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An area or portion consisting only of housing units. (source: EPA)

CMHC Releases Comprehensive Report on Housing in Canada  -  22 Oct 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),The residential sector is responsible for 60 per cent of water consumption and 17 per cent of energy used. - CMHC's EQuilibrium sustainable housing

Residential property sector to come under scrutiny  -  Oct 12, 2007
Money Marketing,...of the Office of Fair Trading, and will focus on the standards, regulation, and redress of the residential sector and the buying and selling process.

Non-residential construction boom runs through fourth straight year  -  Oct 12, 2007
The Canadian PressThe statistics agency said growth in the non-residential sector has been on an uninterrupted growth streak since the middle of 2003.

obg releases the market: real estate 2007, its ground-breaking new ...  -  Oct 17, 2007
Al-Bawaba,...in a shortage in the residential sector, and Oman, where the industrial zones in Sohar and Salalah have raised demand for offices, hotels and houses.

Commercial update  -  Oct 19, 2007
Mortgage Introducer,This includes seasoned buy-to-let investors who are starting to get anxious about squeezed rental yield in the residential sector.

Construction Spending Slack Picked Up By Non-Residential Sector  -  Oct 1, 2007
MortgageNewsDaily.com,There was actually some good news in real estate on Friday. The bad news was it had nothing to do with the housing slump or the mortgage crunch.

Building permits rise in August as residential sector remains strong  -  Oct 4, 2007
Vancouver Sun,..."Contrary to the situation in the United States, the residential sector remained clearly healthy in Canada," it said. "The comparison of non-seasonally

Exports pickup the slack in the US economy  -  Oct 20, 2007
Times Online,Growth in the construction of commercial properties is picking up some of the slack in the residential sector. Exports are growing at a double-digit rate,

India Offers Enormous Opportunity for Commercial Retail  -  Oct 18, 2007
SBWire (press release),In the last 2-3 years real estate has plummeted to new highs with around 100 % to even 600% increase in the rates of both commercial and residential sector.

United Kingdom: Property Bulletin, October 2007 - Has The Sun Set ...  -  Oct 18, 2007
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription),As far as the residential sector is concerned, people are a little less optimistic. Although 48% of respondents are very or reasonably confident about the

Zimbabwe: Masvingo Signs MoU  -  Oct 16, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Engineer Alois Chaimiti said the latest investment in Masvingo's residential sector was a welcome move that would greatly reduce the housing backlog.

GCC real estate projects cross $1 trillion mark  -  Oct 20, 2007
Gulf Daily News,The total value of these projects including commercial and residential sector buildings such as educational establishments, healthcare facilities, cinemas,

A tale of parks kilometres apart  -  Oct 18, 2007
Daily Times,The park that is as big as a full residential sector has seen a lot of controversies since its formal inauguration with the residents opposing the opening

Real Estate To Remain Hot  -  Oct 18, 2007
XPRESS,The sector to see the largest spike was the residential sector, with a 30.4 per cent increase from 2000 to 2005. In 2006, there was a decrease of six per

Real Estate Round-Up:  -  Oct 17, 2007
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,The non-residential sector, which includes office construction, has experienced the biggest percentage increases in recent years, a trend the group predicts

Sheffield Real Estate Looks at Eastern Europe, Mulls US$100 ...  -  Oct 18, 2007
Al-Bawaba,Sheffield Real Estate, developers of flagship Marina 101, today announced eyeing Eastern Europe for investments in the residential sector.

Real estate notes  -  Oct 20, 2007
Denver Post,In reality, the US residential sector accounts for 25 percent of total energy use, according to a study by global consultant McKinsey & Co.

Power Producer Admits Philippine Energy Law To Raise Power Rate  -  Oct 12, 2007
AHN..."But even then, both sectors pay the same amount of systems loss as the industrial sector subsidizes the residential sector," he added "But with the full

Diversity is crucial for Irish wealth creation  -  Oct 10, 2007
Western People,...“There has been a definite slowdown in the residential sector and that was to be expected. We were never going to have a sitaution where property prices

Middle East real estate: when will the boom end?  -  Oct 10, 2007
AME Info,The capital of the region's biggest economy also exhibits strong growth in the residential sector with occupancy at 92 per cent, according to Colliers,

US commercial property set for tough year  -  Oct 18, 2007
MSNBC..."The fall-out from the subprime mortgage meltdown in the residential market has seeped into the non-residential sector, causing project delays and a

To buy or not to buy commercial property  -  Oct 11, 2007
Gulf News,...buying property in Dubai, luxury apartments and villas are the obvious choice, but there is an increasing opportunity outside of the residential sector.

Buy-to-let keeps on growing  -  Oct 10, 2007
Assetz News,...for borrowers with expectations of an interest rate cut, perhaps as early as November," which may offer a change of fortunes in the residential sector.

Dubai's residential property market 'acts like an oligopoly'  -  Oct 11, 2007
Khaleej Times,Like the residential sector, the office sector has also seen an undersupply of units. This has been reflected in occupancy rates of between 97 per cent and

Mohawk Industries, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Earnings  -  Oct 18, 2007
CNNMoney.comIn the fourth quarter the slowing housing and tightening credit markets are forecast to continue to negatively impact the residential sector.

