School-building projects hampered by high cost Manila Bulletin LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The continuous rise in the prices of construction materials has hampered the construction of school buildings in this vegetable-producing province, it was reported. | The construction of more schoolhouses was intended to address the problem of classroom shortage caused by th...
Experts: Amid rising building costs, deals on new homes won't last long Austin American Statesman | Business might not be any easier for builders in the coming months. | They face rising construction costs and consumers who want better deals because they see the national housing market plummet, a local housing expert said Thursday. | For the next half of the year, builders will need to continue ...
Self-employed can set mortgage costs against tax, says HMRC Belfast Telegraph | HM Revenue & Customs has started allowing self-employed workers to offset their mortgage interest and council tax against their annual income tax bill; an expense that accountants have historically believed to be off-limits. | New guidance issued b...
House prices fell for the ninth month in a row during June to cost 3.2% ... Skynews | Prices fell in 84% of postcodes | The number of homes changing hands is now expected to slump to levels last seen in the 1970s, as the credit crunch continues to take its toll on the market, property information group Hometrack said. | The group sa...
Self-employed can set mortgage costs against tax, says HMRC The Independent | HM Revenue & Customs has started allowing self-employed workers to offset their mortgage interest and council tax against their annual income tax bill; an expense that accountants have historically believed to be off-limits. | New guidance issued b...
High input costs won’t hit realty growth The Times Of India | Pradeep Jain | From a real estate broker, Pradeep Jain, chairman, Parsvnath Developers, rose to lead a real estate company, which today is among the top five real estate companies in the ...
Oil costs up, house prices down - good news The Times | The price of oil is soaring worldwide, a "crisis" that has dominated the past week's front pages. Meanwhile, the price of housing is plummeting, a crisis that dominated the previ...
Skyrocketing building costs hit consumers Gulf Daily News | SKYROCKETING building costs in Bahrain, at the centre of the "world's most concentrated construction boom", will mainly hurt consumers already hit by rising living expenses, it w...
Errors in lien data could cost buyers The Columbus Dispatch Sloppy real-estate records in Franklin County could threaten home buyers with foreclosure and bump up the price of title insurance, title examiners say. | They're nervous that they're missing liens hidden in the Franklin County Common Pleas clerk of ...
The impact of rising fuel cost on shipping The Star | RISING fuel cost will affect cargo shipping cost and global trade said Malaysian Shipowners Association (MASA). | Chairman Nordin Mat Yusoff said the escalating shipping cost would also dent trade liberalising efforts achieved over the last few dec...
Experts: Amid rising building costs, deals on new homes won't last long Austin American Statesman | Business might not be any easier for builders in the coming months. | They face rising construction costs and consumers who want better deals because they see the national housing market plummet, a local housing expert said Thursday. | For the next...
Big Oil's 'secret' out of Iraq's closet Asia Times By Pepe Escobar | NEW YORK - It is not about the "war on terror". It is not about weapons of mass destruction. It is not about "freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people", or to the "Afghan people". It is not about "Islamofascism". It is not about a Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Middle East to Central Asia. New evidence shows once a...
After 59 years of separation direct flights between China and Taiwan take off ... with millions of Chinese lining up to visit London Evening Standard | Historic regular flights between Taiwan and China began today, in a show of conciliation between the long-time rivals that could bring large numbers of mainland Chinese visitors to the island. | The first of the flights, a China Southern Airlines plane, landed at Taipei's Taoyuan airport after leaving Guangzhou in southern China early in the morn...
