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NATIONAL RETURN TO INDEX Acting for the discerning buyer - Sands Home Search Agents Looking to buy a Country, Equestrian, Farm, Waterside or Hotel property in England, Wales, The Channel Islands or Western France? We act exclusively for the property buyer/renter and we search to order to find the right property at the right price for you. Whether you have £500,000 or £5Million to spend, we will find the property you are searching for. August Home Finders Offers a totally independent rural homesearch service throughout the UK. They act solely for you, the homebuyer, finding and securing all styles of rural properties, from cottages to manor houses. Bidwells Rural division Founded in 1840, Bidwells is the largest independent UK firm of property consultants outside London. Bidwells Rural division is acknowledged as one of the country's leading practices, with an established reputation for the letting, marketing and acquisition of estates, farms and country properties. Chiltern Estates Services: Residential and Commercial Sales; Long-term and Short-term Lets; Property Management; Relocation; Acquisitions; and Financial Services Clark Scott-Harden Chartered Surveyors and Property consultants dealing with agricultural commercial and residential property throughout the UK. Specialists in property management, sales, valuation and litigation. Contains information on building surveying, sporting, valuation dispute resolution, planning and design, farms, forests, commercial property. FarmLandXchange.com is a land intelligence database designed to help UK farmers and landowners overcome problems of fragmentation.Members can register to sell, buy or rent land and receive confidential feedback. Farmsearch Rural Properties & Professionals at your fingertips. A centralised national register of rural and agricultural property. 1/2% - Halfapercent - 'Live' Website of UK Property for sale and to rent The AWARD WINNING Estate Agents Halfapercent, who are London's largest online Estate Agency, are now selling rural properties. Halfapercent visit & produce full details, including virtual video tours. They market the properties to their existing London based clients looking to move to the Countryside and online to all internet users, via their extensive network. Sales Fees from only 0.5%. Lettings Fees from only 5%. Hawthorn Associates Land sales agents specialising in larger plots of land for sale - with and without planning permission. Home Free Home Selling or buying your home nationwide could not easier! No fees, commissions or agency charges. House ladder Don't pay estate agents £1000s in commission. Privately sell or let your home. Jackson-Stops & Staff Established in 1910 covering The Borders to Lands End. 31 offices across the U.K, an established Country Agency specialising in the sale of all kinds of rural property from Cottages to true Country Houses, Farms, Smallholdings and Equestrian property. Particular expertise in Equine property. Jon Drew-Smyth e Over 25 years of experience in the Country Property market both with an old established local firm and with one of the major National Country House and Farm Agents. Covers an area very broadly which includes all of Buckinghamshire, East Oxfordshire, West Hertfordshire, South Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire. Advertise widely in the local press and regularly advertise in Country Life, Horse and Hound, Farmers Weekly and in National newspapers. Knight Frank Country Residential Has been the best-known name in quality residential property for over 100 years, with a real understanding of the country residential market: estates, country cottages, new-build rural developments, farms, sporting estates, and country houses. Offices are found throughout the United Kingdom, from Cornwall to Scotland. Lane Fox Estate Agents & Chartered Surveyors - London and Country Property. My Plot ; Land for Sale. Sustainable Investment Land for sale in growth towns.Planning applications managed by Acorus . Interest free payment plans available.Absolutely realisable property investment. Premier Country & Equestrian Homes We focus exclusively on matching buyers and sellers with some of the UK's most desirable Country, Equestrian, Farm and Waterside properties, typically in the range £500k - £10m. We have access to a private client bank which contains many properties which are being confidentially or privately marketed. Our country property search agency, Sands Home Search will provide property search, negotiation & purchase assistance to private buying clients. For property sellers we will market your property to a wide audience of potential buyers (and in a confidential manner if required). All our properties are advertised on www.PrimeLocation.com. Premier Farm & Equestrian Property Sales We focus exclusively on matching buyers and sellers with some of the UK's most desirable Farm, Small Holding & Equestrian