Sentences with phrase «of real estate speculation»

«The urban growth machine, including its enablers in public office and academia, dish out endless cover stories to camouflage their hidden agenda of priming the pumps of real estate speculation.

A recently completed passive solar museum in Ordos, China stands in a billion - dollar «ghost town,» one of many built on a wave of real estate speculation that some economists say may crash soon.

he lack of contextual zoning on most of the street combined with a ferocious wave of real estate speculation» has created a perfect storm of architectural proportions.

David Mulkins, President of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, explained to us that «the lack of contextual zoning on most of the street combined with a ferocious wave of real estate speculation» has created a perfect storm of architectural proportions.

Antonio Aledo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Alicante, warns that «because of real estate speculation and the management of public budgets based on income from the real estate business, seismic risk has been forgotten.»

If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.

While the East Village explosion was a tragedy that rocked the East Village, it merely compounds the devastation of real estate speculation that has handicapped the East Village local business community.

Here's part of a press release from the group: While the East Village explosion was a tragedy that rocked the East Village, it merely compounds the devastation of real estate speculation that has handicapped the East Village local business community.

Not exact matches

If real estate speculation continues to boil, especially in Greater Toronto, Morneau's measures «will force more volume out of the traditional banking space and... into this unregulated space,» predicts credit market analyst Ben Rabidoux, a principal at North Cove Advisors.

The signs of a classic bubble, such as a run - up in real estate speculation and oversupply, are also absent, and even though home prices are high, there is no reason to think they'll plummet.

Instead, we are seeing an even more extreme version of what negative real interest rates in the US produced: leveraged asset speculation, particularly in the biggest asset class, residential real estate.

Indeed, the B.C. government has so far balked at calls for a speculation tax by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and others, claiming it could suck as much as $ 1 billion out of the local real estate sector without having a meaningful impact on house prices.

Governor, I think some of your comments around speculation in the Toronto real estate market — of course I live there and feel it every day with agents knocking on my door.

Do you have an idea of the extent of the link between securitization and speculation in the real estate market that contributes to the rising house prices and astronomical sums in securitization at present?

Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the withdrawal of such credit leaves property markets to decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.

Quantitative easing subsidizes U.S. capital flight, pushing up non-dollar currency exchange rates Quantitative easing may not have set out to disrupt the global trade and financial system or start a round of currency speculation, but that is the result of the Fed's decision in 2008 to keep unpayably high debts from defaulting by re-inflating U.S. real estate and financial markets.

Overconfidence and the Bank of Japan's loose monetary policy in the mid-to-late 1980s led to aggressive speculation in domestic stocks and real estate, pushing the prices of these assets to previously unimaginable levels.

The elevated values of home prices in recent years resulted from a combination of speculation on perpetually rising real estate values, coupled with reckless lending.

The general U.S. market may tank due to a variety of factors, such as a combination of international and domestic events, from reports of high speculation in real estate markets to poor economic growth and growing debt.

Also at noon, the Coalition for Affordable Homes lobbies members of the state Assembly and Senate to support bills A7406 / S648 that would create a tax on real estate speculation, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

ALBANY — Last August, a lunch between the top Senate Democratic fundraiser Michael Gianaris and Real Estate Board of New York president John Banks led to speculation that the traditional alliance between developers and Senate Republicans might be eroding in the wake of dust - ups over issues like 421 - a tax credits.

«The real issue is: Are people making real estate decisions based on climate change futures, rather than sort of normal speculation?»

So begins The Cloud Sketcher, a passionate tale of love and war and art that ranges from the ice fields of the Arctic Circle at the dawn of the last century to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation in the 1920s.

The general U.S. market may tank due to a variety of factors, such as a combination of international and domestic events, from reports of high speculation in real estate markets to poor economic growth and growing debt.

Sorry, but the speculation only cut of when the FOMC got rates above a threshold that deterred speculation because positive carry from borrowing to buy real estate disappeared, which finally happened in September of 2005, when the FOMC was still tightening.

This crisis was mainly the result of loose mortgage lending, which spurred rampant speculation and even fraud in U.S. mortgage securities and real estate.

