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  2. Land banking - Wikipedia

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    Blighted land in Philadelphia. Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.. While in many countries land banking may refer to various private real estate investment schemes, in the United States it refers to the establishment of quasi-governmental county or municipal authorities tasked with managing an inventory of surplus land.

  3. Banking in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Over the past 40 years (to 2014) the banking system in the UK experienced a 'dramatic shift' with total assets increasing from 100% of GDP to 450%, and it is 'plausible that the UK banking system will continue to grow rapidly', owing to its probable 'comparative advantage' in international banking services, with the pre-eminence of London as a ...

  4. Bank of England - Wikipedia

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    The establishment of a Land Bank (by John Asgill and Nicholas Barbon) in 1695, and a currency shortage occasioned by the Great Recoinage of 1696, both threatened the bank's position; [26] but Parliament intervened, passing another Act that year, which authorised the bank to increase its capital to over £2.2 million through the enlarging of its ...

  5. Real estate in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Domestic real estate represented the largest non-financial asset in the UK, with a net worth of £5.1trillion (2014). [3] Foreign investment plays a substantial role in the UK's real estate market, particularly in London, and foreign companies and individuals invested around £20billion in UK real estate in 2012. [4] [needs update]

  6. List of banks in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    State Bank of India (UK) Limited State Bank of India: India: StreamBank PLC Independently run Wales: Tandem Bank Limited: Tandem Money Limited: England: TD Bank Europe Limited: Toronto-Dominion Bank: Canada: Tesco Personal Finance Plc: Barclays: England: Triodos Bank UK Ltd Triodos Bank N.V. Netherlands: TSB Bank plc: Banco Sabadell: Spain ...

  7. Mortgages in English law - Wikipedia

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    Mortgages in English law are a method of raising capital through a loan contract. Typically with a bank, the lender/mortgagee gives money to the borrower/mortgagor, who uses their property/land/home as security (essentially a reassurance) that they will repay the debt and any relevant interest.

  8. Cumberland Building Society - Wikipedia

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    Cumberland Building Society, trading as The Cumberland, is a building society in the UK, with its headquarters in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is a member of the Building Societies Association. The Cumberland was established on 16 April 1850 as the Cumberland Co-operative Land and Benefit Building Society.

  9. Panic of 1796–1797 - Wikipedia

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    The immediate cause of the Panic of 1796–1797 was a series of land speculation schemes in the fledgling United States that issued commercial paper backed by claims to Western lands. The largest such scheme was created by the Boston merchant James Greenleaf and Philadelphia financiers Robert Morris and John Nicholson .