By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Housing starts took a surprising jump in June, the government reported on Thursday, but only because of a change in New York's building code that briefly obscured a drop in single-family home-building. Total starts rose 9.1 percent...
Times have certainly changed in the home building industry and experts predict more changes to come with a greater emphasis on customer service and satisfaction. More than half-a-century ago, housing starts totaled 1.9 million units, of which almost 1.7 million were single-family housing starts. In 1950 the average single-family home...
This article extends earlier research on the predictability of residential construction activity in regional housing markets. This category of forecasts is used in numerous banking, government, utility, and retail applications. To analyze forecast accuracy, quarterly frequency data are assembled from previously published econometric forecasts for Florida and its six largest...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...
ONCE people called him "the maestro." John McCain said that he was such a good Fed chairman that he should stay in his position even after his death. People held him responsible for the boom of the 1990s. The cult of Alan Greenspan was sufficiently developed that when New Republic...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/db83d2/the_new_rules_for) has announced the addition of the "The New Rules for Communicating to Boomers: Environments for Aging Webinar Series 2008 on CD-ROM" report to their offering. As the first Baby Boomers start to cash Social Security checks, more and more organizations are...
OVERSEAS You needn't be a millionaire to afford a holiday home. Laura Latham finds the best buys for less than Pounds 50k Croatia This beautiful country has become so popular with second homeowners that bargains are rare. However, you can...
GOING UP... Almost 150,000 people who bought houses since the start of 2007 are now in negative equity. A survey by CACI found that one in eight of the 1.2 million borrowers who purchased homes since then have a mortgage which is now greater than the value...
CANONSBURG, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquatech International Corporation, a leader in the field of water and waste water treatment, desalination, water reuse, and zero liquid discharge, has recently received two separate contracts from Navasota Energy based in Magnolia, Texas. The two projects are identical in design...
* Sales at Stratton Flats in Gypsum begin Wednesday, July 9 by appointment * Stratton Flats sales center opens full-time on Thursday, July 17 * Deed-restricted residence pricing starts at $171,000; non deed-restricted residence pricing starts at $344,000 * New developer brings high-quality free-market...
WASHINGTON AFP — July is usually a quieter month for busy Wall Street bankers, spent lounging poolside at the Hamptons or on a Caribbean beach, but a nagging credit crunch has cast a dark cloud over such vacations. Major US banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase...
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In this special video edition of our podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" you will learn how energy efficiency helps to protect the climate. Video at http://www.basf.com/climate Energy efficiency is the most important single future source of energy to supply the...
Before the iPod®, iBook® and IPO, therewas the original "I" that made the world flip. Founded in SouthernCalifornia on this day in 1958, the International House of Pancakes quicklybecame a national staple with its golden pancakes and family-friendlyatmosphere. In 1973, the chain officially became known as IHOP, startingthe...
Nielsen Online, a service of The NielsenCompany, today reported that Senator Barack Obama's campaign Web siteoutpaced Senator John McCain's in May, the final month of the Democraticprimary season. BarackObama.com garnered 2.3 million unique visitors duringthe month, compared to McCain's 563,000 (see Table 1). Obama's campaign placed considerably more image-based online...
WASHINGTON AFP — Iraq is "starting to take its place" in the Gulf now that the United Arab Emirates UAE and other neighbors are sending diplomats back to Baghdad and forgiving its debt, a US official said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack echoed the White House's welcome...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-7 July 2008-Danish biotech company Aresa A/S to clear landmines in Croatia and SerbiaC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Danish plant biotech company Aresa A/S (OMX First North: ARESA) said on Friday (4 July) that it has established subsidiaries in Croatia and Serbia. The new...
Almost 50 MPs have refused to tell the parliamentary authorities exactly what their office staff do and how much they are paid from public funds, it emerged yesterday. One in 13 MPs have failed to meet their obligation to submit copies of their employees' contracts of employment...
The first capitol building of Kansas sits just outside Junction City, but its town is long gone. Kansas' first territorial governor, Andrew Reeder, decided the town of Pawnee would be a good spot for the new territorial capital. Reeder had real estate investments there. After Reeder announced...
TOYAKO, Japan AFP — US President George W. Bush on Sunday renewed his call for Myanmar's military regime to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Bush said he intended to raise concerns about Myanmar as he opened talks in Japan ahead of a summit...
EQUITY RELEASE The amount of money that people are borrowing on the back of the value of their home is falling sharply. Figures for equity release were at their lowest level since 2001 in the first quarter of this year, as plummeting house prices and tighter credit...
