Sentence examples for for higher rents from inspiring English sources
They called for higher rents to offset rising operating costs.
"Landlords who adjust to today's market will do well and those who hold out for higher rents will continue to hold out".
Ms. Gideon's lawyer, James B. Fishman, said that depending on the outcome, it was possible that the case could establish rights for other tenants who had signed leases for higher rents, or even possibly some tenants who had left the building, to get rent refunds totaling many thousands of dollars.
Renée Drell, executive director of HomeSharing Inc., in Bridgewater, N.J., where home-shares rose 14percentt last year, said that as mortgage payments, heating costs and taxes have all risen, homeowners are asking for higher rents to share their homes, often more than seekers can afford.
He predicts that downtown landlords will keep asking for higher rents while vacancy remains stagnant.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani supports the Rent Guidelines Board's last-minute decision for higher rent increases for the 2.3 million residents of rent-stabilized apartments, his aides said yesterday, citing rising energy costs.
PAGE A10 Blacks Leave San Francisco A city known for high rents is seeing black residents leave in numbers not seen in other American cities.
A recent McKinsey report on productivity found that, on average, selling-space in Britain was 40% more expensive than in America and 20% more than in France.Part of the explanation for high rents is the strictness of British planning laws.
Residents and lawyers say it is part of an aggressive attempt to drive out low-rent tenants for high-rent ones.
Conspiracy theories abounded, among them the idea that the poor were being cleared out to make way for high-rent condominiums.
More than a year after buying Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan for a record-breaking $5.4 billion, Tishman Speyer Properties has accused hundreds of rent-stabilized tenants of living somewhere other than their apartments, a tactic that residents and their lawyers say is part of an aggressive attempt to drive out low-rent tenants to make way for high-rent ones.
