Sentences with phrase «rising housing prices raise»

Rising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their promises.

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If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

Seattle's City Council on Friday released new draft legislation that would tax large employers in order to raise $ 75 million next year to counter the effects of rising rents and house prices.

With the Fed poised to raise interest rates any day now, and knowing that housing prices typically drop when the interest rates rise, I didn't want to get stuck in a negative equity situation again.

I can understand why they would raise the rate in order to slow the rise in bank credit and housing prices.

The purpose of a property tax, unlike a consumption tax, is partly to raise more money as real house prices rise, so that the tax rate stays the same regardless of fluctuations in property values.

The move raises the spectre of first time buyers seeing their stamp duty saving eclipsed by the rise in house prices within a few months.

This concluded that along with a rise in house prices, the actual effect was limited in any event in that most people who bought with the benefit of the relief would have bought anyway — raising the question, then and now, of whether the money would have been better spent on genuinely affordable housing for those who would not otherwise be able to buy.»