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...It had $120bn of investment securities — which include its $91bn mortgage-backed securities portfolio — at the end of 2022, far exceeding its $74bn total loans....
...“We love all the local produce markets and vineyards,” says Tomalin-Hall, who works in tech PR....
...FT Weekend podcast — You may daydream about having your own vineyard in the sun. But for the FT’s Marianna Giusti, who is actually set to inherit one, it’s more of a nightmare....
...The government is expected to allocate €30mn euros to get Emilia Romagna back on track, and tax and mortgage payments of flood victims will be suspended....
...If you were a tech founder they would help you fund your mortgage at your house in Palo Alto. They would be the bank you went to for a loan to buy a vineyard in Napa....
...It would be forced to recognise the loss if it sold the mortgage bonds....
...Climate change has enabled vineyards in regions such as the UK and Denmark. Food insecurity is exacerbated by water shortages....
...It lent billions of dollars to wineries and vineyards where it could network with clients and send wine to its customers’ parties....
...The couple own the Roy Estate vineyard in Napa Valley, which sells wines that go for more than $500 a bottle to those who can get themselves past the waiting list....
...“I could pay my mortgage off with the Booker gold and be debt free.”...
...And that’s on top of the squeeze from lower yields, and changes to stamp duty and mortgage tax relief. The misery for landlords continues....
...Knight Frank is marketing Il Moro, a seven-bedroom farmhouse with 12 hectares including vineyards in Montalcino for €6.5m....
...She goes from the international Davos set to the Martha’s Vineyard set to the Oakland set to the Hillary Clinton friends to the Obama friends. The overlapping circles are pretty amazing.”...
...Will you still be paying off your mortgage at 70? One in seven UK homeowners say they will still be paying off their mortgage at the age of 70, according to a new research....
...I had schlepped round Florence, felt Jamesian in Venice, almost driven off a vineyard wall in Montepulciano. Now it was time for Rome....
...This was backed by a short term $500m syndicated mortgage loan led by Deutsche Bank....
...One royalty cheque from Holland in 2007 was so large I was able to clear the mortgage against the house. Slow down?...
...At the time the former head of MetLife was tapped to lead the US insurer, laid low by terrible mortgage bets, he was three years into a blissful retirement running a vineyard in Croatia....
...During conversations on the drives between vineyards and on the streets of Colonia and Buenos Aires, I learned more about the people in my group than I would have in the classroom alone....
...When I left at 38 I would have been on £25,000 a year, and my pension was £5,000, which was some help but not enough to pay the mortgage....
...She says her bank turned down her request for a mortgage because her employment contract did not offer sufficient guarantees against dismissal, so she had to turn to her father....
...France is protecting its vineyards by banning the importation of certain plants from the Puglia region....
...And now is the time of year when those who can migrate to their holiday retreat, be it in Cornwall, Saint-Tropez, Martha’s Vineyard or the Hamptons....
...When interest rates tumbled following Greece’s entry to the euro, a beachfront apartment or village house with a vineyard suddenly became an affordable investment for middle-class city-dwellers....
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