Government subsidies, good monsoons, high land prices and a low reliance on credit have thus far sheltered these consumers.
True, there are obvious constraints on the supply of housing caused by high land prices and planning red tape.
And while intensely urban areas Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Chicago have the highest concentrations of jobs, they come with high land costs.
This then makes sky high land prices worse - because local communities oppose developments making it even tougher for buildings to get built.
Due to their high land component, vineyards tend to be low cash-return businesses and are generally more difficult to sell than other types of assets.
The incident highlights the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multi-story factories are common because of flooding risks and high land cost, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) acts best in high beta land but is hard to trust.
In general, capital costs are twice as high as land-based.
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Developer Prowind wants to build the 125m (410ft) high turbines on land close to the villages of Birkin, Gateforth and West Haddlesey.
They turned down the application by ABO Wind UK Ltd to site eight turbines, each 125m high, on land north west of the village of Roberton.
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City have reportedly made a 35m Euro bid for Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic , although the offer doesn't appear to be high enough to land the Swede.
The fire highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The incident highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
For a number of reasons, computer models with added atmospheric carbon dioxide preferentially warm the mid-and high-latitude land areas of the northern hemisphere that are ice-free, which also enhances summer melting of the relatively shallow ice in the Arctic Ocean.
Yet I have never seen Florida really tell individuals how they should live, while Kotkin opposed the up-zoning of Hollywood, a place where the high value of land shows that more people value living there than the current supply of housing allows.
Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say.
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The scheme, in Sheffield, envisages land at High Green being offered to allow the building of affordable housing.
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Joe had valued some of its land too high on its balance sheet.
Forward reconnaissance units mapped the land from high observation points, using maps and hand-held GPS devices to identify targets accurately.
They also have limited options to zone land for high-density construction, due in part to grassroots opposition to existing residential neighborhoods.
Other former coffee-plantation land, high in the mountains where the soil is rich in volcanic minerals, remains overgrown with weeds and contains barren trees.
Jelal is a Nubian, one of the people who lived in southernmost Egypt and northern Sudan until the 1960s, when the Aswan High Dam flooded their land.
Since at least the days of Teddy Roosevelt, affluent Easterners have gone back to the land in high style, buying ranches from New Mexico to North Dakota.
Unlikely as it may seem in the land of high tech, that's what is happening in the U.S. In 1990, Americans made 425 million visits to alternative healers, compared to 388 million visits to conventional doctors.
This is the land of empty high rises, slow drivers, humidity and boring baseball teams.
Scholarship providers rarely communicate with one another, so high-achieving students can land multiple scholarships.
The high cost mainly resulted from land acquisition and city regulations, Reichard says.
He was applauded by many for the strategic diversification move from shipping investment on the high seas to investing on land.
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It directed the government to suspend the return of land until the high court in Calcutta had ruled on the matter.
High oil prices and dwindling land reserves are pushing oil and gas companies to exploit hydrocarbon reserves that lie deep under the ocean.
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