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ç The housing market has been unusually strong this year, with strong demand in nearly every corner of the country. The property market has emerged as a bonanza for sellers and a source of anxiety for purchasers in the midst of this pandemic. Home prices have been rising in the mid-single digits for several years. The recent double-digit price rises reflect a combination of high demand and consistently limited supply. Prices are growing because there is a lot of money on the sidelines, and mortgage rates are very low. In order to spread awareness for future home buyers or sellers, TimeShatter analyzed the data and put together a resource on 2021 real estate trends & stats. You can find it here: timeshatter.com/real-estate-statistics Key findings from the research: the total housing market value reached $36 trillion; in July 2021, the total median home price reached $390,500; the housing market faces a supply shortage of 2.5 million housing units; the number of REALTORS has increased from 1,11 million in 2009 to 1.53 million in 2021, reaching an all-time high; Gen Xers make up the largest percentage of homeowners at 24%; there are twice as many single women homeowners aged 30 - 54 years compared to single men; June and July are the best months to buy a house.

è In commercial real estate, the COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges for women and stalled their progress in the industry. Yet it also presented new opportunities to change the industry culture and remove persistent workplace barriers. CREW Network’s latest industry research paper, A Catalyst for Change: COVID-19’s Impact on Women in Commercial Real Estate, examines the pandemic’s impact on women globally and in the industry, especially women of color. CREW Network is a global business network and the leading producer of research on gender and diversity in the industry. ACCESS THE RESEARCH HERE

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This is a list of heads of government who were later imprisoned. There have been several individuals throughout history who served as head of state or head of government (such as president, prime minister or monarch) of their respective nation states, who later became prisoners. Any serving or former head of state or head of government who was placed under house arrest or became a prisoner of war is also included. Leaders who were kidnapped by insurgents, convicted in absentia while in exile or those who received an international arrest warrant that was not consummated are not included, but the list still contains well over 200 in the last two centuries (including Jefferson Davis).

You may remember some of the names from recent history – Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Manuel Noriega (Panama), Mohammed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), Omar Al Bashir (Sudan), Agosto Pinochet (Chile), Mikhail Saakashvili (Georgia), Nicolas Sarkozy (France), Suharto (Indonesia), Charles Taylor (Liberia), Jacob Zuma (South Africa) Silvio Berlusconi (Italy), Park Geunhye (South Korea), Georgios Papadopoulos (Greece), and Isabel Martinez de Peron (Argentina)... just to name a few.

There are some who have wrongfully been imprisoned, most notably Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and Jawaharlal Nehru (India), and there are those who went into exile to avoid imprisonment, such as Idi Amin (Uganda) and Shah Pahlavi (Iran.)

And, of course, if you go back not too much further, you’ll find Nicolas Ceauşescu (Romania), and Benito Mussolini (Italy), and even further back to Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) or Napoleon Bonaparte (France). You get the idea.