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...Climate change poses a growing risk to the Dominican Republic, in common with other Caribbean nations....
...In the pre-2008 frenzy it was common for condominium buyers to put down 20 per cent of the purchase price on a building that did not even yet exist....
...Further south, Near North Side, an area that includes Gold Coast and River North, is popular with top-end buyers, with the attractions including Chicago’s celebrated shopping district the Magnificent Mile...
...Or perhaps they simply wish to be spared the sad spectacle of the common man....
...Meanwhile, residents could be saddled with higher common charges to make up for the lost contribution from the owner under restrictions....
...That appears to have been the case in the collapse of Champlain Towers South....
...Organising those repairs fell to the board of the condominium association, a legal entity staffed by volunteer owners elected by other residents, which maintains the structure and common areas of a building...
...Top bankers, hedge fund managers, commercial real estate brokers and other Manhattan professionals who might have once visited south Florida for a short spell have now been there for months....
...And so you have people literally waiting in these common areas,” Mr Salamanca said, explaining how the virus spread. “With so many people, there was really no social distancing.”...
...“Many of the very large condos that may not sell will also not rent at numbers that will cover the mortgages, common charges and real estate taxes,” he says....
...The homicide rate, at 30.8 per 100,000 people, is five times the global average and 14th worldwide, second only to South Africa among large nations....
...The shopping spree has also spilled over to other Thai cities, from Chiang Mai in the north to Phuket in the south....
...Today, few artists remain in the area, though SoHo — the neighbourhood south of Houston Street in Lower Manhattan — is still legally designated as a zone for artists-in-residence....
...At first glance the former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jaber al-Thani and the singer Barbra Streisand appear to have little in common....
...In the south Florida city of Sunny Isles Beach, Donald Trump is more than the US president....
...It is common for residents of Myanmar — both expat and local — to travel abroad for medical treatment and childbirth, with Bangkok a popular choice....
...It takes Ruchir Sharma about a minute to walk to Central Park from the soaring New York apartment tower where he lives, on the south-west edge of the park....
...He recently handled the sale of a condominium in the district for $1.3m after it was listed at $1.1m....
...“On top of traditional interest from Europe and South America, we have seen increased demand from China over the last several years.”...
...About a quarter of residential buildings in Manhattan are condominium buildings — where owners share costs for common areas — and new condos offer significant tax exemptions ● International buyers do not...
...Trusts on offer in US states such as South Dakota are a popular route to escape the new secrecy rules....
...High-end condominiums are rising along Bangkok’s neon skyline....
...survey data suggests overall demand for Bangkok property remains steady, and stronger than in the rest of Thailand, though there was a slight dip in the percentage of survey respondents planning to buy a condominium...
...The spirit of the open road has recently spawned live-in communities of enthusiasts at “private garage condominium complexes”....
...Foreigners married to Thais who want to own a house on its own plot of land can register the purchase in the Thai spouse’s name, which is a fairly common occurrence....
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