How the state is propping up China’s housing market
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The housing market's long winter faces a slow thaw and many unknowns
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Investors call for shake-up of Europe’s ‘failed’ securitisation market
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German elections: When are they, what’s being decided and how that will impact markets
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‘No longer on the margins’: how women are outperfoming men in Africa’s art market
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Where did the home buyers go? 7% mortgage rates sap any remaining energy from the housing market
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How the Charter Revision Commission Is Tackling the NYC Housing Crisis
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Revealed: how members of House of Lords benefit from commercial interests
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As federal funding dries up, states turn to opioid settlement money
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