Tbilisi Mayor says 132 families officially register real estate for symbol price

Tbilisi Mayor says 132 families officially register real estate for symbol price

Tbilisi Mayor says 132 families officially register real estate for symbol price … The families had faced problems with registering their real estate for many years. Many of the people are internally displaced. Kaladze said that the families had to pay a symbolic price, GEL 1, for registering their property.
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Japan's MUFG to buy 73.8% stake in Indonesia's Bank Danamon

[TOKYO] Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) said on Tuesday it agreed to buy 73.8 per cent of Bank Danamon Indonesia, as it looks to build a foothold in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. MUFG said it aimed to buy up to 100 per cent in the lender, which would value the deal at over US$6 billion,
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After two record years, what the signs tell us about 2018 D-FW home market

Dallas-Fort Worth has one of the hottest housing markets in the country. Five years of rising home sales and soaring prices have put the local residential sector into uncharted territory. While there's no sign of a price bubble or prospect for a crash, 2018 is likely to bring smaller gains for D-FW's home
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A Bond Trade to Watch in 2018

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began issuing these securities, which are bets that homeowners won't default, back in 2013. Each CRT bond is linked to a pool of home loans that have been packaged into mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by the two government-sponsored enterprises. If those
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What Analysts Expect from Home Depot's Revenue in Next 4 Quarters

Let's look now at Home Depot's macroeconomic activities. The rise in the housing price index, growth in home sales, and a lower unemployment rate are expected to drive sales in the next four quarters. The rise in home prices is expected to encourage owners to spend more to upgrade and remodel
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NEW: Baseball standout pays off parents' Jupiter home as Christmas gift

Pavin Smith (middle) watches TV with his mother, Pam, and his father, Tim, at their Jupiter home on Monday, June 12, 2017, when the Arizona Diamondbacks chose Pavin with the seventh-overall selection in the Major League Baseball Draft. On Christmas Day, Pavin repaid his family by paying off the
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FHA faces uphill struggle to win lenders back

Bankers are still stung by the hefty fines assessed by the Department of Justice for Federal Housing Administration loans that went bad during the financial crisis. “There are lots of fixes that need to be made at HUD,” said David Stevens, president and chief executive at the Mortgage Bankers Association
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Regulators Give Local Bank Outstanding Rating

Aberdeen, S.D.—Dacotah Bank has been given an Outstanding rating for the firm's performance under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The CRA guides bank examiners to evaluate a bank's efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities through sound lending and good business judgement.
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TS-iPASS-like policy mooted for real estate projects

Even while highlighting the policy measures Telangana government has initiated for industrial development and the demand they are likely to propel for realty, a research report by JLL, a premier real estate services firm, has called for a policy on the lines of TS-iPASS for real estate projects. Besides a
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Analyzing the Blackstone Group's Real Estate Division

The Blackstone Group's (BX) real estate division garnered total revenue of $2.4 billion in the first three quarters of 2017, compared to $1.5 billion in the same period of 2016. This rise was mainly helped by rises in the company's investment income, performance fees, and total net management fees.
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Fiat Chrysler Recalls Almost 1.8 Million Ram Trucks for Shifter Issue

Fiat Chrysler is recalling almost 1.8 million Ram trucks because they can start rolling without the driver's foot on the brake—or even without the key in the ignition. The issue centers on vehicles with a shifter on the steering column, which can leave “park” without the usual safety steps. The recall mostly
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How is VAT applied to banking services?

And finance facilities with profit rates in the case of Islamic banking are exempt. Thus products such as loans, mortgages, credit cards etc are in the VAT exempt category. Despite the general rule that most financial services are in the exempt category, the law specifies that on some services customers
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Tesla Built a Giant Battery to Fight Power Outages in Australia. And It's Already Working

Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., at an industry event in San Jose, California, on March 17, 2015. David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images. By Aric Jenkins. 1:56 PM EST. The backup power system recently installed by Tesla in Australia — the world's largest
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Fairfax Mortgage Investments Paves the Way for Mortgage Seekers with Bad Credit

Applying for a home mortgage with a bad credit is a guaranteed loan denial. But this is not the case-if only people know what to do! Thus, Fairfax Mortgage Investments, one of the leading mortgage investment companies in Northern Virginia, launched the Mortgage Seekers with Bad Credit blog series.
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ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) Lowered to “Sell” at BidaskClub

BidaskClub downgraded shares of ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research note issued to investors on Saturday, December 16th. Several other research analysts also recently weighed in on ICFI. ValuEngine downgraded shares of ICF International from a buy
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Home Prices Are Still Rising

Two new data reports have reaffirmed the year's most predictable housing news story: Home prices are going up. … The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 6.2 percent annual gain in October, up from 6.1 percent in the previous month. The 10-City Composite
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Housing Demand Cools Over the Autumn

“Three years of low inventory is taking its toll on buyer demand in terms of tour and offer activity,” said Redfin Chief Economist Nela Richardson. “People still want to buy homes, especially before mortgage interest rates increase and prices rise even more. But there just aren't enough homes for sale,
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Blockchain Is Pumping New Life Into Old-School Companies Like IBM and Visa

Demand for the technology, best known for supporting bitcoin, is growing so much that it will be one of the largest users of capacity next year at about 60 data centers that International Business Machines Corp. rents out to other companies around the globe. IBM was one of the first big companies to see
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A Struggling Hyundai Jumps On The Crossover Bandwagon To Reverse Its Fortunes In 2018

A Hyundai Motor Co. employee inspects a Genesis G80 sedan at a company dealership in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 23, 2017. (Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg). 2017 was a ho-hum year for U.S. auto sales. It's destined to be the first annual decline in sales since the Great Recession.
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'Aggressive' CFPB Enforcement Easing Under Mick Mulvaney, Analyst Says

The CFPB is now a “kinder and gentler” agency, as it appears the compliance and legal risks to companies are now “lower,” Groshans said in a research report. The agency doesn't intend to assess any penalties to companies who don't meet the new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data collection
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