13th February 2008
When it comes to property investment, Germany appears to represent a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, it is a well-known fact that the country does not have the sort of property-owning culture that the UK does. Less than half of Germans own their own ...
13th February 2008
Those looking at the possibilities of investing in property in UK will be concerned with many issues. One will be the economy as a whole, with some doom-mongers still predicting that Britain will catch America's cold and plunge into recession. Others may ...
11th February 2008
Those looking at overseas property investments in areas such as the Swiss Alps property may have a somewhat more complex choice to make than in days of yore. Where once it was a matter of finding attractive chalets in a snowy location for the winter, much...
11th February 2008
Spain has been written off many times of late. The market, many have said, is a busted flush, a one-time hotspot which has now seen the boom fade away and companies that depended upon it folding. Other locations, it has been claimed, are now offering far ...
11th February 2008
Investors in property looking to make a good return can do so in many locations in France, be it the popular sand and sun resorts of the Cote D'Azur, the wine regions, the hustle and glamour of Paris or the new London commuter belt across the channel that...
11th February 2008
Investors looking for the best opportunities in buy-to-let property the UK may be best off deciding to follow those who study hard.
This is doubly so, according to property consultancy King Sturge. Partly it is a case of studying where the market is and...
11th February 2008
Cyprus has been in the news often enough for its property in recent times, with prices rising and British investors to the fore. The connections between Britain and Cyprus are clear enough, with the island being in the Commonwealth, using right-hand drive...
11th February 2008
As interest rate decisions go, today's verdict by the Bank of England monetary policy committee (MPC) was perhaps the most widely predicted for some time. In the last week, an Adfero poll of seven economists and a Reuters survey of 60 both produced unanim...
11th February 2008
Of all the British cities to see major redevelopment in the past few years, Manchester property has possibly been the most transformed. While Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham have all built plenty of flats and sought to reinvent themselves, Manchester has ...
07th February 2008
Those looking at investing in property will doubtless have been paying much attention to the possible movements in the UK base rate. Recent comments by the Bank of England governor Mervyn King, speaking to an audience in Bristol, stated that there may be ...
07th February 2008
The possibilities that France offers for French property investors, holidaymakers, cross-channel commuters and emigrants alike have all been talked about at length in recent months. Still one of the two largest markets for UK investors, Britain's nearest ...
06th February 2008
After all the recent negative press about buy-to-let in the UK, the industry may be in better shape than some imagine, it seems.
This news may not be much of a revelation to those who have seen the optimistic outlooks presented by the recent surveys from...
06th February 2008
That the property market in Spain faces changes is well known. The last few years saw a major boom in property market Spain which had to slow in the end and finally did in the last year. The country, like most, has had to face up to the credit crunch. In ...
06th February 2008
While Spain has long been the most popular destination for Britons buying overseas, be they buy-to-let investors, holiday home purchasers or ex-pats retiring to the sun, at least one of its neighbours has been doing nearly as well.
As it happens, that ne...
06th February 2008
While Spain has long been the most popular destination for Britons buying overseas, be they buy-to-let investors, holiday home purchasers or ex-pats retiring to the sun, at least one of its neighbours has been doing nearly as well.
As it happens, that ne...
