s when overbuilding led to huge vacancy rates and widespread foreclosures.
Of course, you can chortle at the outrageous overbuilding in places like Dubai, but the Western world might do better to appreciate the scope of their ambition.
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What doomed real estate a decade ago was overbuilding--in a climate of 18% vacancies and overliberal treatment of depreciation, prompting banks to make construction loans approaching 100%.
What doomed real estate a decade ago was overbuilding--in a climate of 18% vacancies and overly liberal treatment of depreciation, prompting banks to make construction loans approaching 100%.
Those local governments in turn used the loans to provide economic stimulus through highway construction and other infrastructure improvements, as well as an overbuilding of homes and office buildings.
Even so, overseeding practices in the Southwest have changed dramatically in the last five to seven years, as the golf industry's overbuilding boom went bust and put pressure on bottom lines.
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But this growth wasn't sustainable, and significant overbuilding resulted.
But this also is a treacherous time to make a big bet on the retail industry, which is battling headwinds from a weak economy, competition from online shopping and overbuilding during the boom years.
This overbuilding has had a few driving factors.
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In addition, Mr. Lowe said there is little new construction planned, and he noted much of overbuilding during the boom occurred far from the Legends, which is about 12 miles west of downtown Kansas City.
Created 43 years ago under a quirky Los Angeles County law that was meant to discourage overbuilding in residential areas, Industry was set up to take on the messy development others didn't want in their backyards.
Losses by commercial-building owners, lenders and investors are likely to be tempered by the lack of overbuilding in recent years and the ability of most office buildings and other commercial ventures to keep current on their mortgages.
Our country has wisely selected the third option, which means that within a year or so residential housing problems should largely be behind us, the exceptions being only high-value houses and those in certain localities where overbuilding was particularly egregious.
Although I have been critical of certain cable practices, it is a step too far to suggest that cable companies should be subject to price regulation or government-subsidized overbuilding because they invested in neighborhoods where no else has been willing to follow.
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