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...New Labour, it emerged, would view postwar tower blocks, what the writer Patrick Wright once dubbed “the tombstones of the welfare state”, no more favourably than Thatcher or her architectural guru, the...
...“From an investment point of view, it would have been more sensible to keep the house in Oxford,” says Woodling, looking out over the farmhouse’s 11 acres, frequented by wild boar and deer....
...“Why do these people take on more risk and are willing to take less money?” asks Litan....
...New York Buyers will pay 2.825 per cent in sales taxes on a new $1m home (including 1.425 per cent in New York City transfer tax, 0.4 per cent in New York state transfer tax, and the state’s 1 per cent mansion...
...That is because it is situated in St George’s Hill, a long-established private estate of luxury homes in Weybridge, Surrey, the affluent county south-west of London....
...Fortunately, the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes most of the same figures we looked at for states at the county level. There are currently 3113 counties in the United States....
...It features six bedrooms, several outbuildings and 17 acres of land....
...The priciest homes in Cardiff are in the upmarket suburb of Lisvane, where Carter Jonas is selling a contemporary six-bedroom home with 10 acres of land for £3.5m....
...Enterprising buyers who can get in under the £925,000 threshold will have £37,000 more to splash on a new mini-manor....
...But the British Chambers of Commerce was less positive, declaring the statement not good enough for a country meant to be in a state of “economic war”....
...The Heart Broke In , by James Meek, Canongate, RRP£17.99 Meek creates a compelling and wonderfully sharp family saga situated in the contemporary bohemian hinterlands of London....
...Take Matt Elder, who lives in Festus, Missouri (pop. 11,602). When I met him in a downtown St Louis diner, he came across as a cheerful, friendly guy, not someone living under a kind of persecution....
...retriever out into the six acres of land surrounding his home, and takes in the idyllic surroundings....
...In another Ozark moment, the American Nazi party has managed to sponsor litter clearance on a length of highway over the state border in Springfield, Missouri....
...In the late 1950s, the General Development Corporation bought up vast swathes of former agricultural land in southeastern Florida around the St Lucie River....
...In the 1910s, swamps north of St Claude Avenue were drained and the Industrial Canal was constructed in 1923, resulting in the growth of the Lower Ninth Ward....
...“This logic makes perfect sense,” he said noting “the Fed is more clearly on a path that is likely to soft land the economy than any time in the last 6 months,” after the tone of recent inflation and housing...
...Conservative Charles Krauthammer backed the idea in a column in The Washington Post in 2001....
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