02nd November 2009
With the pound and euro continuing to strengthen relative to the dollar, your hard earned cash can now stretch very far indeed. If you wanted $60,000 in late May it would have cost you around €45,000/£40,000. Now it will cost €40,000/£36,500. That's...
09th October 2009
I recently read a great quote from Noel Whittaker (Australian financial columnist). It struck me as particularly relevant for those who are unsure of where or how to make their next important financial move.
“Life is full of uncertainties. Future in...
09th October 2009
We’re now in the final quarter of 2009, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year for businesses. This year is radically different to most of course, because we’re still trying to get out of a severe recession. Others might call it a slowdow...
28th September 2009
As Dusty Springfield famously sang, "the world goes round without even a sound, and it looks like summer is over".
Dusty was spot on regarding the second part of that lyric but the property and financial worlds were making plenty of noise over the pa...
17th September 2009
Like many Irish people living abroad, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the political and economic situation back home. Unfortunately it looks increasingly likely that Ireland is going to be very volatile over the next 6-12 months. The Lisbon Treat...
18th July 2009
After a (very) long winter, spring seems to have brought a touch of sunshine to American house prices. The latest Case Shiller indices were released last week and they showed that average prices continued to fall in April 2009: the ten city index was 0.7%...
09th July 2009
As many of you will be aware, investors have been purchasing foreclosed properties in places like Orlando, Florida since early 2008. They have been doing this because it is an excellent way of purchasing an undervalued buy to let asset.
However it can...
19th June 2009
A new trend seems to be emerging in certain property circles. Several times in the past six months I have seen evidence of hardened investors who have always pursued an offplan investment strategy considering a radical change.
The profitable strategy ...
22nd April 2009
I attended an overseas property trade show called OPP Live a few months ago. This was the fourth year I've been to the show and as usual it was very well organized and I met a lot of old friends plus a wide variety of interesting people who work in the in...
17th April 2009
Like many of our readers and clients, I'm the type of person who tunes in regularly to radio chat shows, current affairs programs and newspaper reports on how the global turbulence is affecting our house prices, our labour markets, our stock markets and o...
17th April 2009
Like many of our readers and clients, I'm the type of person who tunes in regularly to radio chat shows, current affairs programs and newspaper reports on how the global turbulence is affecting our house prices, our labour markets, our stock markets and o...
13th April 2009
Firstly, as you will notice below - we are now offering single family homes (a detached home with driveway, garage, backyard etc.) in Orlando in addition to the condo’s we have been promoting (an apartment with common areas shared by owners). As with e...
