Sentences with phrase «house standards by»

They are built to Passive House standards by Britco, a big west coast modular company, and designed by Peter Treuheit and Koen Drugmand of Mobius Architecture.

RE / MAX Valley Real Estate, as a member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of REALTORS, embraces the spirit and resolve of EHO logo and enforces the fair housing standards by means of its strict Code of Ethics.

Not exact matches

In Trump's first three full quarters in the White House, GDP clocked growth just shy of his vaunted goal of 3 %, a performance that by recent standards looks stellar.

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

In Gatsby, the Rumsey estate appears in slightly modified form, as Gatsby's own house: «a colossal affair by any standard — it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.»

The results reveal that one of the top reasons millennials work is to pay for basic living necessities like housing, food, and transportation — pretty standard — followed by earning enough money to pay for traveling.

Following the housing crash in 2007, recovery in the market has been uneven, with many buyers held back by stricter lending standards.

A bill making its way through the House of Representatives and heavily backed by Big Food would create a voluntary national labeling standard, while preventing states from mandating labeling on their own.

Affordability: Rates are up, and so are prices, but both had fallen to such lows in the recession that, overall, houses are still cheap by historical standards.

Since the housing crash, brought on by irresponsibly loose standards in the mortgage market, lenders have been very strict with the amount of debt borrowers can carry compared to their income.

Frank also criticized a provision in the bill that he said weakens anti-discrimination standards in housing by raising the number of loans a bank can make before it's required to report on the issue.

In the housing market, this increase in prices was helped along by the relaxation of loan underwriting standards, which made it easier to obtain a mortgage and become a homeowner.

The housing boom was fueled by optimistic expectations for house price appreciation, combined with lax underwriting standards embodied in such practices as no - doc mortgages and widespread speculative activity by investors.

Our houses are large by global standards, and we drive a fair amount.

Our plan was to invest in the Freedom Fund until we considered ourselves financially independent by having enough investments to support our living standards in early retirement, and then focus our attention on saving for a house.

President Donald Trump's former New York doctor says Trump's lawyer and private head of security «raided» his office and took the medical files relating to Trump, an act described by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as «standard operating procedure.»

The financial reform bill passed by the House of Representatives brings retail brokers under a fiduciary standard if they supply investment advice.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

There are at least four factors that can be identified: reset shock, poor assessment of the risks by the lending institution, a decline in underwriting standards and, more recently, the decline in house prices (although this is somewhat endogenous).

«Housing by every standard is incredibly overdone, especially in Toronto and Vancouver, it's hard to get away from the fact that house prices are extraordinarily high here and it will likely erode.»

House prices reported by the Standard and Poor's / Case - Shiller show the same dynamics as the FHFA index, sharply rising prices during the boom followed by steep declines and finally recovery beginning in 2012.

Well, other than the real Manhattan where Fortune 500 and the world elites must have a presence there for whatever reason, most likely egoistic, or perhaps hangout of the world biggest tech lunatics such as the case of Silicon Valley, most cities in the states are actually ghettos — Detroit is one and Canadians have been buying up their rundown houses as if they're free (almost, going by Canadian standard) just when Americans are avoiding them like the plague.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

The predominant standard variable rate on housing loans has fallen by about 3 percentage points since early 1996, to 7.5 per cent.

In addition, while the housing market is recovering, any measure of its health like housing starts still will show a very depressed market by historical standards.

Central planning and the lack of incentive have produced agricultural shortfalls, industrial mismanagement, shoddy products, permanent shortages in housing and consumer goods, economic collapse staved off only by Western credit, and a shockingly low standard of living in what are supposed to be modern industrial nations.

Two - thirds of those who applied were rejected either by the local welfare examiners or by a state licensing authority, which set certain minimum standards for housing and income.

By Midwestern standards, both the lot and the church are small, but in San Francisco's inflated housing market the church was almost prohibitively expensive.

Such cultivation had an impact on America: by 1776, ginger was included in the standard rations of American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, and around1796, ginger ale was first sold by New York's Tontine Coffee House.

Heather Honey by Bernard Michaud A beautiful amber honey with the highland flavor of heather, from the famous Michaud house, this is a mono - floral honey created to incredibly high standards of authenticity.

As the oldest of the major Cognac houses, Martell has continued to set the standard for excellence and quality by perfecting its approach to producing superior products as result of using Borderies grapes, aging in fine grain Tronçais oak and distilling its cognacs clear of impurities.

We booked a rack rate standard room and were given a room with sea view by the steak house.

55 percent of you don't see a mild cold as reason enough to keep your kids away from other children, noting that by that standard, they may never leave the house.

By quarter to one we were installed in our «Cuba house», with «la nina» asleep in her Cuban crib (very sturdy and brand new but wouldn't pass Canadian safety standards) and us installed on the patio with cervezas.

Congress seems likely to raise federal reimbursements by a few cents — which is more than it sounds but still less than the White House requested — and tie the increase to more thorough health standards.

The responses by corporations and government are just the latest examples of consumer pressure leading to changes in standard practices in the food industry, such as housing hens and pregnant sows in cramped cages and feeding antibiotics to livestock.

The area is neat and trim by the standards of the time, with shade trees and ornamental gardens at some of the houses.

It is the first school in the Midwest designed according to the sustainable building standard of the Passive House Institute of the United States (PHIUS), which was developed in Germany to cut buildings» energy consumption by up to 90 percent and drastically reduce the production of greenhouse gases.

Unfortunately, sometimes moms end up trying to more than meet these standards by cooking at gourmet meals, keeping the house spotless, and getting into «competitive mommy» circles that are less about support and more stressful than they should be!

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

This Prefold Diaper Package is a work - house by any standard!

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

But it's also possible that the White House is caving altogether, passively accepting the gutting of improved school food nutrition standards by corporations with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

George Osborne has already indicated that a future Conservative government would seek to remove housing benefit for the under - 25s, hinting at a long - term, transformative plan to reduce state welfare to a bare minimum, well below the standards recommended by Beveridge.

Conservative party co-chairman Sayeeda Warsi faces a formal investigation by the House of Lords» commissioner for standards over her expenses claims.

As SLF Director Dr Buch makes clear, not only is the recovery itself incomplete and built on unsustainable debt and rising house prices, the amendments seek to boost the commitments on jobs, housing and living standards made elsewhere by our party.

«Last November, I mentioned to the Government chief whip and the parliamentary commissioner for standards my concern, on behalf of the House, about what many might regard as an inherent incompatibility between chairing a select committee and having commercial interests, even though fully transparently registered, in the sector covered by that committee,» the Speaker wrote.

Vanguard recalls that the House of Representatives, had on October 14 based on a motion promoted by Rep Solomon Ahwhinawi, PDP, Delta had set up the adhoc committee to probe contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of rail tracks, standard gauge, bridges, coaches, wagons and locomotives between 2010 and 2014 amounting to N1 trillion.

The Commons standards and privileges committee also said that Ms Smith had «clearly» breached rules by wrongly designating her main home and ordered her to apologise to the House on this issue.