Land speculators also contributed to this by buying land cheap and selling it for expensive prices.

Land prices skyrocketed and Riverton's subdivisions expanded.

Land prices have risen dramatically in recent years, resulting in the subdivision of pastures that once served dairy farms and mid-size ranches.

In 1853, the Island government passed the Land Purchase Act which empowered them to purchase lands from those owners who were willing to sell, and then resell the land to settlers for low prices.

Land prices were rapidly increasing due to the Japanese asset price bubble, inflation increased at the highest rate since 1975, unemployment reached a record high at 3. 2 %, bankruptcies were rife, and there was political rancor over LDP-proposed tax reform.

In the 1880s the long boom culminated in a frenzy of speculation and rapid inflation of land prices known as the Land Boom.

Land prices in the area have increased sharply, but despite its increased appeal to professionals, Kensington still remains a predominantly working class, immigrant community.

Land grants to the railroads meant they could sell tracts for family farms ( 80 to 200 acres ) at low prices with extended credit.

* King of Sand Land-As the current ruler of Sand Land the king makes enormous profit by selling bottled water at high prices.

Land prices in the same period dropped dramatically, as the farm was bought for £ 11, 165 in 1858 and sold for only £ 1, 800 in 1899, losing 84 % of its value.

Land prices have risen considerably since 2001, with The Grove long regarded the most prestigious street in the suburb.

Land prices in Japan were the highest in the world at the time, and Kisho Kurokawa, one of Japan's most famous architects, has said that staggeringly ambitious buildings employing highly sophisticated engineering are still cheap, because companies pay 90 % of the cost for the land and only 10 % for the building.

* Land values can be estimated by using recent prices for similar plots of land sold in the area.

Land prices on what would become the shoreline had already jumped to $ 1, 000 an acre ; summer developments sprang up almost immediately.

Land prices needed to be high enough so that workers who saved to buy land of their own remained in the workforce long enough to avoid a labour shortage.

When oil prices spiked in 2007, Vintage notified the U. S. Bureau of Land Management of its intentions to find out if oil is contained in the Carrizo Plain.

Land prices contributed much more to the price increases than did structures.

Land would be available to all who need it and at reasonable prices.

Land around the circuit ( including a large aquatic centre, a golf course, a Lakeside Stadium, some restaurants and rowing boathouses ) has restricted access during the grand prix weekend.

In addition to commercial properties, Hongkong Land also develops residential properties in key cities around the region including Hong Kong, mainland China, Macau and Singapore where its subsidiary MCL Land is a significant property developer.

With their military mission and extensive financial resources, the Knights Templar funded a large number of building projects around Europe and the Holy Land.

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.

Although Saladin eliminated Christian control of the Holy Land around 1190, the Crusader states in Lebanon and Syria were better defended.

Following this sojourn in Morocco, together with two sons, he sojourned in the Holy Land, before settling in Fostat, Egypt around 1168.

Today, all funding for state highways and around 50 % of funding for local roads comes directly from road users through the National Land Transport Fund.

In 2006, a group of American scientists from The Ohio State University reported evidence for a possible huge meteorite crater ( Wilkes Land crater ) with a diameter of around 500 kilometers in Antarctica.

Land distribution early in the Paleozoic, around 500 Ma

Today the PNGDF is a small force numbering around 2, 100 personnel, and consisting of a Land Element, an Air Operations Element and a Maritime Operations Element.

Today, the PNGDF is a small force numbering around 2, 100 personnel, and consisting of a Land Element, an Air Operations Element and a Maritime Operations Element.

Vegetation is most abundant in Nordenskiöld Land, around Isfjorden and where affected by guano.

* PhotoGlobe-Berchtesgadener Land offers high quality photos of the area around Berchtesgaden together with GPS coordinates.

An uncut version of Stranger in a Strange Land was also released around the same time.

Despite the legal and political complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle and including the lakes in the Canadian interior as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingit.

The Talmud consists of the Babylonian Talmud ( produced in Babylon around 600 CE ) and the Jerusalem Talmud ( produced in the Land of Israel circa 400 CE ).

Ships sailing from the United Kingdom to Sydney crossed the Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean, sailing around Van Diemen's Land before turning north to their destination.

Some continental species also have tiny distributions ; for example the Black-banded Fruit Dove is restricted to a small area of the Arnhem Land of Australia, the Somali Pigeon is restricted to a tiny area of northern Somalia, and Moreno's Ground Dove is restricted to the area around Salta and Tucuman in northern Argentina.

Dor Daedeloth, or Land of the Shadow of Dread, lay around the fortress of Angband and on both sides of the Ered Engrin.

" Land of Moreh " is considered to be a Samaritan variant because " Moreh " describes the region around Shechem, where Mount Gerizim is situated.

Land that she owned around Great Bradley in Suffolk was bequeathed to St. John's upon its foundation.

In 1226 Lebus Land came under direct jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire, and around 1250 it was acquired by the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg.

Land reform was the major focus of policy as a result of China's vast rural population, around 90 % of the population were farmers.

After the victorious end to the Crusade, he lived for several years in Syria and the Holy Land, earning a living as a sailor, before returning to England around 1114 to find that Richildis Vaughan, to whom he had been unofficially engaged, had tired of waiting and had married Eward Gurney, a Shrewsbury craftsman.