After four months of brinkmanship with her Social Democratic frenemies, Angela Merkel finally has a coalition agreement. But the cost of the deal is high, strengthening the SPD's hand in pursuing European integration and signaling the German chancellor's limits as Europe's de-facto leader.
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After Steve Wynn resigned Tuesday from his eponymous hotel company amid allegations of sexual misconduct, he's still likely to reap the benefits that come with having your name on the front door, not to mention on resorts and casinos around the world. Having served as CEO and chairman of Wynn
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CLARKSVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Creig Northrop Team, the No. 1 real estate team in the nation*, announces today that they have become Northrop Realty, a full-service brokerage that is part of the Long & Foster Real Estate family of companies. Northrop Realty will currently serve Maryland
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With over 30 years in mortgage finance, Stevens has held senior positions at Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac, as well as serving as Federal Housing Administration commissioner during the Obama Administration. Having served as CEO of the MBA since 2011, last October Stevens announced his plans to
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ZAGREB, February 7, 2018 – A real estate tax will not be introduced and I am convinced that because the value of properties has to be ascertained first, introducing that tax will not be possible in this government's term, Minister of Construction and Physical Planning Predrag Å tromar said on Wednesday.
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Are you looking for a nest egg property? The time to act may be close. Though home sales have stagnated recently, mostly because many Baby Boomers haven't followed previous trends to downsize properties after retirement, real estate trends in 2018 predict that more properties will come available
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UFC 220 in January featured a pair of must-see title fights, supplemented with a load of bouts the average fan would rather not pay to see. The same goes for UFC 221 this Saturday. Despite the company's best attempts to salvage the main event after Robert Whittaker's injury, Saturday's main card has
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Bearing the logo of recently defunct Yugra Bank, it read: âCB RF [Central Bank of the Russian Federation] â give the money back! MVD [Ministry of the Interior] â put the thieves from CB in prison!â This one-man protest was the latest in a series of attacks on the central bank following its forced closure of
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Local real estate markets have been in flux ever since Amazon announced the 20 finalist cities vying to be the site of digital retailer's HQ2 second quarters. The immediate home price increases have come at the hands of speculators trying to get in on the ground floor and crowding out would-be buyers
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This was based on gross mortgage applications reaching £2.5bn for the first time in the building society's history â up from £2bn the previous year. The mutual added that it had helped more than 5,000 first-time buyers get on the property ladder, while net mortgage lending was up by £917m, taking total
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Bloomberg News. The aid package includes $23.5 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund for recovery efforts, repairs and future mitigation. According to a summary, the budget deal also provides $28 billion for Community Development Block Grant funds for housing,
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The Federal Government has ruled out overhauling a key part of the banking sector as calls grow for major changes to deliver lower costs to the nation's bank customers. After the release of a damning Productivity Commission report on the financial sector, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday
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Las Vegas' housing market started 2018 looking a lot like the 2017 market: sales and prices climbed from a year earlier as availability plunged. Buyers picked up 2,261 single-family homes in January, down 13.7 percent from December but up 5.5 percent from January 2017, according to a new report
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“What seems to be happening is there's a supply response in terms of condominiums, but the prices for single detached homes are going up,” said Aled ab Iorwerth, CMHC's deputy chief economist. “So there is a weaker supply response there in the overall housing market.” A separate report from CMHC
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Jennison Associates LLC now owns 8,042,148 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $804,054,000 after buying an additional 236,039 … Guggenheim reissued a âbuyâ rating and issued a $115.00 price objective on shares of Crown Castle International in a research note on Friday,
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Mortgage applications reversed course again last week, rising 0.7% over prior week levels that showed a 2.6% decline in the number of individuals seeking to finance or refinance their homes, according to statistics compiled by the Mortgage Bankers Association. On a seasonally adjusted basis,
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Series 2009, LOC Freddie Mac VRDN 57583XBN1 US57583XBN12 Variable Rate Demand Note Y N/A N/A 2018-02-07 2018-02-07 2044-12-01 Y FREDDIE MAC 1.0000 7 N N/A N/A Y FREDDIE MAC 1.0000 N/A N/A N 0.0115 3435000.00 3435000.00 0.0027 N Y N Massachusetts Dept. of Trans.
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Prices are considered balanced when the index reaches zero. Between zero and 1 is considered a price boom, between 1 and 2 is considered at risk and above 2 a bubble. At the end of 2017 the index sat at 1.32, still in the zone where there is a risk of a price correction. The recent fall was driven by
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A survey by Dubai real estate firm Bayut.com shows that a whopping 97% of respondents are not interested in buying, selling or renting properties priced in bitcoin. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File). Dubai is famous for being the mecca of luxury real estate in the Middle East. It was the first market to sell a
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