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whilst on her death bed at her family estate, she tells her granddaughter a horrible curse that all the rest of her family are all vampires.
Jasper Whyte calls all of his associates and friends (few in number) to his house (on a night with plenty of rain, thunder, and lightning) to give away all of his estate before an inheritance tax would lessen the amount.
This story is about a rich, arrogant, spoiled nephew who is a potential beneficiary of his billionaire uncle's estate.
tom lives an unscrupulous life working for the real estate business.
The crime happens at a beach-front estate secluded from neighbors and traffic.
The real mystery is why the trustees of Dame Agatha's estate ever allowed this series to be made by disrespectful butchers.
The three females are escorted by a transplanted Texan, a tour guide in the Thai capital and a former lover of Georgia, and he becomes romantically embroiled with her sister immediately after the group's arrival at the vacated MacGregor estate, while the title character is only seen as he threatens the visitors, the big game hunter seemingly having been swallowed by the encroaching flora as he seeks his hardly elusive prey.
In the shady corner of the real estate business relying on underhand tactics, he finds no joy.
The large estate appearing near the end was Lloyd's own property.
Throw in an old estate with jungle animals, a maimed veiled lady (possibly borrowed from The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger)a murderous husband, a wife driven mad and all other sorts of wackiness that not only was never in the original story, but which just makes the whole piece unwieldy and a mess.
Bert Gordon's follow-up to his "Food of the Gods" from the previous year begins with a real estate scam headed by bitchy Joan Collins in a remote area.
The settings are boring (nondescript Dublin housing estate, Sweden).
A man (Michael Caine) wants the wife of a famous mystery writer named Andrew Wyke (Sir Laurence Olivier) and goes to his huge remote estate to ask for her.
Harris comes home to arrange for a long-distance management of his grandfather's real estate business, and discovers along the way that there is more to life than business.
Although the duo has been paid only to transport the quintet, the pair is with the girls when the fence around the estate closes, locks and electrifies.
For the “Dutch disease” and a rentier spirit prevail in WANA, and have affected oil-producing and non-oil-producing countries, ranging from migrant workers’ remittances and financial investment flows from the oil countries (mainly into real estate) to stock-exchange bubbles and foreign aid.
And the export-oriented manufacturing firms that had been stimulated and shepherded by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry were not the core around which the rest of the Japanese economy would crystallize, but rather a separate and walled-off estate.
In the US, for example, sustained political determination would help to close massive loopholes in estate planning and inheritance, as well as in household and corporate taxation, that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
Of course, with China’s household sector holding a relatively small share of equities compared to real estate, the current stock-market slump is unlikely to derail the economy.
Meanwhile, hundreds of acres of scarce urban real estate will have been forfeited as sites for white elephants.
During the 1998 financial crisis, devaluation would have hurt those who owned local real estate but had little earnings or assets in US dollars.
In this scenario, bond prices in post-industrial countries are heading for a serious fall - as are real estate prices in California, New York, and London.
So let me place my bet - which I think is only 60% likely - and say that my best guess is that world real interest rates will be high over the next generation, and that current bond prices (and real estate prices) are not sustainable.
First, unlike when the Japanese bubble bust, the balance sheets of US banks are good and real estate is not overpriced.
This blithe attitude is ultimately behind real estate bubbles where they are occurring.
In response, China turned to the domestic growth engine of credit-financed investment in infrastructure and real estate.
When those countries’ per capita GDP stood at current Chinese levels, real estate played only a minor role in their economies; indeed, the sector was often deliberately starved of credit.
This requires, first and foremost, abandoning the view that infrastructure assets fit into the paradigm of traditional asset classes like equity, debt, or real estate.
The House Republicans and the Trump administration have both proposed halving that rate, which would cause capital to shift to corporate investment from real estate, unincorporated businesses, and foreign holdings.
Moreover, off-balance-sheet lending has helped to fuel over-investment in some sectors (especially infrastructure, iron and steel, energy, manufacturing, and real estate), leading to overcapacity and priming the economy for the emergence of bad-debt “disaster zones,” which would increase NPL ratios further.
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