Sentences with phrase «housing stock increased»

The value of the entire U.S. housing stock increased by 6.5 percent in 2017, according to Zillow — the gain in home values was the fastest since 2013 (when real estate was just beginning to recover from the Great Recession of 2007 - 2009).

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«Because we are in the hospitality and recreation business, which is largely dependent on discretionary spending,» the company's latest financial report explains, «we believe that the weak housing market, increases in unemployment, decreases in air flights to Las Vegas, decreases in the value of stock and other investments, and the general tightening of spending on business travel have all affected visitations to Las Vegas and the spending budget of our customers.»

A report from CIBC World Markets recently predicted the stock market might fall 10 % — 15 % this summer due to a confluence of factors, including a weak U.S. housing market, increasing fiscal strain, expensive oil prices, sluggish corporate earnings growth and disruptions in global supply chains stemming from the Japanese crisis.

While both Home Depot and Lowe's have benefited enormously from the home improvement boom caused by increasing home values and the aging housing stock in the United States, Lowe's has not been as adept at capitalizing on that.

The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

A company could perform poorly or go bankrupt, causing its stock price to fall, or a larger economic issue, such as the housing crisis, could cause massive increases or decreases in the value of many stocks.

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.

(9) While the number of approved requests for residential properties from China has increased in recent years, the Parliament of Australia's Report on Foreign Investment in Residential Real Estate (2014) found that Chinese purchases only absorbed two per cent of new housing stock, contrary to public perceptions.

Moreover, leverage may yet increase a good deal further, since the as - yet - untapped equity in the housing stock is still very large, and the capacity to access it is growing.

This gain reflects continued increases in housing wealth due to rising house prices in many areas of the country, as well as steady gains in the stock market.

If the new Amazon HQ2 came to town, Detroit would see moderate rather than severe rent increases, largely because of its high vacancy rate of 11 percent and its ability to add new housing stock rapidly.

As Australian housing prices have climbed, new buyers are increasingly choosing more modestly priced condominiums over single - family homes, and developers are obliging by increasing the stock.

The ratio of total household debt to the value of the housing stock has, until recently, been increasing, but remains a little below the peak of the late 1980s (Graph 28).

Washington, D.C.'s stock of housing units increased by only 2.64 % over the 2011 to 2015 period.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Any non-residents who want to buy property in Britain should be forced to prove they are increasing the stock of housing, according to a radical new proposal.

Corey Johnson worked for the GFI development team at 470 Vanderbilt, and at a West Village community forum on June 19, he made a strong case for the good work he and GFI did in increasing the stock of affordable housing in Brooklyn.

«Getting on the housing ladder» may sound like an innocuous phrase, but it in fact refers to accessing the most desirable financial asset, capable of increasing our paper wealth many times more than moving job or investing in the stock market or government bonds.

John Calcutt was tasked by former communities secretary Ruth Kelly to investigate how the government could meet its ambitions to drastically increase the housing stock.

Reform also recommended a substantial increase in social housing stock in an effort to reduce the housing benefit bill, which increased from the equivalent of # 16.6 billion in 2004/5 to # 24.4 billion in 2014/15.

«This policy risks depleting the stock of social housing further and therefore increasing the housing benefit bill in the longer term,» the report warned.

The next month, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development unveiled «Housing 2.0,» a series of proposals aimed at increasing the city's affordable housingHousing Preservation and Development unveiled «Housing 2.0,» a series of proposals aimed at increasing the city's affordable housingHousing 2.0,» a series of proposals aimed at increasing the city's affordable housinghousing stock.

On the contrary, there is much documentation of other causes, including especially redlining, disinvestment, the loss of a tax base in NYC that left with manufacturing jobs and suburbanization, the closing of fire stations and other cuts to municipal services, as well as the aging of the housing stock, increased levels of drug addiction, bad urban planning, etc..

Hartzog touted the city's «targeted, prudent investments» in the new budget, including the expansion of pre-kindergarten for more three - year - olds in the city, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among others.

Berman said he does not believe the proposal would have increased the city's stock of below - market - rate housing, which was the city's reason for changing it.

Klein presented policy proposals to preserve the nation's largest housing stock and increase the funding and construction of new affordable housing units for middle - income and low - income New Yorkers.

