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...Though demand for condos was weak after the financial crisis in 2009, about 9,000 new units are in the pipeline this year, says John Covert of Metrostudy, a housing research firm....
...major developers like SM Prime, Ayala Land, Megaworld, Vista Land and DMCI Homes, a unit of DMCI....
...That makes the credit arm the biggest at Blackstone, exceeding both the private equity and the real estate units in assets under management....
...“Over the past decade, the US has had some huge gains in productivity, and we have seen unit labour costs actually falling,” says Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of Manufacturers...
...And the owners of a cluster of houseboats further down the channel have been promised they can stay....
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