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...To the north is the nearly 25ha Parc des Buttes-Chaumont with its distinctive Temple de la Sybille, a Roman-style monument based on the ancient Vesta temple in Tivoli....
...Everybody else pulled back because they were terrified of that mortgage crisis,” estate agent Nikki Field tells Clarke....
...Once home to sleepy motels, it now features a row of branded, Dubai-like luxury towers that stand as brash monuments to south Florida’s property boom....
...Ensuring that the biggest deal in asset management history didn’t end up a monument to hubris was a daunting task....
...In recent years, vast numbers of flats in central Rome close to monuments such as the Colosseum and Trevi fountain have been repurposed for short-term letting by amateur landlords seeking to profit from...
...She participated in these with her family locally and speaks of a trip to Atlanta, Georgia, where friends of hers were campaigning for the removal of a Confederate monument....
...But rising house prices and caps on mortgage loans, to nine times borrowers’ salaries, are pushing more people towards renting. “There is a lack of good-quality rental apartments....
...A monument by Rachel Whiteread, sculptor of negative space, would aptly commemorate the jaw-dropping £50bn-plus that mis-sold insurance is costing UK banks....
...The changes infuriate ordinary people who struggled to repay dollar-denominated mortgages after the steep devaluation of the local currency....
...Great chunks of America’s national monuments are being opened to the drillers....
...He took out a mortgage on the property and lived in tents for two and a half years, the dairy cattle and the machinery had priority with the buildings.”...
...“Prime minister Narendra Modi is preparing to mortgage India’s symbol of independence, the Red Fort, to corporates,” said a spokesman for the opposition Congress party, Randeep Singh Surjewala....
...These include one homeowner still living there, the property being in good repair and no mortgage or other charge on the property....
...As monuments to hubris go, it’s hard to beat a ruler whose once vast empire has disintegrated into the desert’s “lone and level sands”....
...And to some rightwing Americans, the new headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a monument to all that went wrong under eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency....
...“A combination of good mortgage rates and adjusted house prices makes now a sensible time to buy.” House prices certainly have adjusted....
...Within just 20km of the epicentre, 293 historic monuments have been damaged, said an official from the culture ministry....
...The Royal Palace in Amsterdam, built in the mid-1600s as a monument to Dutch civic ambition, could also serve as a tribute to the architects and engineers who have long struggled against the water....
...The four-storey red brick building, an Edwardian monument to a thriving cotton industry, once formed the backbone of the town’s economy....
...On desolate salt flats on the far outskirts of China’s sixth-largest city, dozens of enormous half-built skyscrapers stand as a monument to the excess and optimism of the Chinese real estate market....
...And we’ll turn support for mortgage interest payments from a benefit to a loan....
...Under regulatory pressure and amid a downturn in trading, RBS announced last week that it would cut about 300 jobs in mortgage trading over the next two years....
...To cap it all, mortgages are few and far between, with only 3 per cent of nationals able to access such facilities. It has, therefore, become more difficult to unload homes....
...This activity is the political flavour of the month, but it is not the politicians’ money that is at stake, and is a deal riskier than, say, domestic mortgages....
...For now, London house prices remain a remarkable monument to global monetary policies and the pressures in the eurozone....
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