Real estate signs won't be exempt from ban

Despite rejecting the proposed ordinance, and thus the real estate sign exception, the council did indicate it would be open to compromise with realtors as well as other private interests and perhaps bring forth another possible ordinance revision. Such an ordinance could include allowing signs to be
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Regal Entertainment Group, the second-largest theater chain in the U.S., has agreed to sell itself to British exhibitor Cineworld Group in a deal valuing Regal at $3.6 billion, the company said Tuesday. Cineworld, Britain's biggest cinema operator, would pay $23 a share for Regal, which runs 561 theater
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DOHA, Dec 5 (Reuters) – There were no net outflows of funds from Qatar's banking sector in November, the head of economics at Qatar National Bank, the country's largest bank, said on Tuesday. Institutions and investors from other Gulf states pulled billions of dollars of deposits out of Qatari banks in
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has sent a subpoena to Deutsche Bank to share any information on accounts held by President Trump and his family as his investigation into any possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian government continues, according to Reuters news service. Reuters
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Arlington Asset Investment logo Vanguard Group Inc. grew its stake in shares of Arlington Asset Investment Corp (NYSE:AI) by 1.0% in the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,104,793 shares of the financial services
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According to online mortgage broker Habito, some £35billion of British mortgage deals matured over September and October, meaning unless they remortgaged in a timely fashion, millions of people slipped off the rate they secured two, three or five years ago and are now paying their lender's standard
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While options for secured funding remain, we know from conversations with accountants that options for complementary unsecured lending are severely limited. This is because existing lending models struggle to absorb the increased cost of origination of unsecured lending versus secured lending.
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The Toronto Real Estate Board's benchmark home price index fell for the sixth consecutive month, down another 0.4 per cent from October. The index has fallen 8.8 per cent since May — the largest six-month decline in the history of data back to 2000. For the first time since 2009, the average price of a
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The banking industry is changing. We're now in an age where banks are competing on customer experience – and when it comes to making that experience better, using data to create connected customer journeys equals power. That's because data can give banks visibility and control over the whole
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The Senate Banking Committee voted 22-1 on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve board. Only Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) voted no, pointing to Powell's inclination to ease financial rules rather than making them stronger. She also criticized his
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As a mortgage loan originator right here in Brooklyn Park, MN, I've been helping home-buyers just like you secure and refinance mortgages everyday.
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Local real estate veteran Rebecca Wells has joined the local office of Lee & Associates as part of the brokerage's efforts to grow its capital markets team in the Midwest. During her more than 23-year career, Wells has executed more than $1 billion of investment sale transactions on behalf of institutions,
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In terms of real estate, the big issue is what will become of the write-offs for the mortgage interest deduction and property taxes. What we have at this stage are separate tax reform bills that have passed the House and the Senate. What we wind up with may be different, probably a compromise between
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AGNC Investment logo AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) has been given an average recommendation of “Hold” by the ten ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and three
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Mortgage rates are basically flat today after a mixed bag of economic data got released. The situation around the Republican tax bill is still in the spotlight but it could be a little while before we get any notable breakthroughs on that front. Read on for more details.
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Sign up to receive the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox, and follow @Brexit on Twitter. The dramatic unraveling of a potential Brexit deal during Theresa May's lunch with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday means she has just days to salvage an agreement – and it only gets
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In Toronto, home sales were down 13.3 per cent in November, compared to the same month a year earlier. The average house price of $761,757 was 2 per cent lower than the same month a year earlier. All the same, sales bucked the seasonal trend and rose slightly from October, to 7,374 transactions.
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Lending to U.S. private equity-owned companies hit a record high in November, with the bulk of the surge in new capital attributed to increased refinancing and repricing activity,according to Thomson Reuters LPCdata. Refi and repricing deals accounted for 81% of a record $588 billion that was
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Dougherty Mortgage closed a $4 million loan for the acquisition of Spanish Chase, a 77-unit community in Irving, Texas. The mortgage banking firm arranged the 12-year Fannie Mae loan through a partnership between its Minneapolis and Vienna, Va., offices and Old Capital Lending. The financing has
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is focusing attention on Donald Trump's business dealings, and has now subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for information on the president's banking transactions. The subpoena, first reported on Tuesday by Bloomberg, was filed several weeks ago, and asks Germany's
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