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...“That’s where the rumour mill came from.”...
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...“[The schools] are the equivalent of puppy mills that are just churning out diplomas,” Miller said....
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...The mill is a stunning modern stone-and-glass building....
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...The energy division also encompasses HomeServices of America, a real estate brokerage enmeshed in its own litigation....
...outlook related to commercial real estate valuations”....
...“To carry out the work, I went to the saw mill and met these master craftsmen, who were the few survivors of the boatbuilding trade.”...
...The fretful bond between brother and sister resembles that of the doomed Maggie and Tom Tulliver of The Mill on the Floss, one of the many (perhaps too many) touchstones of the novel....
...They were also quick to grasp the value of artists’ estates, taking on the estate of Eva Hesse in 2000 and then many others....
...For the estate agents trying to sell apartments in the city’s forest of skyscrapers, the new Manchester is defined by two equally slippery concepts....
...We are back to the old days of houses taking months to sell.” A few are eager to swap the Golden Triangle for the south Cotswolds’ Five Valleys, says Lindsay Cuthill of the Blue Book estate agency....
...But Luke Mills, head of UK residential at real estate advisers CBRE, said the policies could slow the flow of new urban apartment buildings — where developers like to sell a proportion of units in advance...
...Rating agencies typically treat preferred stock deals more favourably than run-of-the-mill loans....
...fast-food outlets, phone shops and run-of-the-mill retail....
...Outside of Chinese property, “no one is being forced to delever”, says Wolfe. Even in China’s real estate sector, the drop in prices has been modest compared to the plunge in sales....
...Landscape paintings, such as Frans Post’s pastoral idyll of a sugar mill in the 1650s, art-washed abject violence. Yet if art conceals, it can also expose....
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