That brand has been particularly active in converting properties.
In a similar vein, the paper says that Fannie and Freddie — known as government-sponsored enterprises, or G.S.E.'s — have pushed to resell foreclosed properties even when converting properties into rental units makes more sense.
For some hotels, an exhibitionist-friendly bathroom is a design statement; for others, she says: "It has a lot to do with the issues of converting properties that weren't traditionally hotels and adapting spaces to have a big, open-plan feel".
The government argues certain practices, such as unnecessarily restrictive zoning, occupancy limits or ordinances that prohibit converting properties to rental units, can have a large racial impact and no compelling justification.
"Since the general election on May 6, I have handled one converted property for £12.5 million, one for £25 million and another £18 million," Mr. Wetherell said.
We have to keep pace with science, so we needed some flexibility that will allow us to convert property without being penalized all the time, says Sarah Gallop, codirector of MITs Office of Government and Community Relations.
191) that it was beyond the power of the state by legislative fiat to convert property used exclusively in the business of a private carrier into a public utility, or to make the owner a public carrier, since that would be to take private property for public use without just compensation in violation of the due process of law clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Same-sex couples can convert property they already own to tenancy by the entirety after they marry or, in states that permit it, after registering as domestic partners.
A few Atlanta loft dealers, however, turn up their noses at recently completed pretenders, said Jay Silliman, a local real estate agent who has specialized in selling lofts for the past 12 years and will traffic only in converted properties.
He previously admitted transferring criminal property and converting criminal property.
