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...It is an image of the corporate cavalry coming to the rescue while federal authorities faltered....
...But for now, the question of which companies should be regulated by financial authorities remains an open one....
...Local authorities and landlords with vacant properties and run down neighbourhoods will face Armageddon if they don’t act now, so there is plenty of incentive....
...Previously, stress tests applied only to insured mortgages....
...Under the Housing and Planning Act, local authorities should consider how they can best support self-build....
...as a result but markets have been happy to fund this....
...The Rebuild Foundation has also converted a complex of 32 neglected Chicago Housing Authority apartments in the district into housing for artists and community members....
...David Partridge, joint chief executive of Argent, the property arm of the British Telecom pension fund, knows he is taking a risk....
...“Had the authorities not pressed the banking system to have more capital, we would probably be in a worse position now.”...
...That has little to do with self-restraint and a lot to do with a difficult 2010....
...The bank that 160 years previously had begun life as a general store was undone by an ill-fated plunge into property assets at the height of the US housing bubble and its over-reliance on short-term funding...
...to appropriately sized homes; And, lastly, we will for the first time introduce maximum limits on housing benefit – from £280 a week for a one-bedroom property to £400 a week for a four-bedroom or larger...
...And our willingness to undertake effort and engage in self-sacrifice is by no means constant....
...Amit Kara, UBS 1) Minority government and market fear – a hung parliament will almost certainly lift the risk premia of UK inc....
...There are also concerns over HBOS’s exposure to the UK housing and commercial property market. HBOS, with a £236.5bn mortgage book, is exposed to falling house prices and arrears in mortgage payments....
...Swiss Re, he says, would be able to take advantage of its agreement with Berkshire Hathaway, whereby it will take a 20 per cent share of all of Swiss Re’s property and casualty business for the next five...
...Over recent months, US authorities have appeared torn between their desire for Fannie and Freddie to step up their support for housing and a wish to limit the systemic risks they pose....
...Local authorities were struggling to cope. “For municipalities, foreclosures are a huge problem, because these were taxpaying properties that have become tax-eating properties....
...It paints them as fearless – if foolhardy – in their expansion, but ultimately as the casualties of a global crisis....
...A range of alternative approaches - through pooled intellectual property rights, a ”prize fund” as an alternative to patents, and a health impact fund to pay companies based on proven health outcomes - continue...
...The FBI is probing Beazer for possible fraud and the US Housing and Urban Development is examining whether its sales practices violated government-insured mortgage rules....
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