“Brownfield” sites are typically built on only when land prices rise enough to cover the high cost of development.

只有当土地价格上涨至足以覆盖发展的高成本时，“布朗菲尔德”地区才特别作为建筑地址。

Government subsidies, good monsoons, high land prices and a low reliance on credit have thus far sheltered these consumers.

这些消费者拿着政府的补助，得益于充沛的雨季，高额的地价，他们对于信贷的依赖程度很低，这些都使他们免于经济增长放缓的影响。

They may even become more willing to loosen planning restrictions, which keep land prices in most British cities extremely high.

如果能从收益中分一杯羹的话，市议会将更倾向于投资增加工作和税收的项目；甚至愿意放宽使英国大多数城市土地价格居高不下的规划限制。

What first kicked off Chicago's vertical boom was land prices.

最先拉开芝加哥垂直繁荣序幕的是地价。

Relatively speaking, land prices are still pretty cheap here.

【relatively】相对来说，这里的土地价格还相当便宜。

Yet though land prices can soar 200-fold when planning permission is granted, councils cannot extract much of the increased value to spend on services.

然而尽管建筑许可证的颁发使房价翻了200番，议会却无法将增值的大部分用之于服务。

The other reserved sections—8, 11, 26, and 29—were held by the federal government for later sale with the expectation that the land prices would increase.

其他保留地段——8、11、26 和 29——由联邦政府持有，以备日后出售， 预计地价会上涨。

John Fletcher had always been an enterprising man, and when land prices skyrocketed at the end of the 1860s and early 1870s, he joined in the frenzy of speculation.

约翰·弗莱彻一直是一个有进取心的人，当1860年代末和1870年代初地价飞涨时，他加入了投机的狂潮。

Land prices were inflating to the point where locals were unable to sustain themselves, thus being forced to migrate out to other provinces in order to look for work or trade.

土地价格上涨到当地人无法维持生计的地步，因此被迫迁移到其他省份寻找工作或贸易。

In Japan in the early 1990s a collapse in land prices, the preferred collateral of domestic banks, led to a slow-burning series of financial crises that lasted for longer than a decade.

在 1990 年代初期，日本国内银行首选的抵押品——土地价格暴跌导致了一系列缓慢燃烧的金融危机，持续了十多年。

Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100,000 a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as agricultural incomes tumble.

现在每年大约有 100,000 人迁移到农村地区，即使在农业收入下降的情况下， 对体验农村生活的渴望也使土地价格保持上涨。