According to Gordon, another way of taxing speculation is to tax real estate sales when the seller has only owned the property for a short amount of time, with the highest rates for those who've owned the home less than six months.

From my angle, the Fed will slowly be forced to recognize that problems developed from speculation in residential real estate, CDOs, overdone arbitrage strategies and private equity are either a) too big to solve through monetary policy, without causing a lot of inflation, or b) they will try to «solve» the problem anyway, and hope that inflation doesn't rise too much.

«The sources of demand that are pushing prices higher are many-fold and the sources of investment speculation... in the real estate part of our economy are many-fold and more domestic than foreign.»

The Fed would only take away the punchbowl for modest amounts of time, so speculation on debt instruments, real estate, financial institutions, etc., could go on to a much greater degree.

However, with real estate as of late, there has been too much emphasis on capital gains (buying low selling high) or in other words, speculation.

The rest of the post includes some speculation about the source of the park's photos (Hollywood movie sets) and the reason (money laundering, real estate concerns) for the hoax.

Inspired in part by the SLG's proximity to the housing estate behind it, and the gallery's links with the residents, the works are underpinned by Kuri's reflection on the role of speculation in real estate.

Through a series of conversations with the city's leading artists and intellectuals, Maltzan explores such issues as real - estate speculation and future urban development, infrastructure, resources, site density, urban experience, political structure, commerce and community, attempting to transform our understanding of how each affects present - day Los Angeles.

If last year's overnight whitewashing of graffiti haven 5Pointz in Queens revealed anything, it's that the fleeting form of graffiti tags is as susceptible as ever to the whims of property owners and real estate speculation.

In conjunction with this show, another exhibition called The Real Estate Show Extended / Berlin: Group exhibition on the subject of Gentrification, Real Estate Speculation and Selling out the City was presented at Kunstpunkt Berlin.

The Real Estate Show was a Colab sponsored illegal occupation exhibition on the subject of landlord speculation in real estate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of ManhatReal Estate Show was a Colab sponsored illegal occupation exhibition on the subject of landlord speculation in real estate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of ManhEstate Show was a Colab sponsored illegal occupation exhibition on the subject of landlord speculation in real estate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhatreal estate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhestate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

When asked about the cause of these fires, the scientist said it was in part real estate speculation and in part the lumber industy which first planted the wrong trees and then basically gave up on the woods alltogether when the market collapsed (or something like that).

Extensive top - of - market real estate speculation arises in regions that, long range models predict, will see relatively minor adverse impacts.

The conventional economic wisdom is that financial speculation, mostly in real estate combined with a decade of overspending and a lack of savings in general, led to a bubble in economic growth (e.g. GDP) that then popped resulting in a recession.

A real estate expert, known by his surname of Chen, from the Wenzhou region, established a team of twenty real - estate speculation investors almost a decade ago.

A real estate expert, known by his surname of Chen, from the Wenzhou region, established a team of twenty real - estate speculation investors almost a...

It was precisely in the last months of 2013 that real estate speculation began to decline in China thanks to the threat (ultimately carried out) of higher property taxes.

«This is not a time for speculation of what she should've done, but a time of reminder for what we all need to be doing to assure safety in this industry,» Brian Copeland, GRI, CIPS, of Village Real Estate Services in Nashville, Tenn., writes on Facebook.

So our governments have created a flurry of economic activity around real estate speculation.

Thanks to more stringent loan underwriting guidelines, the days of pure real estate speculation are behind us.

(Sunday, May 24/15) Both Mayor Gregor Robertson and uber condo marketer Bob Rennie, a key Robertson supporter, have come out in favour of imposing a housing speculation tax as a means to dampen the influence of investors in Vancouver's red - hot real estate market.

As economist John Tuccilllo recently said, the number one trend in America right now is skepticism and the result has been an increased degree of speculation in all types of decision making... including selecting a real estate agent or company to work with.

The presidential election has unleashed a frenzy of speculation as to what exactly a Trump administration might mean for the commercial real estate industry.

After weeks of speculation, Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy most of Lend Lease's U.S real estate investment arm.