Commercial, residential contracts down 50% in August  -  Sep 25, 2007
Bizjournals.com,The large drop in contracts outpaced even the lagging residential sector, where contract value fell 49 percent to $95.7 million, compared with $186.7

Reliable's Technology To Monitor And Control Residential Energy Use  -  Oct 10, 2007
Ecolog.com (subscription),There are low-cost devices available now for the residential sector that monitor heat, power or water consumption, but intelligent systems with devices that

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY...HOW TO SURVIVE THE SLOWDOWN  -  Oct 8, 2007
Accountancy Ireland,It is expected that a large number of jobs will be lost in the residential sector within the next two years. This presents severe challenges for

Non-residential building construction spending flat in Q3  -  Oct 12, 2007
Ottawa Business Journal,..."Growth in the non-residential sector has been on an uninterrupted upward trend since the middle of 2003," the report read.

Construction sector records solid growth  -  Oct 7, 2007
The Age,The construction industry in Australia has experienced its strongest rate of growth in more than a year, underpinned by an improvement in house building and

BIS Shrapnel's Investment Confidence  -  Oct 15, 2007
ABN Newswire (press release),The forecast says the residential sector is likely to provide some offsetting stimulus to the slowdown. A shortfall in new dwellings in the key Brisbane and

Fed Most Likely on Hold at October 30−31 FOMC Meeting  -  Oct 5, 2007
FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market,Total hiring in construction fell 14000 in September, inclusive of gains in the non-residential sector and losses in the residential sector.

South Africa: Property Market Feels Squeeze of Rates Spiral  -  Oct 15, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."As far as the residential sector is concerned, I think this rise in interest rates could force people to slightly down-trade their properties.

Cityscape Leads Way to Creating New Markets - UAE  -  Oct 18, 2007
Middle East North Africa Financial Network,...developers of flagship Marina 101, announced yesterday that they are eyeing Eastern Europe for investments in the residential sector.

Ailing Celtic tiger?  -  Oct 12, 2007
Economist,Ireland's property market is already showing signs of a correction. Estate agents report prices down in some areas by around 10% this year, and shares in

Q3 investment property sales double to S$16b; office sector ...  -  Oct 11, 2007
Channel News Asia,The residential sector contributed S$6 billion, or 37 per cent, of sales due to the active collective sales market. The industrial sector, which was largely

A profile of Malaysia’s housing industry  -  Sep 29, 2007
Asia Property Report,According to the Ministry of Finance´s (MOF) Economic Report 2007/2008, the residential sector moderated in 2006 following higher inflation and interest

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뉴스핌,Beyond the residential sector, there is a sizable nonresidential component in the real estate economy. The determinants of new construction of

A new Motor City  -  Oct 20, 2007
London Free Press,The residential sector followed suit with $47.7 million worth of new home construction last year, the second highest year on record behind only the boom

Property gold mine  -  Oct 13, 2007
National Post,Of this new capital raised, 64% went into the residential sector, says Fernando de Faria, director of CB Richard Ellis Ltd. in Sao Paulo.

Amending power law could be disastrous, Lopez group warns  -  Oct 15, 2007
Manila Standard Today,He said that the effect of the power rate hike on residential sector due to increased charges in the systems loss would only be short-lived once the Napocor

New Survey Finds Most Americans Incorrectly Believe Cars and ...  -  Oct 3, 2007
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung),In reality, the US residential sector ranks as the single largest energy consumer in the world, and homes worldwide account for 25 percent of TOTAL energy

Rising GHG levels ring alarm bells  -  Sep 29, 2007
Newindpress,Interestingly, the highest level of emission is noticed from the residential sector during the period of estimation. During 2000-01, the GHG emission from

Market Watch  -  Oct 1, 2007
Mortgage Solutions,...nName: Fahim Antoniades 4Those who have been long in the industry will recall that the residential sector once subscribed to a voluntary code of conduct

Mohawk Industries 3Q Net Falls 4.4%, Hurt By Charges  -  Oct 18, 2007
CNNMoney.comMohawk also said that in the fourth quarter the slowing housing and tightening credit markets are forecast to continue to hurt the residential sector.

Holding strong  -  Oct 18, 2007
Building.co.uk (subscription),On the R&M side, the public non-residential sector took the biggest tumble. With £2.9bn of output reported in the first six months of this year,

Energy efficiency measures in pipeline for commercial properties ...  -  Sep 27, 2007
Mortgages for Business,The government''s Hip scheme for the residential sector has been dogged by controversy and delays since it was first announced, though it is thought that a

Hedge funds bet on fall in house prices  -  Sep 29, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,Grainger is thought to have been isolated because of the size of its exposure to the residential sector. There have been conflicting reports about house

Healthy Fundamentals  -  Sep 28, 2007
GlobeSt. com,...has had a broader impact on the economy as a whole, most apparently in the residential sector, but gradually moving over to the commercial side as well.

Residential market 'best for investment'  -  Oct 1, 2007
The Age,Only 58.6 per cent of respondents in Western Australia said they intend to invest in the residential sector over the coming six months - the weakest result

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