properties, typically in the range £500k - £10m. We have access to a private client bank which contains many properties which are being confidentially or privately marketed. Our farm property search agency, Sands Home Search will provide property search, negotiation & purchase assistance to private buying clients. For property sellers we will market your property to a wide audience of potential buyers (and in a confidential manner if required). All our properties are advertised onwww.PrimeLocation.com. Private Property People! Sell your property privately in the UK for £9.99 a month and we will submit your advert to the UKs leading property sites. We do not charge commission on completion, saving you thousands! Profile Homes Estate agents in Wales, specialising in country and equestrian properties. Smallholdings, farms, businesses, estates, rural property with land for sale (large or small acreages). Properties for rent Savills offers houses and flats for rent in London and the UK. PropertyBanking.com is the online resource for help and information on buying properties in this country and abroad, including market trends, interest rates and advice on finance management. PropertySpy PLC - Land for sale Freehold land for sale in London, Home counties and other prime areas of UK. Recreational Land - Specialist UK Land Agents Offers land for sale in the UK. Specialising in recreational land but also arable, equestrian etc. Advice on land buying and up to date news. RH & RW Clutton Chartered Surveyors & Land Agents are an independant limited liablity partnership providing a complete range of property services to Homeowners and Landowners from strategically located offices. Rural Scene Sell Commercial Farms, Smallholdings, Equestrian Properties, Residential Holdings, Properties with Leisure Facilities, Holiday Income or Potential. Strutt & Parker Leading independent property consultants for commercial, residential and rural property and land management advisors. National network of 23 offices employing a team of over 500 personnel. Studio 103 Detailing many useful links to numerous property sites nationwide. The County Homesearch Company Has been assisting property buyers for over ten years and currently has a network of over 30 offices throughout the UK as well as in Ireland, Spain, The Balearics and The Algarve. The company works only on behalf of property buyers and/or tenants. This provides much needed balance to the business of house purchasing which until recently left buyers largely on their own to face vendors and their estate agents. The Rural Property Index Britain's directory of country property, providing an i nexpensive platform for land agents; estate agents; letting agents and individuals to promote and find rural property lets and sales. Register your 'want' free of charge for three months. Top 4... Find just what you're looking for at Top 4 property sites. A selection of the best esate agent sites on the web. UK Plot Sales - Land for Sale . UK Plot Sales offers plots of land for sale with high development and planning potential. 24 Hour Property Selling or buying, estate agents investment, auctions and buy to let White Developments acquire land and offer it for development or investment to our clients. Our experience enables us to identify prime development land at an affordable price, with a variety of locations on offer. COTSWOLDS RETURN TO INDEX Butler Sherborn A recognised and well-deserved reputation as the principal specialist in their markets in the Cotswolds and the surrounding Counties. The firm provides a comprehensive professional service specialising in farm, land and estate management, and rural consultancy. The agency department has particular expertise in the sale, valuation and purchase of country houses, cottages, farms and estates as well as providing a lettings and residential managment department. Cotswold Estate Agents A privately owned independent estate agent with many years experience in selling properties in the local area. ENGLISH BORDERS RETURN TO INDEX David Parry & Co Estate Agents Specialise in properties in the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Powys, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Monmouthshire! Foster Maddison Chartered Surveyors, Valuers and Estate Agents specialising in the sale and rental of rural, residential and commercial property throughout Northumberland, County Durham and Tyneside. NORTH WALES RETURN TO INDEX Denton Clark & Co Established in 1947, Denton Clark and Company enjoy an excellent reputation as one of the leading property agents in the North West of England and North Wales. The firm offers an integrated range of rural, farming and property management services by combining the activities of specialist department. SOUTH EAST RETURN TO INDEX Calcutt Maclean Standen covering the sale of country and village houses in Kent and East Sussex, the letting of houses, cottages and flats in Kent, the valuation and sale by auction of fine art and collectibles and specialist country house insurance. SOUTHERN ENGLAND RETURN TO INDEX Equus Country and Equestrian The Leading Specialists for Country and Equestrian Properties throughout Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. 