Sentences with phrase «on skyrocketing housing prices»

Many are bracing for a rapid change in Birdland's demographics once Apple Park opens, as longtime residents — many of whom are retired and middle class — cash in on skyrocketing housing prices and increased demand.

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VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government will unveil its long - awaited housing strategy on Tuesday, taking aim at skyrocketing real estate prices and soaring rents that have crippled affordability in the West Coast Canadian province, particularly in Vancouver.

In her engaging and tightly reasoned book Bright - Sided (Metropolitan Books, 2009), she shows how the positive - psychology movement was born in the halcyon days of the 1990s when the economy was soaring, housing prices were skyrocketing, and positive - thinking gurus were cashing in on the motivation business.

This puts a strain on urban communities as services try and stay ahead of the feverish growth of resource towns, and housing prices skyrocket — witness the average cost of a home in Fort McMurray (Wood Buffalo) is now a half a million dollars.

When housing prices skyrocketed last year, they entered what economists like to call a housing bubble, in which prices rise based on demand, which is great for home sellers.

The flames were especially devastating in Sonoma and Napa counties on the northern edge of the Bay Area — a region that has seen housing prices skyrocket in recent years amid a technology industry boom.