In just three months, January to March 31, the price of land sold in Shanghai rose 172%.
And restricting land seizures could help push up the price of land on the periphery of urban areas and encourage a more rational use of existing urban land.
But greater Dhaka has become one of the world's most populous and fastest-growing megacities, driving up the price of land and straining the country's electrical, power and gas systems.
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Since 2007, when Vale started to operate the line, soyabean production in the surrounding region has risen by 8.5% a year, and the price of land has more than doubled in places.
This government and the previous Labour government believed this necessary to reflect the fact that developers have seen an increased price of land with newly granted planning permission, and that developers must help a community with extra infrastructure to deal with the increased numbers of inhabitants.
The claw back contracts mean the taxpayer will share in any large increase in the price of the land due to planning decisions.
He said he had not tried to argue down the price of the land but had tried to get the matter resolved in 2003, rather than allowing it to become protracted.
Declan O'Loan said it was inappropriate for Mr Paisley to seek to bargain down the price of 100 acres of government land at Ballee, County Antrim.
Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.
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Toyota's local unit has also increased the price of the LC Prado and Land Cruiser 200 SUVs, which are imported as fully built units, company executives said.
Now, builders are making offers more than 35% higher than that price on an adjacent piece of raw land.
On the day that news broke of Mr Li's stake, Hongkong Land's share price soared by 22% and that of Jardine Matheson by 11%.
Of course, it's no secret that HDTV prices in general have been sinking like a stone over the past half year or so, and while the boutiques are banking on customers finally coughing up the extra dough for "knowledge staff" and better all-around service, we're betting that price still remains king in the land of HDTV.
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True, lending was collateralised, mostly by land and shares, the price of which, until this decade, always seemed to go up.
But there is also a sinister element emerging - organised gangs taking advantage of disputes over land to make a fast profit by buying it at a cheaper price at the expense of both sides.
As the price of food rises globally, the underlying value of land does as well.
That worked out to 10.8 million yen a square meter of land, the seventh-highest price paid for a Tokyo site.
Two implications follow: there will be too much investment, and the price of assets that are in limited supply, such as land, will rise excessively.
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It is the cost to consumers, i.e. the cost after transportation, which is the parity price, not the cost of the commodity in its native land.
Joe bought most of its land decades ago at a very low price.
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In the rare event a borrower went under, his land collateral was as good as gold anyway since legions of land-use restrictions acted as virtual government price supports.
"Throughout the tsunami zone people's attachment to land stretches back thousands of years, " says Price.
"There's always a lot that goes into the final price tag of these venues"--from amenities to regulations to land acquisition.
In mid-August, the government announced new measures aimed at curbing rapid real estate price rises by restricting lending for luxury flats and increasing the supply of land for development.
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The Land Registry figures show some startlingly high price increases in some of the wealthier parts of London, driven by the continued influx of money being invested by foreigners seeking a safe home for their cash.
So Mr Dewar thinks it is time to abolish quasi-feudal rights and to give tenants of large estates the right to buy the land at a price fixed by the government when the landlord decides to sell.
As part of the price of Western recognition for their independence, Kosovo's leaders agreed that their land should have room for non-Albanian minorities.
When the price of oil declines, deepwater drilling and other oil service companies take a bigger hit than land-based operations.
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Our development strategy is to focus our investment on land in the outskirts of a city where there is good growth and price appreciation potential.
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