1/2% - Halfapercent - 'Live' Website of UK Property for sale and to rent The AWARD WINNING Estate Agents Halfapercent, who are London's largest online Estate Agency, are now selling rural properties. Halfapercent visit & produce full details, including virtual video tours. They market the properties to their existing London based clients looking to move to the Countryside and online to all internet users, via their extensive network. Sales Fees from only 0.5%. Lettings Fees from only 5%. CHURCHILL COUNTRY AND EQUESTRIAN ESTATE AGENT The longest established equestrian specialist involved in the selling, purchase, renting and valuation of country houses with land and equestrian facilities in Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. Simon V Ellis FRICS Simon Ellis is a Chartered Surveyor of many years' experience in Rural Property, specialising in the Sale, Letting, Acquisition and Valuation of Country, Farm and Equestrian Property in Hampshire, Surrey & Sussex Southern Equestrian Properties A specialist equestrian estate agent for people with horses. Handling equestrian properties for sale in Bucks, Oxon, Wilts, Berks, Hants and the Isle of Wight. Woolley & Wallis The leading specialist farm, rural and equestrian, estate agents for central and southern England. EAST ANGLIA RETURN TO INDEX Brown & Co Approaching 10 years of age the Partnership of Brown & Co now has 21 members assisted by over 120 professionals and support staff working from nine offices throughout East Anglia and the East Midlands, as well as on an International scale with an office in Torun, Poland. Having acted in the sale or purchase of over 250,000 acres, they also provide consultancy advice on over 350,000 acres. Cheffins Agricultural Covering Ely and Cambridgeshire, Cheffin's expertise as land agents and professional valuers is the fulcrum on which the entire business is hinge.. All partners and staff are qualified and experienced to advise in the sale, purchase and valuation of farms and land. They also advise on land usage for both owners and developers, help create development strategies, and guide development plans, sales and future lettings East Anglia Equestrian Properties The specialist equestrian property agent for East Anglia and its surrounding counties Beds, Cambs, Essex, Lincs, Norfolk, Northants & Suffolk Home finders for Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex As the UKs leading independent home-finding service, we can access properties not available on the open market. We'll save you time by searching & viewing for you - and we'll negotiate a keen price. Lincolnshire Homesearch Relocation agents finding period or modern homes, houses and property for those seeking to Purchase or Rent in the County of Lincolnshire and surrounds. You might be looking to move following a change of work or business location, or seeking a weekend retreat or retirement home in the country or by the sea, or a second or investment property. You could be looking for a short term Holiday Let. SCOTLAND RETURN TO INDEX Aberdeen and Northern Estates Amulti disciplined team of chartered surveyors, providing a broad range of rural and commercial property services throughout the North of Scotland. Bradburne & Co. Fife based independant firm of Chartered Surveyors and Estate Agents offering a personal and prompt service, specialising in the residential and rural property sectors. Brodies in Edinburgh View a selection of Brodies' prime properties (residential, agricultural and fishings) for sale and to let throughout Scotland. CKD Finlayson Hughes Specialise in private purchases, sales and rental of prime sporting and agricultural estates, residential and commercial property throughout Scotland. Estate Management Services Land agents, estate and property consultants, building surveying, town & country planning, environmental impact issues. UKLandSale.com Welcome to a www.uklandsale.com, it is an effort to build an online market place to help the prospective property owners and the buyer intrested in uk land investments to interact directly online. WEST WALES RETURN TO INDEX Evans Bros Property specialists covering Carmarthen; Swansea; Aberaeron; Lampeter; and Aberystwyth. Residential; smallholdings; farms; building plots and commercial property. Profile Homes Estate agents in Wales, specialising in country and equestrian properties. Smallholdings, farms, businesses, estates, rural property with land for sale (large or small acreages). The Smallholding Centre Specialise in the sale of smallholdings, farms and rural properties throughout the West Wales Area. Mortgages arranged and Reduced Rate Structural Surveys also undertaken. SOUTH WEST RETURN TO INDEX Foxwells Specialise in equestrian and country or rural property in the counties Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. Guy Sherratt Based in Devon and covering the whole of the south west (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset) as well as South Wales and Gloucestershire, theyspecialise in the sale of a wide range of rural properties, properties with land and equestrian properties. Hosegood Ford An independent firm of Chartered Surveyors Auctioneers and Estate Agents based in Williton, Somerset.The principal and staff of the firm are all experienced people who have been dealing with the sale of residential, agricultural and equestrian properties throughout West Somerset for a considerable number of years. 