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It suggests that an estimated 30 to 40 per cent of households with mortgages are accelerating their payments.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

Not exact matches

Colgate - Palmolive — The household products maker beat estimates by 2 cents a share, with quarterly profit of 74 cents per share.

A household with a $ 360,000 mortgage and a gross income of $ 63,000, for example, would have to pay an extra $ 180 monthly, around 3.5 per cent of income.

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada found the number of households with a HELOC and a mortgage against their home has increased nearly 40 per cent since 2011, prompting commissioner Lucie Tedesco to caution this month the trend «may lead Canadians to use their homes as ATMs.»

Paying for all of the costs associated with a detached home in the Vancouver area requires 121 per cent of median household income; for a condo, it's 46 per cent of income, making it Canada's least affordable city, according to economists at the Royal Bank of Canada.

BMO says 84.4 per cent of households headed by young people owe some form of debt, compared with 82 per cent of the same households in 1984.

The 2016 figures showed a further worsening of Hong Kong's wealth gap, as the richest 10 per cent of households - with a median monthly income of HK$ 112,450 - earned 44 times more than the poorest 10 per cent making an average of HK$ 2,560.

With funds managers holding about 15 - 20 per cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition of household assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.

«We find that 60 per cent of the small business deduction goes to households with more than $ 150,000 in income,» Mintz said, of research he has previously done on the subject.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

The robust rate of spending by US households and businesses has resulted in a sharp increase in imports into the US, with the volume of imports increasing by 9.2 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

Either way, come September, for the first time, Australians can no longer watch Australia's One Day or Twenty20 Internationals played in Australia on free - to - air television — with that (effectively siphoned) privilege going to the fewer than 30 per cent of Australian households subscribed to pay television.

The household sector remains the key driver of growth, with retail sales having risen by 6.4 per cent over the year to March.

This slowing is attributable to the household credit component, which expanded at an annualised rate of 13.2 per cent over the same period, compared with the peak a year previously of more than 21 per cent.

The market absorbed the sale of an additional 16.6 per cent of Telstra quite comfortably, with strong demand by households.

Nevertheless, the growth of credit to both the household and business sectors remains high, with aggregate credit growth still running at an annual rate of 12 per cent over the six months to December 2004.

While payments are expected to rise in Alberta, the report says that Calgary and Edmonton are still the most affordable condo markets when local incomes are taken into account, with mortgage payments taking only about 9 per cent of household income.

Canada wasn't the focus of the panel discussion the governor was participating in, but Carney did hint, in passing, that the BoC is willing to put up with higher than two per cent inflation in order to avoid hurting highly indebted Canadian households by raising interest rates too quickly.

Over the past year, household credit has increased by around 20 per cent, and with the value of housing loan approvals continuing to rise over recent months, there seems little prospect for a near - term slowing in the pace of growth.

Total household assets rose by 6 per cent over the year to the December quarter 2004 (Table 7), in line with income but well below the average of previous years.

Over the year to February, credit to the household sector grew by 11 per cent, compared with growth in households» nominal income which has been running at around 5 per cent; much of the growth in debt has occurred in home mortgages.

Over the year to December, total household credit was up by 21 per cent, with annualised growth over the final three months of the year at a slightly faster rate.

Taking these facts into account, and allowing for the fact that households with debt have, on average, incomes about 30 per cent higher than the average for all households, interest and principal repayments probably account for something like 20 per cent of disposable income among those households who have debt.

The study however found that seafood was still purchased by 95 per cent of Australian households within the year, with each household spending an average of AUD $ 160 across 16 different shopping trips.

Households, in turn, have today levels of financial burden in line with those observed in other European countries (25 per cent of disposable income in Spain, versus 28 per cent in France and 24 per cent in Germany).

This IFS research puts the Budget's regressive impact beyond doubt: the poorest will be hit more than many of the richest in cash terms let alone as a percentage; poor and middle income families with children lose out more than any other household types and the very poorest families with children lose more than any other groups — with 5 per cent of their total income being cut.

