Less tax for small businesses and more financial support for local government are on the cards as the Chinese leadership considers to start reforming the fiscal system. On August 1, the turnover tax was replaced by a value-added tax (VAT) ...
Tags: Fiscal Reform
Many home sellers are preparing to list their home on the market, either soon or in spring when the real estate market gets its annual spike. The real estate market’s up and down behavior makes it hard to determine if it will be a ...
Tags: LEDs, Incandescents
The overall Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) market in Western Europe achieved a sales volume of €44.3 billion in Q2 2013. This corresponds to a decrease of 3.8%. In the first half of the year sales volume amounted to €92.5 billion, ...
Tags: Telecommunication
Corporate Floors is pleased to announce the acquisition of the commercial assets and talent of Simply Floor It and the addition of William R. Henry. Bill brings over 25 years of commercial real estate experience to the product sales team, ...
Tags: Floors, Construction
Due to down market prices and stagnant real estate market, the majority of the associate companies have reported losses and face challenges in the first half of the year in 2013. According to data, the steel production of Vietnam Steel ...
Tags: estate market, Construction, Decoration
China’s real estate market remained strong in the first half of the year on healthy housing demand, despite government market controls and slowing growth, The Wall Street Journal reported. Data released by the National Bureau of ...
Tags: Real Estate Market
Using LEDs as light sources in vegetable gardening is a new business opportunity in Japan, according to a recent Sankei Biz report. Large Japanese real estate developers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and architecture firms are ...
Tags: LED farm vegetable garden, LED, Lights, Lighting
International home sales in the U.S. declined in the past year, but are at their second highest level in recent years and are over six percent of total existing-home sales in value. According to the National Association of Realtors 2013 ...
Tags: International home, profitable investment, major foreign economies
While there are plenty of honest remodeling contractors out there, the field has its share of bad apples. We asked our Facebook fans to tell us the craziest thing their contractors told them. "Well, all windows leak a little," a poster ...
Tags: Remodeling Contractors, Cash
British real estate developer Barratt Homes has cast eye on Chinese clients. People close to it said recently that a building in the Canary Wharf, London drew rising attention of it because up to 75 percent of the owners of apartments ...
Tags: Service, real estate
Companies in Vietnam sold 7.55Mt of cement in the first quarter of 2013, a 15% rise year-on-year compared to 2013 according to the Ministry of Construction. This occurred despite a year-on-year fall of 30% to 2Mt in March 2013. The country ...
Tags: cement production, cement
AssuredPartners of Florida has acquired all of the assets of Alan James Insurance, an insurance broker specializing in insurance products and services designed for the south-Florida real estate market. The acquirer expects that the ...
Tags: Insurance, insurance broker, AssuredPartners
In March this year, China’s State Council issued its new regulatory policy on the domestic real estate market, indicating that local governments should issue specific policies based on the State Council’s regulations. As of ...
Tags: Real Estate Sector, Mineral, Metallurgy
Its large number of SMEs, reputation for design and creativity, high standard of living and highly skilled workforce make Italy an attractive option for overseas investors. Investment opportunities in the country are numerous, though ...
Tags: Service, Italy, business, cooperation project
In 2013 the average sales price for the national commercial housing is 6200 yuan / square meters, up 7.6% year-on-year. Looking forward to 2013, the report pointed out that there are many factors affect China's real estate market trends: ...