1/2% - Halfapercent - 'Live' Website of UK Property for sale and to rent The AWARD WINNING Estate Agents Halfapercent, who are London's largest online Estate Agency, are now selling rural properties. Halfapercent visit & produce full details, including virtual video tours. They market the properties to their existing London based clients looking to move to the Countryside and online to all internet users, via their extensive network. Sales Fees from only 0.5%. Lettings Fees from only 5%. Miller & Son Estate agents for the sale or letting of domestic and commercial premises in the South West. Recoco A relocation agency which provides a personal property service, home purchasing service and a house finding service based in the southwest of england. A cottage by the sea - somewhere to sail, to escape, to dream... Stags An independent, multi-disciplined Partnership with 13 offices throughout the West Country. The London Office, situated in Pall Mall and providing the strategic London marketing arm, completes the picture - providing a London showcase for West Country properties. 13 offices in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, well known for handling the sale of Agricultural and Rural Properties: Farms, Country Houses and Estates Symonds & Sampson Chartered Surveyors, Estate Agents and Auctioneers - Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and at The London Office. Services include the sale of residential, agricultural and commercial property; lettings; building surveys and general valuations; machinery and livestock auctions; sale and lease of quotas; farm finance; farm management; planning and professional advice. MIDLANDS RETURN TO INDEX Godfrey-Payton An independent multi-disciplinary private practice of Chartered Surveyors operating throughout the broad spectrum of the Midlands' property market. 3 offices at Warwick, Coventry, and Market Harborough, offering a totally comprehensive range of professional services covering all types of property be it residential, commercial or agricultural, at very competitive rates EQUESTRIAN SPECIALISTS RETURN TO INDEX Churchill Country and Equestrian Estate Agents Specialising in properties with land, country estates, riding schools, livery yards, equestrian centres, private and commercial properties throughout the United Kingdom. For houses for horses contact Churchills. Land Portal uses local contacts to develop an exclusive network of 47 locations across the UK with Arable and Equestrian Land for Sale. Michael Martin Specialist equestrian estate agent for property with land and stables in the UK. Premier Equestrian & Rural Homes We focus exclusively on matching buyers and sellers with some of the UK's most desirable Equestrian, Farm and Rural properties, typically in the range £500k - £10m. We have access to a private client bank which contains many properties which are being confidentially or privately marketed. Our equestrian property search agency, Sands Home Search will provide property search, negotiation & purchase assistance to private buying clients. For property sellers we will market your property to a wide audience of potential buyers (and in a confidential manner if required). All our properties are advertised on www.PrimeLocation.com Southern Equestrian Properties A specialist equestrian estate agent for people with horses. Handling equestrian properties for sale in Bucks, Oxon, Wilts, Berks, Hants and the Isle of Wight. UK Equestrian Properties - Specialist equestrian estate agents A group of individual equestrian property sales offices working to the successful formula defined by East Anglia Equestrian Properties, that of - 'Horsey' people with regional experience selling property for 'Horsey' people. From this perspective - Our mission is to offer the best possible levels of customer service and support to provide you with a rewarding experience in either the selling or buying process that you will want to recommend to your friends. Windsor Clive International Specialising in the sale, purchase, valuation and letting of stud farms and property suitable for horses, particularly in Great Britain, Ireland and France. 