Sentences with phrase «during the boom years»

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

This is the kind of gradual relaxing of credit standards that took place during the boom years.

He'd built his business with money from a small venture capital firm during the boom years in the late 1990s.

In comparison, during the boom years between 2001 and 2005, condo sales rose more than 50 percent and existing - home sales increased by 37 percent.

Most indexed universal life policies offer a maximum market return during booming years AND a floor (such as 0 % or 1 %) to limit losses during down market years.

Yet the cooling is posing a challenge for the huge number of licensees who entered the business during the boom years and have no experience navigating a more normal market.

This fund grew quickly during the boom years, but the value has since dropped from $ 17 billion to closer to $ 3 billion by fiscal - year 2013.

During the booming years earlier in the decade, home loans were being passed out with little thought of what was going to become of these mortgages years down the line.

Profit margins, thin even during the boom years, are disappearing as brokerages struggle to meet their costs.

The state's bread and butter during the boom years was the oil industry.

This strategy made sense during the boom years, when a line - up of solid specialty retailers was still attractive to consumers.

During the boom years of 2003 to 2006, production far exceeded the historical average, with builders producing a cumulative surplus of 1.3 million units.

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

This is the kind of gradual relaxing of credit standards that took place during the boom years.

Most indexed universal life policies offer a maximum market return during booming years AND a floor (such as 0 % or 1 %) to limit losses during down market years.

At an average price of 129,000 yen ($ 1,082) per square meter, Japanese land is now about a third of its peak price during the boom year of 1992.

The quasi-state-controlled oil company has new leadership and its stock has been crushed amid the shake up and corruption charges, down as much as 70 % from its peak during the boom years.

For example, multiples were much higher during the boom years of the late 1990s, a period that coincided with strong growth, despite the fact that real yields were 3 % -4 %, roughly 10 times the post-2008 crisis average.

Ratings agencies — including S&P — saw record profits during the boom years when they congruently gave their highest ratings on bundles of troubled mortgage loans.

In fact, given the number of 10 - year loans made during the boom years of 2006 and 2007, many of them in CMBS, 2017 is a particular busy year for the refinancing business.

Youth unemployment is actually pretty low by historical standards; the only time it was lower was during the boom years just before the recession.

In certain markets and at certain times, FSBO sites have become essential viewing for anybody looking, and the segment had expanded furiously during the boom years from 2003 to 2007.

«Temporary help is rapidly approaching a new record,» said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, who noted that there was also a rapid increase in temp hiring during the boom years of the 1990s.

[4] Non-tradable inflation was elevated during the boom years and growth in nominal unit labour costs was relatively strong for most of this period.

Like many U.S. municipal borrowers, Puerto Rico racked up debt during the boom years of the 2000s.

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But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

For instance, teachers have seen real increases in salary, though the average salary of other college graduates grew at a higher rate during the boom years of the 1990s (see Figures 4 & 5).

A few years Agassiz's junior, Gray first trained as a physician in upstate New York during the boom years after the opening of the Erie Canal.

Why were credit spreads so similar during the boom years of the Eurozone?

As for AREO — well, we're all guilty of excess & delusion during the boom years: Like pretty much all funds launched then, prices & potential weren't attractive enough, and leverage was far too high — a lot of those funds are now gone, but AREO still lives to fight another day.

It has emerged that Uberior has defaulted on its banking covenants after missing targets linked to cashflow and profits set during the boom years.

During the early 1970s he studied with John Baldessari at CalArts; he was included in Douglas Crimp's epoch - defining exhibition, Pictures, in 1977; he showed at Metro Pictures along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo during the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in East LA.

His early work, produced during the boom years, was concerned with the effects...

Cuts will come across the board, impacting both senior equity partners, who earned an average of # 1.1 million last year, as well as younger partners promoted more recently during boom years.

During the boom years solicitors were pressurised, both by borrowers and by lenders, to give letters of undertaking to lenders in commercial property transactions.

You say that the growing use of subprime mortgages during the boom years was not about spurring home ownership.

The move is an effort to boost oil prices, which have hovered in the $ 40 - $ 50 range for the past two years, about half their cost during the boom years starting in 2008.

But because overly stringent loan underwriting standards have replaced standards that were far too lax during the boom years, people who have decent credit are often finding themselves shut out when they apply for a loan.

Particularly in areas that remained steady during the boom years, including markets in Texas and Utah, some areas are seeing positive price growth along with improved sales volume.

In Columbus, Ohio, for example, the median home price is about $ 150,000, and price appreciation during the boom years was modest.

As lifestyle centers grew in popularity during the boom years, Poag & McEwen, a Memphis, Tenn. - based development firm often credited with creating the concept, became a rock star within the retail real estate industry.

«Family businesses outperformed non-family businesses during the boom years leading up to the 2008 recession, and during the 2001 and 2008 recession years,» he says, citing a recent Harvard Business Review study.

During the boom years between 2002 and 2007, the residential construction levels did not exceed demographic requirements, according to Pedro Antunes, an economist with the Conference Board of Canada.

This is the kind of gradual relaxing of credit standards that took place during the boom years.

With economic growth slowing — most notably in China — and some markets hampered by currency and governance issues, many companies acquired at peak prices during the boom years have come under pressure.