The federation said the flow of residential approvals during the second quarter of 2011 "resumed its negative trend" in the UK as a whole, after a brief pick-up at the beginning of the year.

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He assumed that he could deregulate 12% to 15% of the apartments a year, a laughable figure that embittered even those residents whom management's private detectives didn't try to evict. (Mr. Speyer's firm, tellingly, had made its name in commercial real estate, not residential.) Mr. Speyer had overestimated cash flow and the pool of would-be affluent renters, and had underestimated maintenance costs.

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As a publicly traded pure play in residential security, ADT has an advantage in its recognizable brand, its dominant share and cash-flow-rich economics similar to those of cable television.

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