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All rights reserved. email webmaster | publishers MRA VISIT OUR SISTER Britain's Country Property Index Britain's new directory of country property, providing an inexpensive platform for land agents; estate agents; letting agents and individuals to promote and find rural property lets and sales. BOOKMARK THIS PAGE! The UK's leading guide to Rural Britain online. Updated weekly SEARCH Google Search Site Search RURAL CHOICE Established Landscape Gardeners based in Cheshire Full aspect garden design we cater for private and commercial clients and have even been commisioned to do work for the National Trust, we are an established company and all our work is 100% gauranteed . UK Plot Sales - Land for Sale UK Plot Sales offers plots of land for sale with high development and planning potential. SITE OWNERS! Help us ensure our reviews and links are up to date. Please email with any site changes or news we may wish to highlight, quoting your registration number.

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Bush and the Texas Land Grab Bush and the Texas Land Grab July 16, 2002 By Nicholas D. Kristof Editorial Op-Ed To submit a Letter to the Editor: letters@nytimes.com Democrats and media hounds are baying under the wrong tree. The point in President Bush's business career where he took outrageous shortcuts was not at Harken Energy, but rather when he was grabbing land for a new baseball stadium in Arlington for his Texas Rangers baseball team. Mr. Bush broke no laws. Neither do the overwhelming majority of corporate executives. The cloud over the business world comes not so much from lawbreaking as from avaricious bruising of the public interest. The challenge is not catching criminals but injecting public scrutiny into a culture of cronyism in which executives, accountants, regulators and "independent" board members all ooze empathy for each other. When Asia had its economic crisis in 1997-98, Americans properly trashed its "crony capitalism." But we suffer from the same affliction ourselves, and President Bush will not address the issue seriously because cronyism has been his way of life -- the Bushes call it loyalty. I have a stack of court documents from Arlington that portray the "sordid and shocking tale" of the Rangers stadium, as one lawsuit puts it. Essentially, Mr. Bush and the owners' group he led bullied and misled the city into raising taxes to build a $200 million stadium that in effect would be handed over to the Rangers. As part of the deal, the city would even confiscate land from private owners so that the Rangers owners could engage in real estate speculation. "It was a $200 million transfer to Bush and Rangers owners," complains Jim Runzheimer, an anti-tax campaigner in Arlington. William Eastland, a leading Republican in Arlington, is also outraged, and puts it this way: "You're using public money for a private purpose." Mr. Eastland was a Bush delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2000 but still believes that the Bush group behaved shadily and against the public interest. Local voters overwhelmingly approved the deal, so maybe we shouldn't get so exercised by star-struck local officials giving $200 million to rich baseball owners. But the most unseemly part of the deal was that Mr. Bush and the Rangers' owners conspired with city officials to seize private property that would be handed over to the Bush group. "A group of wealthy and influential people threatened and traded their way into an unprecedented takeover of government power and private property in an awesome display of greed and avarice," charges a lawsuit by the landowners, in what strikes me as a fair recitation of events. Another suit charges that the deal "can only be described as astounding, unprecedented and blatantly illegal." A copy of the secret agreement among Mr. Bush and the other Rangers owners shows that they intended to make money not just by running a baseball club but also by land speculation. For example, one owner found a nice chunk of land and sent a memo suggesting that it "sounds like another condemnation candidate if you want to work the site into your master plan," according to the court documents. Another of the owners' internal memos casts a proprietary gaze on a property and declares: "We plan to condemn this land." For a group of financiers to go around town admiring properties and deciding which to seize through the government power of condemnation so that they can acquire free land and speculate on it is appalling. Even Kazakhstan would blush at such practices. Horace Kelton, for example, owned land that the Rangers wanted. The owners got Arlington to seize it, with the city paying less than $1.50 per square foot even though it had previously paid $10 a square foot for other land nearby. "It was an extremely low price, and that's why we had a court case that lasted seven years," Mr. Kelton recalled. Eventually, his family got $11 a square foot. In fairness, Mr. Bush was simply being a hard-nosed businessman. He did a great job leading the owners' group, and it's hard to take seriously the caricature of him as unintelligent when he led the Rangers so lucratively. Indeed, his $14 million profit on the Rangers financed his entry into politics. But it's also a sordid tale of cronyism, of misuse of power, of cozy backroom money-grubbing -- a more pressing threat to American business than outright criminality. LINK to source

