At Cottenham in Cambridgeshire, where at least 33 out of 58 tenants died, "ruinous" houses were still being reported two centuries later.
Apparently all of us who make ruinous housing payments to be a part of Warhol's city really dream of Wyeth's world, at least when dinnertime rolls around.
Over the years, I have written one book in which I argued that the Fed's policies in the late nineteen-nineties paved the way for a damaging stock-market bubble, and another book arguing that its policies in the early aughts helped to bring about a ruinous housing bubble.
This was a perfect recipe for a runaway boom and for a ruinous bust.Substitute "houses" for "assets" in the paragraph above, and you might be reading a rough description of the blowing-up and bursting of America's property bubble.
After visiting the property in 1966, Nigel Tranter, author and historian, reported that work had begun on the structure but described it as a "ruinous shell of a house".
This, now ruinous monastery, apparently a daughter house of Mellifont Abbey, is the only Cistercian house known to have been founded in the West Highlands.
There's too much else to think about, and the cost terrifies me – filling an entire house with furniture is ruinous.
In particular, land is often valued on their books at well below market prices.Even so, the impromptu trading rooms of Ho Chi Minh City are beginning to resemble the London coffee-houses that incubated the ruinous South Sea Bubble in the early 18th century.
It is time for Labour to atone for the excesses of the boom, for allowing the housing bubble to inflate to ruinous proportions.
So much of Dublin was built in the 18th century that it set a Georgian stamp on the city; however arising out of bad planning and poverty, until recently Dublin was one of the few cities where fine 18th-century housing could be seen in ruinous condition.
