Then there's Russia, where the very idea of middle-class property ownership is foreign.
Those who are really caught are middle-class property-owners in London or the south-east.
Thus primitive communism is the Garden of Eden, the emergence of private property and the class system is the fall, the final gasps of capitalism are the last days, the proletariat are the chosen people and the socialist revolution is the second coming and the New Jerusalem.
For that reason concerns persist that the harm may be a property of the drug class.
The expectation is that the energy boom will make Turkmenistan rich within ten years and create a property-owning middle class.
On April 15, four Second Life property owners filed a class-action suit against Linden Lab, the online world's creator, alleging the company misled players into thinking they owned their virtual lands.
The push to put people in homes and save the casualties of housing downturns has caused a gradual long-term divergence between housing prices and incomes, paradoxically putting us on an inexorable path to redefine the middle class as property-less.
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One way it would do that is by pulling the rug out from under middle-class families who bought property as a safe bet.
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By contrast, in the cities the privatisation of housing since the late 1990s has created a middle class that is using its property as collateral to borrow.
Class A is the sweet spot for most large property-management firms and it is also where green buildings are beginning to shape the market.
But a lot of my Fayetteville neighbors, who have young children, thought the supersized property tax bill was worth paying in exchange for world-class public schools.
Ask most what is the biggest economic risk facing China today and you will probably hear about food inflation, property prices, or growing imbalances between the rich and working class in society.
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He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes.
These are just a few examples of how the Chinese middle class pushes back and demands more protection for their rights, property and privacy.
The company is particularly adept at taking advantage of low property values in its acquisitions, and its ability to bring in first class tenants on long-term leases.
The property bonanza has had more to do with a buoyant economy, a growing middle class and declining interest rates.
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Property developers, anxious to take advantage of a booming economy and a growing middle class, drill boreholes, but these now have to go deeper and deeper to reach water.
Property prices here are mind-bendingly expensive, but the vast majority of people are middle class.
Property-tax collection is a quarter of what it was in 1970, when the middle class began to flee.
Real estate derivatives are a way for investors to gain exposure to the asset class without the need to buy or sell properties by replacing the exposure of the real property to the performance of a real estate return index.
The bank, under the guidance of its top executives, Ferozi and Sherkhan Farnood, a world-class poker player, had begun to founder, in part owing to the collapse of the property market in Dubai.
Shariah courts: Brown's government has begun institutionalizing the practice of separate legal systems for Muslims with the proliferation of "family law" courts where women can be treated, in accordance with Shariah, as second-class citizens - less-than-equal to male Muslims and entitled to a fraction of the property due the latter in the adjudication of divorce or testate matters.
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