Sentences with phrase «number of first time»

A recent Seattle Times article pointed out that a growing number of first time home buyers are looking for their ideal home, farther outside central Puget Sound.

Unfortunately, the low number of homes for sale and stringent lending standards prevented a normal number of first time home buyers from closing on their first home in 2014.»

A very large number of first time property investors will choose to purchase an investment property that is located within 5 kms of their own home.

From an article by Rob Chrisman on Mortgagenewsdaily.com, I became aware of a new Fannie Mae program that allows a limited number of first time homebuyers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Idaho to purchase homes with as little as $ 1000 down.

From an article by Rob Chrisman on Mortgagenewsdaily.com, I became aware of a new Fannie Mae program that allows a limited number of first time homebuyers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Idaho... View Article

This sheds light on what would occur if a significant number of first time buyers are priced out of housing markets, especially in moderately priced neighborhoods.

A number of first time homebuyers are often shocked when they see the total cost of their home purchase, including the additional expenses, on closing day.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

«For the first time, scientists have attempted to account for numbers of people with biomarkers or other evidence of possible preclinical Alzheimer's disease, but who do not have impairment or Alzheimer's dementia.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

The numbers are not large by the standards of political donations but they mark the first time the industry has tilted its contributions toward Republicans, according to federal records.

First there is the idea of reliability, which in psychometrics refers to whether a test produces similar results when it's given a number of times.

BT streamed both finals last season on YouTube for the first time, increasing the number of people who watched its live coverage to more than 12 million.

With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and gymnastics gold medal favorite Simone Biles looking on, seven - times grand slam winner Williams won the first set but became frustrated as the match wore on, losing 4 - 6 6 - 3 7 - 6 (5) to the world number 62.

Anticipation of faster growth under a united Republican government has driven much of the recent gains, which a number of market watchers expect will soon put the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 20,000 for the first time in history.

Data from the National Association of Realtors indicate the number of first - time home buyers as a percentage of the market averaged 39 % from 2001 - 2007, and 42.8 % from 2008 - 2012.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

The numbers, which put the department store chain on track to post its first quarter of comparable sales growth in three years, are the start of an awaited payoff to years of investment in Macy's e-commerce firepower, says Macy's departing executive chairman and former long - time CEO Terry Lundgren.

Although IDC doesn't usually separate Chrome OS or Chromebooks from the PC category, the group did confirm the numbers to The Verge, saying «Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time in 1Q16.»

By number of deals, there were 1,854 for the first six months of 2014, compared to 1,648 for the same time period in 2013.

For the first half of 2014, the number of technology companies that received first - time financing in excess of $ 1 billion more than doubled to 14, according the report.

For RVAwonk's tweet, outside of her own audience, traffic and retweets hitting five times her account average can be attributed to a number of users, with Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta), a verified senior correspondent at Business Insider, being the first large account to share her message.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

The number of Series A, or first - round, deals also fell, to 255 from 339 at the same time last year, according to VentureSource.

Singapore's tourism authority said this week that China has become its top market in terms of visitor numbers for the first time ever.

-- Frank Talarico, Jr., president and CEO of Goodwill of Orange County, which in the last five years has more than doubled the number of adults and children it serves annually and in 2017 served more than 27,000 people and will likely serve more than 30,000 this year for the first time in its more than 90 - year history

After all, it was less than a year ago that The New York Times reported that magazine sales — in particular, celebrity magazine sales — were in a state of sharp decline, and the numbers they cited for the first half of 2014 were grim.

Ideal candidates are young or first - time business owners, who are likely to get ousted from the helm as the number of investors grows anyway, or serial entrepreneurs who are already dreaming of their next project.

There were signs that Yelp users were using and depending on the site more than they had in the past: Yelp users wrote 31 % more reviews than they did during the same period in 2015, pushing the total number of Yelp reviews above 100 million for the first time, the company said.

Then she grabbed my attention with a simple exercise that demonstrated the downside of multi-tasking: Pons showed me a row of letters and a row of numbers and asked me to transcribe them twice: the first time, row by row as they appeared, and the second time, alternating between letters and numbers.

«This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time SIGAR has been specifically instructed not to release information marked «unclassified» to the American taxpayer,» Sopko wrote.

«This is a large number of senior officials and oligarchs, many of whom are in the inner circle of Vladimir Putin and many of whom are facing sanctions for the first time as well as the state - owned enterprises,» the official said.

Sony has for the first time disclosed sales numbers for its Playstation VR headsets, telling the New York Times that 915,000 of the units have sold since its October release.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The «Bones» have been supporting the CBP mission since Aug. 6, 2016, when the first B - 1s, belonging to the 28th Bomb Wing from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, deployed to Guam, for the first time in a decade, to replace the B - 52s and deter North Korea taking part in a significant number of «shows of force» over the Korean Peninsula.

First quarter's milestones will be smaller than the fourth quarter's, but each month and quarter will have a target number based on the amount of marketing I plan on doing during that time.

Additionally, the number of closed transactions reported in the first quarter decreased by 36 percent as compared to the same time period in 2008.

Second, it saw the number of international Netflix subscribers edge past their US counterparts for the first time.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and their colleagues looked at myocardial infarction rates in Sweden since 1987 and found that the number of heart attacks rose about 5 percent during the first week of daylight saving time (called summer time in Europe).

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has officially updated its data policy for the first time in years, clarifying a number of details about how it collects and uses its users» personal data.

The first comparison is to the number of mini flash crashes in the same time window of 9:30 — 9:33 during the ten weekdays preceding October 15.

First, we controlled for the number of bedrooms in the household, and found that even then, renters had a shorter average commute time than homeowners did in 2014, as shown below.

The number rang in below expectations, marking the first time the GDP growth rate slipped under zero since the fourth quarter of 2011.

«This is the first time in 35 years where the fewest number of small business owners have told us that taxes are their number one business problem.

He said in his report that Comscore data showed that total time spent in the app had declined, although its average number of monthly unique visitors increased in the first quarter.

The company said then that it had experienced its first decline in the number of people who use Facebook on a daily basis in the United States and Canada; it also reported a dip in the amount of time spent on the platform.