According to media reports, around 30 real estate projects in Beijing have failed to get sales licenses as planned because their project pricing was deemed much higher than previous projects, and higher than average home prices of similar size in the city.

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We eventually made a game out of noticing cultural differences during the pricing project.

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The recent influx of alternative fee arrangements such as project-based pricing may only offer a temporary solution.

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High quality partners, if they are enticed to participate, give lower priority to the project because of pricing concessions.

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Later in my career, when I was managing a large, multi-national pricing project, German and American team members were having difficulty working with French colleagues.

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However, this comes just two months after Algerian stakeholders in the project announced that their own concerns about logistics and pricing formulas would push back local approval until at least May of this year.

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Anyone researching a big remodeling project likely ends up at Amazon for reviews, tutorials and pricing information.

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