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...“This won’t be the last of these stories,” said Adelaide Polsinelli, a longtime New York City broker and vice-chair at Compass....
...Its bell, which had been fashioned from an old truck engine piston, jangled as it went. Soon we were flying above Mestia towards Svaneti’s mountain giants....
...In the late 1980s, the two cousins began hijacking trucks and extorting local businesses under the protection of more powerful crime bosses....
...Combined, those factors add up to “the biggest truck hitting the [office] real estate market you can imagine”, said Chris Brett, head of capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at CBRE....
...Not surprisingly, the spot rental for containers from China to the US west coast has risen from an already high $4,000 or so at the beginning of the year to almost $10,000 in the past couple of weeks....
...In April, I flew to Bismarck, North Dakota, and found a shiny white Audi Q3 waiting for me in the rental parking lot....
...With low interest rates, house prices can only rise with inflation or if rental yields grow, she says....
...The “like-kind exchange” programme — a tax deferral that’s popular with auto rental and leasing companies — is on the chopping block under the Republicans’ new tax policy proposal....
...The rest were rental vehicles or preregistered demonstration cars....
...However, convincing lawmakers that its short-term leasing service is entirely legal has been a tougher challenge....
...The UK market, the largest in Europe compared with total car sales, was also the first to move heavily into leasing, according to GE Capital....
...Ivan Drury, analyst at Edmunds.com, an online car-pricing service, said leasing promotions boosted Hyundai’s performance....
...Strong used-car prices have encouraged more trade-ins and credit, especially leasing, has become more widely available....
...Several were helped by a sharp uptick in typically low-margin sales to car-rental operators and other fleet owners....
...They include Volvo Finance Service Vostok (Volvo cars), Scania Leasing (Scania trucks) and Daimler and Mercedes-Benz leasing subsidiaries....
...When we cast off in New York, the reed boat was already damaged – the truck driver who conveyed it to the harbour had used wire ropes to pull it out of the truck and destroyed some of the reeds....
...The US car-rental industry now earns more revenues from neighbourhood rentals than from airport kiosks, according to a recent survey by Auto Rental News....
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