Example collocations logo

Estate in sentence

855 examples of Estate in a sentence

Chinese investors spent far more than that – $94 billion – on real estate in the US in 2013 to 2016.
The upshot of this marriage of convenience has brought an obscure former KGB officer, a strongman whose activities gave rise to rumors of illegal enrichment and shady real estate deals, reportedly hushed and covered up in Yeltsin's Russia, to the summit of power.
Moreover, commercial real estate is beginning to follow the downward trend in residential real estate.
In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing: as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.
With financial assets failing to bring adequate dividends or capital appreciation, many investors have switched to real estate as a hedge against inflation.
Following the dot-com collapse of the early 2000’s, speculation in real estate and financial assets – enabled by cheap money – kept Western economies going.
To enhance the credibility of public finances, Monti’s government substantially increased taxes, particularly on real estate, while preserving the already record-high income-tax rate.
Funds like the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) grabbed headlines as they gobbled up assets – including listed securities, private companies, and real estate – primarily in Europe and North America.
Because many of them held stakes in state-owned enterprises before becoming financial investors, their holdings tend to be diverse, and often include those same SOEs, as well as real estate and equity stakes in listed and unlisted companies.
He exercised vast economic influence, with the Crown Property Bureau – reportedly worth more than $30 billion – controlling some of Thailand’s most valuable real estate and other assets.
If, on the contrary, bosses behave like cautious executors of a wealthy estate, their companies will soon look like museums.
Similarly, Democrats should reverse the change to the estate tax contained in the Republican tax law, which raises to about $22 million the amount a married couple can pass, free of estate or gift taxes, to their heirs.
Asset prices– stocks, commercial real estate, and even oil – are, historically, at high levels around the world.
Those who borrowed recklessly during China’s credit boom are not small private firms or average consumers (household indebtedness in China is very low), but local governments, SOEs, and well-connected real estate developers (many of them family members of government officials).
It is now increasingly recognized that significant asset-price increases (for example, in real estate or existing equities) may well be reinforced by the pro-cyclical nature of risk assessment embodied in those rules.
And, because inheriting money does little to stimulate growth, an attractive set of measures are estate and inheritance taxes.
Opponents of estate taxes offer three reasons why they could dampen economic growth: entrepreneurs will be reluctant to expand their companies if they cannot leave their wealth to their children; small firms will risk collapse when their owners die if their heirs cannot pay the taxes; and companies will flee to lower-tax jurisdictions or engage in costly and unproductive tax avoidance.
Many countries already apply estate and inheritance taxes.
The United States, for example, exempts the first $5.43 million of an estate from taxation.
Indeed, researchers have found that many elderly rich people start their estate planning only after the onset of a serious illness.
Nor is there compelling evidence that estate taxes cripple small businesses.
From 1983 to 1998, the US levied an estate tax on transfers of wealth that exceeded $750,000.
Finally, a moderate estate tax is unlikely to be a critical factor in deciding where to locate business or in where the wealthy choose to reside.
Far from being a drag on productivity, estate taxes could boost economic activity.
Unsurprisingly, estate taxes are very effective at reducing inequality.
US estate taxes have historically been higher than European; they peaked at 77% in the 1950s and 1960s.
As policymakers consider their options, there is no reason that estate and inheritance taxes should not be at the top of their list.
But, unlike then, the countries that are accumulating the capital today are not spending it on consumption – remember the endless pictures of Saudi princes buying up real estate on the French Riviera – but on investment, infrastructure, and education.
Yes, there are bubbles here and there, whether it is real estate in Shanghai and Dubai or stocks in Mumbai, but there has also been serious long-range planning that is likely to give these countries a strong position for years to come.
China has grown for the last few decades on the back of export-led industrialization and a weak currency, which have resulted in high corporate and household savings rates and reliance on net exports and fixed investment (infrastructure, real estate, and industrial capacity for import-competing and export sectors).
BackNext