20th May 2008
Where to live is an issue everybody thinks of when looking to acquire a home. Those buying somewhere to live will usually spend time researching the area they are moving into and making a judgement on a variety of criteria, be that the proximity of local ...
20th May 2008
With so many destinations for those buying investment property overseas being hit by the credit crunch, emerging markets are attracting plenty of attention. Cape Verde is among these, although it would be quite incorrect to suggest that it is becoming pop...
20th May 2008
Its official: the housing market is in crisis. At least, this is the not-so private view of housing minister Caroline Flint. If she had hoped to keep her briefing to the cabinet on the subject under wraps today, she might have done better than hold her no...
13th May 2008
The overseas property market has plenty of diversity, which may be both a weakness and a strength. For those failing to carry out the right research, the enticement of an investment without a full understanding of the type of person who might occupy it, f...
13th May 2008
Location, location, location may have been a well-worn phrase even before it became the name of a TV programme, but many will wonder whether this is indeed the be-all and end all for those investing in property, either as a place to live or as a place to ...
11th May 2008
There is supposed to be a credit crunch going on, but some parts of the world, it seems, are not getting the message. While Spain has outlined a major rescue plan in a bid to boost its property industry, the Lusophone countries seem to be attracting the b...
11th May 2008
These are interesting times in London for the property industry to say the least. While both the commercial property investment industry and the residential sector (both buy-to-live and buy-to-let) have been grappling with the credit crunch in recent mont...
08th May 2008
What is the future of international property investment? In an age when many countries have only recently opened up politically and economically, the possibilities seem far more extensive than they were a generation ago. This has seen plenty of excitement...
08th May 2008
Up until today it had not seemed to be a good week for news emanating from the Bank of England.
Firstly, we had the news that in March the number of mortgages approved had dropped from 72,000 in February to just 64,000. Then yesterday brought governor M...
08th May 2008
Cyprus has been one of the apparent success stories in overseas property investment terms in recent years, with rising prices, the economic kudos of first joining the European Union and then adopting the euro as its national currency, followed by the tant...
08th May 2008
This week brought what appeared to be some positive news amid the gloom of falling house prices, as the Bank of England told the world it believed the worst of the credit crunch had passed and that a return of confidence in the coming months was justified...
08th May 2008
Portugal has been the subject of plenty of attention in recent months, not least as an alternative Iberian destination to Spain. Providing high quality accommodation rather than pile-them-high blocks of flats on the Costas is one way the country can be tr...
08th May 2008
Reading the latest stories of the alleged impending property apocalypse, it may seem to some that it is rather easy to ignore certain things that are going on in the market. What so many people involved in the buy-to-let industry really think and are plan...
07th May 2008
The news today appears to have been rather bad if one only considers good news to be increases in house prices. For those looking to sell or borrow against the value of their house it certainly is, but less so for those looking to buy.
For first-time buy...
07th May 2008
When it comes to investing in property overseas, a number of emerging markets have caught the eye in recent years. Some have been eastern European markets, which some have embraced while others have said are subject to deep uncertainty. Others have looked...
