The Perry Hall Town Fair is Saturday, July 9, 2011 from 10am-5pm at the Honeygo Village Center.
Also known as the Perry Hall/White Marsh Town Fair, it incorporates local businesses and fun from both areas!
For kids, the Oriole Bird will be there, Bubbles the Clown, and a HUGE slide, obstacle course, TWO moonbounces, games, and a Super-Soaker arena for minimal cost.
For adults, live bands, and beer & wine garden, and a cornhole tournament will entertain!
There are over 180 vendors, including food & crafts, as well as a silent auction.
There are specific parking lots set up with shuttles running throughout the day. For more detail, visit the fair’s website here.
So come out to Perry Hall for fun, food, and relaxation!
The portion of the U.S. population that is under 15 years of age has dropped slightly during the last decade, and the ripple effect of this already has repercussions on the economy. While the resources that children need are different than those of adults, for governments they are not less expensive. Most government expenses have to do with education. However, the recession has added other costs: The costs of food and other programs such as Food Stamps, or the cost of housing as the inventories of foreclosed homes and the number of adults chronically unemployed rises. The challenges vary considerably from state to state because in some the percentage of the population under 15 has fallen sharply.
Brazil is all set for another year of strong growth, an authority has claimed.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has predicted that the region will experience overall growth of around 4.7 per cent during 2011.
However, it forecast that Brazil will enjoy an economy expected to grow by four per cent.
The strongest expansion will be seen in Panama with 8.5 per cent, while Argentina and Peru will see growth of 8.3 per cent and 7.1 per cent, respectively.
ECLAC said that the low risk associated with investment in Brazil, along with Columbia, Mexico and Peru, have helped lead to a surge in global liquidity.
“These are the countries that receive the bulk of flows from net foreign direct investment, portfolio investment and other investment liabilities, which partly explains their stockpiling of reserves and the efforts many of them have deployed to stave off currency appreciation,” the report claimed.
This was supported by Scott Piper, portfolio manager with Brazil-based Itau Asset Management, portfolio sub-advisor to the Excel Latin America Fund, who explained that Brazil is an attractive investment opportunity, Advisor reported.
The biggest home in L.A. County is ready for a new nickname: The 56,500-square-foot Manor, dubbed Candyland after owner Candy Spelling, has officially sold to another wealthy socialite, British heiress Petra Ecclestone, in an all-cash deal for $85 million.
As steep as that price is, it’s not a record or even close to what Spelling was asking. The priciest Southland home transaction was the 2000 sale of an eight-acre estate in Bel-Air to financial executive Gary Winnick in a deal that included the trade of other land for a total value of about $94 million. A $100-million sale in the Silicon Valley earlier this year is believed to have set a U.S. record.
On the market for more than two years at $150 million as the highest-priced house in the U.S., the 4.7-acre Holmby Hills estate was designed for a life of glamour and grand living to which Ecclestone is no stranger. Read all post…
Elections, announcements, economic news, all with impact on the housing and mortgage markets. What sense to make of it all, and how can it help you with your new home loan or refinance mortgage? Mortgage calculators are extremely useful tools for planning your mortgage, as useful as up-to-date information that shows trends in housing prices and mortgage rates. Here is the information from the past week that can affect both prices and rates.
Elections and mortgage rates
With the Democrats losing their majority in the House of Representatives and with a smaller majority in the Senate, the Obama administration will face a more difficult challenge in the next two years passing signature legislation.
Even though mortgage interest rates keep falling, it has not been enough to increase U.S. mortgage applications. Total applications for refinance loans and home purchase loans dropped 5.1 percent in the past week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, marking the fourth consecutive weekly decrease.
The number of home purchase requests, often a sign of future home sales, fell 2.6 percent in the past week. The unemployment outlook and tightened loan standards continue to be significant issues for many potential homebuyers. Says Celia Chen, a housing economist at Moody’s Analytics Inc as quoted in a Bloomberg article
“Without stronger job growth it’s not possible for consumers to purchase more homes. The o