The embattled head of New York City's Housing Authority, the nation's largest system of public housing stock, is resigning amid increasing public scrutiny of her tenure and twin crises over lead paint and a lack of heat in city - run aparHousing Authority, the nation's largest system of public housing stock, is resigning amid increasing public scrutiny of her tenure and twin crises over lead paint and a lack of heat in city - run aparhousing stock, is resigning amid increasing public scrutiny of her tenure and twin crises over lead paint and a lack of heat in city - run apartments.

This increase the stock of available rental housing, which is good for everyone.

Lower long term interest rates increased the prices of houses and stocks, adding to household net worth.

But as the supply of houses increased, the price of the existing housing stock would decline.

One of our survey respondents ties special allowance increases to his child's initiative in researching particular investments, or in learning financial literacy terms like down payments on a house, mortgages, inflation, stocks and bonds.

A company could perform poorly or go bankrupt, causing its stock price to fall, or a larger economic issue, such as the housing crisis, could cause massive increases or decreases in the value of many stocks.

Currently, real estate investors are increasing in numbers as the return on investment of housing provides a better return than investing in the stock market.

For one thing, opportunity cost isn't the cost of stock market returns (for which 7 % seems reasonable), but the cost of stock market returns less housing market returns (2 % is conservative, since that covers inflation, but housing also increases in value with local population growth), so 5 % seems decent.

The same thing also happened to Options House, another discount broker which started its stock commission at $ 2.95, but later increased it to $ 3.95.

Invest as much into your company 401k (if you have one) or an IRA to reduce your tax burden and build wealth, invest in personal brokerages to increase your personal returns (Robinhood is great for individual stocks, Vanguard for more passive ETF investing), invest in lending club for personal loan investment, or invest in HomeUnion for those looking for income streams from housing.

If we go back 20 years, we get an 8.3 per cent gain from Canadian stocks and an increase of 4.5 per cent in the average national house price.

Combine the high value of the U.S. dollar to the increased quote of new Canadians, should the federal government increase the quota of new Canadians, and we may feel upward demand pressure on Canadian housing stock.

A network of Vermont funders, non-profits and building professionals are seeing the need to replace a mobile home housing stock that was disproportionately damaged in 2011 by tropical storm Irene as an opportunity to increase energy efficiency and access to affordable housing.

SquareOne Villages is a non-profit organization developing tiny house communities to increase the stock of transitional and affordable housing in Oregon.

President Obama has announced a comprehensive plan to bring renewable energy and energy efficiency to households across the U.S. Among the initiatives just announced is the establishment of a Passive House track by New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR)...» to encourage a significant increase in the energy efficiency of New York's affordable housing stock».

Retirement villages will continue to make up an increasing proportion of UK housing stock due to our ageing population and so we expect to see a growth in the number of similar transactions in the future.

While it was intended to protect tenants against large rent increases, once introduced, it had the well - observed effect of drying up the stock of rental housing over time, as investment funds that would have been used to build new apartment buildings went into other projects that produced financial returns that were not similarly controlled.

They were directed towards increasing the housing stock available in the social rented housing sector and were one of the means by which the state secured the delivery of affordable housing to those eligible for it.

A chronic shortage of housing stock combined with increased levels of employment has put the housing sector under stress, driving already inflated prices sky high.

In the Lords (2.30 pm) question time ranges across the right of return of Palestinian refugees, Brexit negotiations and increasing the supply of council housing stock.

When stocks, house prices and other assets increase in value, a consumer feels relatively better off and is suggested to spend more as an impulse response.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Mowed and irrigated pastures without supervision which led to 30 % increase in produce • Sprayed acres of crops of bean and cotton with fertilizers and pesticides single handedly enhancing quality of the produce by 50 % • Planned and implemented changes in the existing barn house setting and interior which were highly commended • Revealed exemplary performance in grooming race horses and earned second prize for the same in annual horse exhibition • Stocked and labeled shelves with new equipment and worked for extra hours during staff shortage

Dwindling mainstream housing stock ensures that the need is an ever increasing one.

NPARH itself had failed to deliver an overall increase in housing stock, and forward funding was significantly less than provided under this agreement, the forum heard.