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Welcome to the Home Loan Bank of New York ----commented out ------- MEMBER LOGON From the President December 29, 2005 2005: A YEAR OF ACCOMPLISHMENT We have completed a year in which the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York achieved a number of distinct and transforming accomplishments. Completed SEC Registration One of the most significant and transforming of the accomplishments occurred in late August. After three years of preparation and hard work, the registration of the Banks stock under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 was declared effective by the SEC. The Home Loan Bank became one of only two banks in the Home Loan Bank System to satisfy the registration requirements of the SEC within the time frame set by our regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Board. The Home Loan Banks filings with the SEC are available on the SECs EDGAR system, accessed at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml . If you have not done so, I encourage you to review these reports containing detailed financial and other information about the Bank. Completed Capital Exchange With the completion of the SEC registration process, the Home Loan Bank then proceeded with the implementation of the new Capital Plan. Prior to the opening of business on December 1, outstanding shares of capital stock owned by the Home Loan Bank of New Yorks community member stockholders were automatically exchanged for shares of the Banks new Class B stock. The new Capital Plan was mandated by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and more closely ties member capital requirements with advance usage. Improved Financial Results In addition and more importantly, the Home Loan Bank continued to achieve solid financial results in 2005. The Bank manages to a risk/reward profile that generates sustainable and predictable earnings. For example, we continued with a low-risk, tightly controlled, conservative approach to investing in Mortgage-Backed Securities. At the same time, we also remained a member-focused, advances-oriented Home Loan Bank: approximately 75% of the assets of the Bank are in the form of advances to our members. Only a few other Home Loans rival this high percentage. Further, advance demand has remained solid. In November 2005, advances averaged $60.9 billion, down slightly (about $600 million) from October 2005. We ended the month with $61.4 billion in advances on our books. Product innovation has continued in the area of advances. In June, the Bank introduced the Fed Funds Floating Rate Advance, a new adjustable alternative for members. The "Fed Funds Floater" Advance is designed to help fund a portion of members' cash positions. The products rate is tied to the Fed Funds rate and resets daily. The Home Loan Bank also furthered its record of providing a fair return on our members capital investment. In fact, profits improved over 2004 and the Home Loan Bank is now providing among the highest capital investment returns in the Bank System. At the same time, the level of pre-dividend retained earnings increased more than 22% from the 2004 year-end balance to approximately $273 million at the end of November. As we total up the results for the full year, I want to express my personal appreciation to each stockholder for the business you brought to the Bank in 2005. We are here to help our members play a key role in the delivery of housing and community financing. With an outstanding Board of Directors, a solid management team, and a dedicated staff, we have set the course and put in place the plans that have made the FHLBNY an exemplary organization. The Home Loan Bank team is dedicated to providing quality services, and we look forward to maintaining a high level of service in 2006. In closing, we value your relationship with the Home Loan Bank and we are ready to assist you in meeting your commitments to your customers. And we appreciate the opportunity to serve you. All of us at the Home Loan Bank wish you and yours the very best in 2006! Sincerely, Alfred A. DelliBovi President & CEO FHLBNY UPDATES December Edition 4-Year Floating-Rate Advances Priced at 3-Month LIBOR Plus 2 Basis Points! Convertible Advances at FHLBNY Repo Convertible Advance Rates FHLBNY NEWS With the filing of an amendment to its registration statement on Form 10 on August 29, 2005, with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the HLB became an SEC registrant. 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