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...Doug Middleton will continue to run the firm’s investment property unit....
...(The 16th-century possessió of Mirabó, now a fine agroturismo run by owner Ignacio Ozonas, was my lodging here.)...
...The company had some $188m of cash on hand at the end of September to weather a downturn, S&P and Moody’s data showed. Publicly traded fitness chains have also been hit....
...“Not many people who ranch for a living buy ranches any more,” says Sam Middleton of Chas. S. Middleton & Son, a Texas-based brokerage....
...The value of a property depends as much on the ability of people to pay for it, ie on the health of the economy, as in the actions of the property owner....
...He could not run in 2004 because it was to be George W Bush’s second term. So Mr Giuliani began gearing up for the 2008 campaign. He did so by courting Mr Bush’s Texas supporters....
...Simon Cunliffe-Lister, whose family seat is Burton Agnes Hall, an Elizabethan stately home in Yorkshire, has run a jazz and blues festival for the past 12 years....
...About 30 per cent of the 300 or so flats are owner-occupied, according to Southern Housing Group, the housing association that owns the site, but they rarely come up for sale....
...When asked whether he is tempted to join the trend of property owners remodelling for other uses, he says: “We are so far from going residential.”...
...As a result, property owners are left with hefty principal payments to creditors, leading to defaults....
...Elsewhere, the F&C duo also hold Blue Capital Reinsurance, a fund that buys insurance contracts protecting property owners in the event of disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, storms...
...CVC, the owner of Formula One, collected €10.5bn in seven months, when Apax spent almost two years on the road to secure €5.8bn....
...I was twice the president of the South Indian Sugar Mills Association and I’ve been president of the India Sugar Mills Association.”...
...On the Run is an eye-opening book, full of beauty and sorrow, that challenges most people’s assumptions about policing and inequality in America....
...Mr Thiam, appointed chairman of the Association of British Insurers last year, says he finds the UK generally very welcoming....
...It’s united by association with the HBO series but takes that as a launch point for possibly the most exciting and eclectic food publication of the year....
...Now, after 2009’s downturn, analysts are bullish once more....
...There is no guarantee of success, as the owners of St Mellion golf course found out....
...Capital Shopping Centres was the sharpest blue-chip faller, down 5.3 per cent to 386¼p after Simon Property threatened to pull its bid approach and sell its 5.1 per cent shareholding....
...For property crimes – largely burglaries and thefts – Kennesaw recorded 555 while Dalton had 1,124 and Hinesville 1,802....
...But the Obamas settled on a 28.5-acre property, Blue Heron Farm, in a more rural area of the 220 sq km island, on a finger of the Tisbury Great Pond....
...The first clue that things were a little different here was the drive into the property....
...There is one small group of owners who lucked out with Freddie and Fannie – the subordinated debt holders....
...Aviva, owner of Norwich Union, yesterday submitted an improved reattribution offer to Ms S. The clear subtext was that it had waited long enough....
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