Sentences with phrase «higher land costs»

Price growth upwards of 24 percent moves the needle in the opposite direction, possibly because at that point, builders begin shouldering higher land costs and incomes start to lag behind prices, researchers speculate.
The Illinois buildings are about $ 10 million because of higher land costs.
I'm sure there are costs required for code, and higher land costs here than Asia... but they build them as basic churches without the flashy attributes taken for granted stateside.
Yet in many areas, especially cities, these residences on wheels may not be economical to own, because of zoning regulations, high land costs and other drawbacks.
And Heidi Burkhart, president of the affordable housing brokerage Dane Real Estate, warned that the higher construction wages negotiated by REBNY and the Building Trades Council could stifle development on projects with high land costs and thin margins.
High land costs are a side effect of a lack of supply due to preservation efforts, she said, adding the current town zoning code has also hindered efforts to attract affordable housing to the area.
Mattamy Homes COO Brian Johnston told Construction Dive, «Fundamentally, ground - oriented housing is not efficient, and proportionately, too much of the cost is chewed up by high land cost.
Primary markets tend to have a limited inventory of Class - A properties due to barriers to new construction such as high land costs.
The panel again reiterated that high land costs and regulatory burdens have made new development really challenging.
Rents in many markets fail to justify new development, largely due to high land costs and increasing construction costs, according to Marcus & Millichap.
Cross-dock warehouses are rare in the Greater Boston market, where high land costs have resulted in limited new warehouse construction.

Not exact matches

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.
«The costs for a similar landed product from China today would be 10 % to 15 % higher
That's because land costs in China, believe or not, are much higher.
The fees are one of many factors driving up the cost of buying or renting a home, including income inequality, restrictive zoning, low construction productivity, a historic slowdown in housing production, and high prices for land, materials, and labor.
We've all underestimated employees — or just people in general — but the cost surely wasn't as high as when Nike let Stephen Curry slip through its fingers to land with Under Armour.
Builders say they can't lower prices much or build cheaper starter homes because of the high costs of land, labor and materials.
A high credit score can help you get lower interest rates and control your costs, no matter where market rates land.
Both all - time highs are being fueled by steady demand from move - up buyers coupled with the rising costs of land, labor and materials.
In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.
Previously, timber was largely restricted to institutional investors because of the high costs associated with acquiring timber land.
Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.
In many F&A industries, maintaining high standards of environmental sustainability (e.g. reduced water, energy, waste and land footprint) and animal welfare have already transitioned from being potential differentiators to accepted costs of doing business.
Higher milk prices along with lower feed costs and land values are proving a factor in rising demand for dairy assets.
Costs have been estimated at # 400 - 450 million, but could rise as high as # 800 million due to complexities in the build on what is compact land footprint, and local infrastructure requirements.
Midwives who cling to past ideals of < 5 % c section rates at all costs are living in lala land, and are at higher risk for being sued, if they do not follow the midwifery laws impeccably.
When we say comparable, we mean broadly the same outcome so that the tax consequences of pooling does not distort the economic or social decision to pool the land because the tax cost of doing so is higher when compared to the tax consequences of adopting the traditional route.
11:41 - Benefits will continue to be capped, housing supply increased, home ownership increased, sales of high value government land increased, more promotion of Help to Buy, more academies and free schools, more apprentiships, more help with childcare costs, and a bill to prevent modern slavery.
Among those, Rochester landed high on a list of potential sites nationally for its low cost of living and access to employees.
«When I talk to people involved in commercial real estate, and I don't have the exact number, but they're saying land costs are astronomically high, and taxes are one of the big reasons why it's very difficult to build affordable housing,» Flanagan said.
Taking away land prices, the cost of the actual build is generally going to be in the high tens, it not hundreds of thousands, so the bricks are not worth «feck all».
This administration has broken the jinx of fertilizer shortage and its high cost and has put land clearing for agriculture on a priority.
Thomas Tafuri, land records chairman of the New York State Land Title Association, said that while he had no statewide study, he was certain that Nassau's closing costs will be the highest in the metropolitan region of New York City, Westchester, Suffolk and Nasland records chairman of the New York State Land Title Association, said that while he had no statewide study, he was certain that Nassau's closing costs will be the highest in the metropolitan region of New York City, Westchester, Suffolk and NasLand Title Association, said that while he had no statewide study, he was certain that Nassau's closing costs will be the highest in the metropolitan region of New York City, Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau.
«Because of our high cost structures here starting with land — let alone utility costs, taxes and everything else — the Town of Southold's agriculture can't afford just to be a raw crop commodity agricultural industry anymore,» Mr. Baiz said.
But given the high costs of land and construction, without 421a, there's little incentive for the real estate industry to build new projects.
In other words, London's high housing costs subsidise the lack of new homes on green belt land.
They argue that taxes and land and construction costs in New York are the highest in the country.
Low - cost, high - benefit efforts look promising in at least three major areas: improved energy efficiency, energy technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable land use.
Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the paland three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the paLand in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.
These costs ranged widely, as they were based in part on the probability that a given parcel of land would be converted to agriculture, but they reached as high as $ 927 per hectare in the easternmost portion of the reserve where soybean farming is present and profitable.
The advantage of having a lower generator and consequently a lower center of gravity helps lower installation costs on floating platforms in the ocean, where wind speed is typically higher than on land, observed Veers.
At the same time, farmers face unprecedented challenges of climate change, high oil prices driving demand for biofuels, and rising costs of land and water.
The study, which involved experiments in supermarkets, shows that the higher prices consumers were willing to pay for conservation grade palm oil — akin to Fair Trade programs — more than made up for companies» costs of providing conservation land.
Of the many possible methods, forestation and land use are the only ones worthy of attention, as the other methods involve technical problems and the costs would rise to high.
The simple truth is that the animal - oriented agricultural system as it has evolved over two centuries in America makes a more efficient use of available land to provide essential, high - quality protein, with fewer surplus calories, and at a lower cost, than any other system that has presently been devised.
«London boroughs are working with schools to expand the number of places they can offer, but the higher cost of land and construction in the capital means this is often difficult and expensive.»
On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.
Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.
The Land Rover Freelander 2 is good to drive, has a strong image and comes with excellent engines, but used prices and running costs tend to be high, plus it doesn't have the best reliability record.
In addition, you'll be able to snag this model for much less than the cost of a new Land Rover, which is a win - win for drivers seeking a true, high - quality SUV.
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