The Whitewater scandal, in retrospect, was little more than an ill-advised piece of property speculation.
The government is admittedly targeting property speculation, so this may not be as relevant to borrowers in other sectors.
The government has been trying to curb property speculation by making it harder for second time home buyers to acquire property.
China began tightening credit and taking measures to curb property speculation since early 2010, and has vigorously implemented those policies ever since.
And some cities might take the plunge if the central government offered to lift the curbs it has placed on property speculation.
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The debacle has its origins in property speculation and tortured planning rules.
States members also agreed by a vote of 25-21 to implement a review on how taxation might be used to deter property speculation.
To put a lid on property speculation and plug the hole in municipal finances, China's property taxes will have to cover more homes in more cities.
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China has in the past two years implemented measures to curb property speculation and make housing more affordable, including higher interest rates and limits on house purchases.
The British-run territory had sought to cool property speculation in 1994 by limiting the amount of mortgages and cracking down on the sale of unfinished developments, among other moves.
But they are dogged by property speculation from the north, and an economy distorted by European policy, as much as they are by their own shortcomings as a young democracy.
Dubai's stable politics and business-friendly culture, along with rampant property speculation, helped fuel growth of as much as 13% in the years before it came to a screeching halt in 2009.
Cheung Kong didn't respond to requests for comment, but in his twice-yearly news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Li warned that investors, "definitely shouldn't go into property speculation" at this time because of the financial-market volatility.
Banking analysts say that during the property boom in the last decade, businesses in Northern Ireland were far more likely than their counterparts in Great Britain to take on cheap bank loans for property speculation.
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Critical to the approval by the Comptroller was a pledge that half the rooms would be used by its own employees, thus making the project a bit less like a property speculation and more like the routine addition of a facility.
Wenzhou, a coastal city known for wealthy entrepreneurs and property speculation that was hit by a credit crunch last year, posted the largest sequential and annual slide in December, with prices falling 1.9% from a month earlier and 6.9% from a year earlier.
The low interest rates, the easy money led to property booms, speculation, and piles of debt.
The city will continue enforcing property curbs to fight speculation, a senior government official said Wednesday.
Beijing has been trying to curb speculation in the property sector to prevent the formation of asset bubbles.
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Singapore's government imposed the tax in December 2011 on most foreigners to fight what it contends is excessive speculation in the property market.
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Its decision to press ahead now is part of stepped-up efforts since early last year, including two interest-rate rises, to curb speculation in the property market and show the poor it cares.
And, on the basis of recent history, it is fair to assume that the Bundesbank and many Germans would go bonkers if they thought they were really being forced to bail out a bank that bankrupted itself by rampant speculation on land and property.
Mr Pryor said it could lead to speculation in certain types of property as well as in shares in commercial property firms.
Egypt's main stockmarket index has sunk by a third since January, and a crash in property values, after an orgy of speculation in the mid-1990s, has landed banks with substantial bad debts.
But she can only blame her boss, who does little to quash the speculation that almost every Canadian media property is in his sights.
Direct investment by individuals in property and the stock markets is positive, but speculation, or over-investment, can be problematic.
Then the property market slowed in 1994 as the government moved to cool speculation.
As prices rise, property is arguably more likely than many other asset classes to encourage speculation.
In a commentary published Friday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said local authorities have to calibrate their grip on the property market by balancing support for first-home purchases and curbing speculation.
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