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Dubai-based Emaar Properties, a multinational property-development firm, purchased John Laing Homes for more than $1 billion in June.(In the News)
September 1, 2006... Dubai-based Emaar Properties, a multinational property-development firm, purchased John Laing Homes for more than $1 billion in June. Based in Newport, Calif., John Laing Homes is the second largest privately held home builder in the U.S. and has been in business for more than 150 years.
The number of middle-class neighborhoods in each of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas has declined since 1970 and the number of poor and rich ones has increased, says a study released in June by the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C.(In the News)
September 1, 2006... The number of middle-class neighborhoods in each of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas has declined since 1970 and the number of poor and rich ones has increased, says a study released in June by the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C. The...
Massachusetts and Minnesota have become the eighth and ninth states to enact laws that require carbon-monoxide detectors in residences.(In the News)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Massachusetts and Minnesota have become the eighth and ninth states to enact laws that require carbon-monoxide detectors in residences. The Massachusetts law, effective in March, applies to all residences, new and existing, that use fossil-fuel-burning equipment or that have enclosed...
Regulations meant to prevent heat-related illness went into effect in California on July 27.(In the News)
September 1, 2006... Regulations meant to prevent heat-related illness went into effect in California on July 27. The Cal/OSHA rules require employers to provide outdoor workers with one quart of drinking water per hour and access to shade for at least five minutes whenever necessary to prevent or alleviate...
Coastal insurance crisis: windstorm policies are pricey and hard to find; new construction suffers.(In the News)
September 1, 2006... An ocean view--or even a faint whiff of salt air several miles inland--carries a high premium along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts this year.
In the wake of catastrophic insured losses that totaled $61.2 billion in 2005--of which $40 billion was from Hurricane Katrina...