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October 27, 2008 - The 6th International Building Exhibition has been held in Accra, with the theme: ‘The future in our hands, planning responsibly for tomorrow’. The four-day exhibition was under the auspices of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing and the Ghana Institute of Architects. |
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - The Presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo has promised Health workers across the length and breadth of the country of his readiness to review their remuneration and rural allowances, as well as retirement scheme. |
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Friday, 11 July 2008 - It is undeniable that mortgage financing is vital to every economy because it accounts for a sizeable portion of a country’s productive activity through backward linkages to land and labor markets, as well as related industries. Since it is inextricably linked to a country’s economic development, apart from strengthening financial institutions, promoting social stability and improving people’s lives, the sector should have by now seen enormous growth, culminating in affordable houses for Ghanaians.
At the individual level, housing finance or mortgage - the pledging of a property to a lender as a security for a mortgage loan not only enables access to homeownership but also to meet basic needs – a means of economic empowerment. |
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 - A Senior Partner of PricewaterHouse Coopers, Mr Felix Addo, has advocated the removal of' the l0-year tax moratorium granted to real estate developers in the country.
He explained that studies had shown that real estate developers recouped their investments between one and three years; therefore, the incentives to the developers was not necessary. |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 - One of the foremost investors in the real estate industry in Ghana, Mr Teodoro Martinez Montero, the brain behind the Legonman Housing Project at Madina, has had his share in the vast estate returned to him, 22 years after it was confiscated to the state.
The assets were confiscated from Mr Montero, as the Managing Director of Redco Limited, in 1985, following his arrest and detention by the then military regime. |
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