January, 2012

Analysis: Cuba’s property rights — what’s in it for foreign investors?

Email This Post By Josà Manuel Pallí, Esq. In a recent interview, the director for technical development at Cuba’s National Housing Institute explained the reasons that led the Cuban government to modify the Housing Law last November through Decreto Ley 288/11. He emphasized the need to bring order and safety to the often-haphazard internal building [...]

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Treasury 30-Year Bonds Fall Before Retail Sales, Debt Auction

Treasury 30-year bonds fell for the first time in three days before a government report that economists said will show US retail sales rose in December, helping spur the economy going into 2012. Bonds also declined as the US prepared to sell $13 billion of the securities today. Demand climbed to records at sales of [...]

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Mortgage rates dropping due to cheap bonds

A strong international demand for bonds from Canadas biggest banks is trickling through the system and pushing mortgage rates to record lows at the consumer level. The Bank of Montreal moved its five-year fixed mortgage rate to 2.99 per cent late Thursday — the lowest posted rate from a major bank in Canadian history.

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Encumbrances And Nonpossessory Interests In Real Property

Property is a legal concept that grants and protects a persons exclusive right to own, possess, use and dispose of a thing. The term property does not suggest a physical item, but describes a legal relationship of a person to a thing. Real PropertyReal property consists of lands, tenements and hereditaments. Lands refers to the [...]

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Italian Bonds Rise on Optimism Crisis Abating Before Debt Sale

Italian Bonds Rise on Optimism Crisis Abating Before Debt Sale January 13, 2012, 6:31 AM EST Business Exchange E-mail Print More From Businessweek Spanish, Italian Bonds Rise as Borrowing Costs Drop at Auctions German Bund Allure Grows as France, Austria Lose AAA Ratings Portuguese Bonds Lead Euro Declines After S&P Rating Downgrades French Bonds Rise [...]

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US Money Funds Slashed Loans to French Banks by 97% in 2011

U.S. Money Funds Slashed Loans to French Banks by 97% in 2011 January 13, 2012, 5:26 PM EST Business Exchange E-mail Print More From Businessweek Euro-Area Bank Dividends May Tumble Below Post-Lehman Low French Borrowing Costs Drop as Investors Shrug Off Downgrade Euro Decoupling as Draghi Rate Cuts Fail to Boost Confidence Euribor-OIS Spread Tightens [...]

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GENESIS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY ASSESSOR

This matter is before the court on Plaintiffs request for property tax exemption, for the 2009-10 tax year, on certain real property located in the assessors records as Accounts R186389 and R186379. The court held a telephone case management hearing December 6, 2011. Plaintiff was represented by Doreen Barnhouse, a trustee and the designated representative [...]

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SHIELDS SALE

On May 15, 2012, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock AM of said day, at First American Title Company, 419 North Second Avenue, Sandpoint, Idaho, JUST LAW, INC., as Successor Trustee, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of [...]

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Assessor wants help with property reappraisals

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Warren County Tax Assessor Angela Brown wants to bring in some outside help to work on property reappraisal. The Vicksburg Post reports (http://bit.ly/wvcfNE) that Brown, who was elected in November, told supervisors that she needed the help to reappraise a quarter of Warren Countys real property the next four years. Brown asked [...]

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