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...Fide also organises global championships for schools, corporations, and people with disabilities. Puzzle 2571 Arnar Gunnarson v Ivan Sokolov, Reykjavik 2001. White chose 1 gxf7+? and drew....
...Fixed-rate mortgages, at around 2 per cent, are still relatively low, though it’s hard for Americans to get loans....
...There are also online tools to help people work out whether they can buy in certain areas, such as an interactive map provided by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation....
...The European build-to-rent market has taken off in recent years, with investors pouring in €399bn since 2013, according to Knight Frank....
...“Large banks have been a partner to the government and played the white knight role.”...
...If mortgage rates keep going up — now we’re talking about 6 per cent, two-year fixed today — if these things continue, if these rising mortgage rates precipitate a correction in the housing market, if that...
...This is also partly down to Hong Kong’s prohibitive mortgage rules that cap borrowing at 50 per cent for properties of more than HK$10m....
...“This ‘boom’ is not like the one of 2003-06, which was of the lower-to-middle end of the market and dominated by British buyers,” says Smadar Kahana of E&V....
...Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and chief executive of Fox Corporation, was an existing shareholder and retains a stake of around 10 per cent....
...Simon Gammon, managing partner of mortgage broker Knight Frank Finance, says the interest rates offered by banks on 95 per cent loans are likely to remain much higher than for, say, 75 per cent mortgages...
...A temporary stamp duty holiday that offers purchasers a tax saving of up to £15,000 has fuelled a V-shaped recovery in the housing market since May....
...Eric Knight of fund manager Knight Vinke sees this as potentially the single most destructive risk now facing long-term investors....
...He founded the team alongside Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon Rupert and chief executive of Fox Corporation....
...The effect will vary across the country’s cantons, but in Geneva from January 2020, corporation tax for many companies will be cut from 24.2 per cent to 13.99 per cent....
...Some 2.5m people are unable to afford their rent or mortgage; and roughly 400,000 people are homeless or at risk of becoming so, according to the National Housing Federation....
...Some analysts anticipate recoveries that are V-shaped on a graph, others predict a U-shaped or L-shaped pattern....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...Lentz joins from Thompson & Knight. Latham & Watkins has hired Meghan Cocci as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department....
...Debt levels are lower, mortgage regulation tighter and speculative building more modest....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...More logical would be to criticise the CFPB’s action against PHH Corporation, a listed mortgage lender, whose shares fell by a third in the summer of 2015 after the consumer watchdog increased a penalty...
...The biggest price gains there have occurred for the larger, pricier, detached family homes, says Aled ab Iorwerth, deputy chief economist, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the government-owned agency...
...This year prices in the area have reached €7,000 per sq metre, according to E&V....
...Simon Gammon, managing director of mortgage broker Knight Frank Finance, says some buyers in London had decided to rent rather than buy, in the belief that house prices were unlikely to rise further under...
...Overall, home prices fell by 3.1 per cent in 2016, according to research from Knight Frank....
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