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...Metallic dusk has become foggy night in southern Iceland....
...These credits prompted countless homeowners to upgrade their properties. Sales surged at Italian construction-related businesses, from materials makers to architects and general contractors....
...The average time to profitability is now seven years in sunny southern France, and 10 years in the darker north, says Mouterde....
...The Association of British Insurers, a trade body, said its members understood that the “threat of subsidence can be very stressful for homeowners”....
...Just like the shooter charged with killing seven people at the Highland Park July 4 parade, on the doorstep of the town where I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago....
...In 2019 police in southern Scotland launched a “Bothy Watch” scheme after warning the huts had begun to attract “a different type of user”....
...But then in the cluttered landscapes of southern Britain, others find something precious in these open spaces....
...The median listing price in Highland Park has increased 13 per cent in the past 12 months to $995,000, according to Realtor.com. The median sale price in September was above that, at $1.1m....
...Black and Latino homeowners are rejected at a higher rate when applying for home loans from traditional financial institutions, even when they have credit profiles similar to other applicants....
...It’s a win-win,” says David Macmillan, 66, chair of the local grazing association. But Macmillan’s crofters are not the only ones drawn to the new scheme....
...State law requires associations to have a schedule to pay for big repairs, but there is a loophole: homeowners can vote to waive paying into a reserve fund....
...At the fertile foothills of Mount Etna, Andrea Passanisi surveys his avocado grove under Sicily’s blue skies....
...As her family prepares for their new life in Chatham, Grove believes homeowners are starting to get the message....
...Highlands....
...We have a lot of start-ups,” says Denis Arroyo Alves, director at Orplana, an association of sugarcane producers. “It is a new economy based in the countryside.”...
...“A lot of homeowners flew down before the flight restrictions came in, deciding they would rather ride out the storm here than in London.”...
...Located in Pollensa, in the foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana mountains, the villa provides a perfect base for runs and cycle rides....
...The discovery of prehistoric flutes in a cave in southern Germany in 2012 has taken the history of music back further than anybody could have imagined a generation ago....
...Owners pay service charges (or homeowners association fees) that can often be offset by putting the residence into the hotel rental programme and earning an income — Rosewood residences at Baha Mar command...
...The Satemwa Tea and Coffee estate in the highlands of Malawi in southern Africa looks like the sort of Utopian working environment pioneered by the social reformer Robert Owen more than two centuries ago...
...His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $7.9bn....
...Peter Folkman, a former board member of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association who teaches at Manchester Business School, calls it the “football player problem”....
...At the peak of the harvest in November, coffee prices were at a six-year low, meaning farmers were breaking even at best, or were even in the red....
...Buying guide Homeowners pay annual tax on 10 per cent of the market value of a property (after deducting a $75,000 homestead exemption) at a rate of 0.14706 per cent Buyers using a mortgage have to pay flood...
...“You have very few people you can count on to help you,” Ms Hazlett, who founded a local homeowners’ association, explained. “You can’t really build up a base to do things.”...
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