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...much, so it's not surprising to me what he's doing," says Alex Barron, a senior research analyst in the El Paso, Texas, office of Agency Trading Group. "I think there are still significant headwinds facing the housing market," he says, such as rising unemployment, potentially higher interest rates and an expected increase in foreclosures...
Despite Toll's decision to sell off shares, he still holds 14.5 million shares in the company either directly or indirectly - about 9% of the shares outstanding. "So his interest in the company and alignment with shareholder interests is still extremely strong," says Talbott McGrath. However, she believes the insider selling is contributing to the stock's underperforming many of its peers in the homebuilding sector...
...some form of regional government. During Young's reign and for many years thereafter, the possibility of city-suburban cooperation - which is to say, black-white cooperation - was close to nil. The black city didn't want white suburbanites telling it what to do, and white suburbanites had no interest in assuming the burden of a black city. (Read a TIME postcard from Detroit...
...luxury residential market, however, is getting a special boost. Local property agents say prices are being driven higher by buyers from the Chinese mainland. Wealthy Chinese have ample cash and easy access to low-interest loans because of the government's loose monetary and fiscal policies, which were implemented last year to fight the recession. Buyers are looking to invest close to home, and despite China's restrictions on moving capital beyond its borders, that often means acquiring assets in Hong Kong. (The former British colony belongs to China but has a separate system of government and a more open...
...Peter Churchouse, a director at a Hong Kong investment research and advisory firm, says he doesn't think Hong Kong's housing market is a bubble. But some analysts worry that low interest rates, high liquidity and a tight supply of new apartments could fuel irrational exuberance. Churchouse says: "I could easily see this market developing into a bubble, but it's not a bubble yet." That should be of some comfort for the buyer who just paid $3.16 million for a 590 sq. ft. apartment...