«Sixty to seventy per cent of households in England affected by the [bedroom tax] contain somebody with a disability and many of these people will not be able to move home easily due to their disability.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The premiums under Quebec's partially - subsidized public drug plan can amount to more than three per cent of a $ 40,000 household income, but only 1.6 per cent for households with an $ 80,000 income.

«Because only about 20 per cent of such people wear hearing aids, the only way to resolve this problem is to improve the level of sound for them without annoying other viewers in the household with normal hearing who don't want to be subjected to a loud volume.»

33 per cent of singles would swoon for someone with a pet, making furry friends the second-most attractive household addition.

With around 65 per cent of Australian households owning at least one pet, Sydney dog - owner Britt Smith recognised the large market for her website,, which she set up earlier this year.

Amongst those respondents who didn't select «none of these», over a quarter * (27 per cent) of British adults with children in their household admitted that their children actively take part in activities such as sport, but they themselves do not.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

A family with household income of $ 80,000 and a five per cent down payment will see their purchasing power drop by $ 100,000

Cameron Muir, chief economist with the British Columbia Real Estate Association, said a family with household income of $ 80,000 and a five per cent down payment will see their purchasing power drop from $ 505,000 to $ 405,000.

The household debt - to - income ratio now stands at 169.4, up 23 per cent from a decade ago, and on par with what the U.S. saw at the peak of its housing bubble.

The household debt service ratio, the obligated payments of principal and interest as a proportion of disposable income, was 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter, compared with 13.5 per cent in the third quarter.

Heavily - indebted households — those with debts of at least 3.5 times their gross income — accounted for 8 per cent of all indebted households in 2012 - 14, up from 4 per cent before the 2008 - 09 global financial crisis.

If one adds the spilled hydro and curtailed wind to the net exports, the 21.2 TWh could have provided over half of all average Ontario households with power for a full year, yet we sold it 2.36 cents / kWh while we paid 10.14 cents / kWh for its generation.

It all seems to derive from an official Swedish government site which writes that «With its ongoing recycling revolution, less than one per cent of Sweden's household waste ends up in a rubbish dump» and comes with an impressive video, which Mike covered earlier in TreeHugWith its ongoing recycling revolution, less than one per cent of Sweden's household waste ends up in a rubbish dump» and comes with an impressive video, which Mike covered earlier in TreeHugwith an impressive video, which Mike covered earlier in TreeHugger.

Forty - two per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years or older were daily smokers in 2012 — 2013, 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.7 This is a decrease from 45 % in 2008 and 49 % in 2002, a similar rate of decline as among other Australians.7 In 2008, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who smoked daily were less likely than other Australians to live in homes where no one usually smoked inside (56 % v 68 %).5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers with lower household incomes were significantly more likely to live in homes where someone usually smoked inside.5

Let's consider a scenario in which an average household making $ 150,000, with minimal debt and a deposit of 20 per cent or more, gets approved for a mortgage rate that is more than two percentage points below the current Bank of Canada five - year benchmark of 4.89 per cent.

There has been a five - per - cent increase in the need for food assistance since 2011, and 47 per cent of households requesting this help are families with children, says KWAR.

With more than 1.3 million renter households in Ontario (29 per cent of Ontario's households) and a major trend towards condominium investment units, Paliwoda believes it is essential to get the facts out there.

«Consumer intentions across the five major markets surveyed remain strong, with eight per cent of households thinking seriously about buying a home this year,» says Bob Dugan, chief economist at CMHC, in a news release.

Despite the higher level of household debt, Canadian household finances are stable with consumer bankruptcies down by 1.7 per cent and 90 - day - plus delinquency rate falling by 6.4 per cent year - over-year.

By 2030, the price of solar power could go down to 6 cents per kWh, saving households about $ 400 per year when compared with today, the report says.

Provincially, Alberta had the highest proportion of households with a mortgage (62.1 per cent) and Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest proportion (44.8 per cent).