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...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...I wanted to be involved in ag, but the price of land was outrageous, and I realised there's no chance that I could ever farm traditionally, simply because I couldn't afford to buy the land or lease the land...
...Oh, for a time machine. In 2000, the average price of an acre of prime arable land in the UK was around £3,000. By 2015 that had leapt to over £9,000....
...She doesn’t agree with everything he’s done, notably the stimulus cheques of up to $1,400 that he sent out to Americans earning less than $75,000 a couple of months after he took up office....
...Today the population peaks at about 5,000 and fewer than 1,000 people are thought to live in Idlewild year-round. But Stubbs says that to reduce its meaning to numbers would be a disservice....
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...“In terms of evacuation centres, they have to be run differently because they can’t have 1,000 people in the same place.”...
...In Ulster County, 599 homes were sold for more than $300,000 in the year to mid-December; in 2018 that number was 498 homes; in 2017, 455, says the Hudson Valley Catskill Region MLS....
...But personal income in the state grew by just 1.5 per cent between 2016 and 2017 — less than half the 3.1 per cent growth rate experienced across the US, and the seventh lowest of the 50 states....
...In Pennsylvania, gas gathering lines alone are on track to cover 1 per cent of the land area by 2030, according to a pipeline task force....
...But, at 1,000 pages, this is a formidably detailed, closely argued study of the making of one of the giants of 20th-century foreign policy....
...It is a dilemma facing farmers across the Central Valley, many of whom have shifted from crops such as tomatoes or peppers to more valuable almonds or other trees that cannot be left unwatered in a dry year...
...Or the last dodo. But the last passenger pigeon’s death can be dated more or less exactly: the afternoon of September 1 1914. There was something else extraordinary about this extinction....
...“You could almost make the case that we’re worse off than we were at this time last year,” says John Robinson, who grows corn and soyabeans on 1,000 acres in Piatt county, Illinois, one of the most productive...
...Of the 100 largest housing markets, 15 are up by more than 10 per cent on a year ago; in 32 others, including big cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia, prices fell or rose by less than 3 per cent....
...The ark will be built on an 800-acre site close to Williamstown, 40 miles south of the office, and a study for Answers in Genesis predicted that it would get 1.6 million visitors in its first year....
...In the Cotswolds we sold land this year for around £11,000 per acre,” reports Clive Hopkins, head of Knight Frank’s farms and estates sales team....
...Donleavy lives at Levington Park, a house on 177 acres of land on the outskirts of the city of Mullingar in County Westmeath in Ireland. Mighty oaks and horse-chestnuts stood alongside the drive....
...Today, less than 1 per cent of the rail traffic that clanks through town day and night actually stops in Springfield. We passed four, five, six-bedroom houses on sale for $150,000-odd....
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