The Spanish property market is about to get a kick-start form the newly elected ‘People’s Party’ according to new information. The party are looking to reduce the tax paid by anyone who buys property in Spain as well as make the rental prospects better and more inviting to encourage buy-to-let investors. It is estimated that [...]
Despite the number of properties sold in Portugal, and taking into consideration their value, the ‘luxury’ property market prices fell by between 10 per cent and 15 per cent over the last year. A study into ‘The Luxury Tourist Report Property Market’ found that despite these falls; the Golden Triangle in the Algarve has remained [...]
The credit crisis has seen a marked change in how overseas buyers buy property in Spain. Gone are the days of hefty deposits and off-plan purchases waiting several years for the developer to complete the property. Today’s buyer can pick up a brand new property on a five star resort at under half its original [...]
More and more people than ever are turning to renting in New Zealand, because the average property price to buy is so high. It is also becoming easier to borrow money which means the outlook is good for lower interest rates, thus creating a greater turnover and more borrower demand. The latest report from Roost [...]
Fans of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing will have welcomed the Italian flair brought to this year’s competition by Nancy Dell’Olio, but how many people know which part of Italy the ex-partner of former England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson comes from? Despite being born in New York, Nancy’s family moved back to their native Puglia [...]
Opportunities to buy quality new ski homes in smaller, less developed French resorts have become available following the launch of a handful of leaseback projects by a leading Alpine developer. Developer MGM currently has property for sale in Val Cenis in the Haute-Maurienne, Valmorel within the Grand Domaine ski area and Montgenèvre, close to [...]
Homeowners and businesses on Barbados are celebrating the progress being made to make the entire island a free wifi zone, after a report revealed 60 per cent of the population now has access to the internet. As part of a drive to encourage more businesses to set up in Barbados, local business organisation the Barbados [...]
If you’re looking to spend less on a rustic overseas property than on a new car, you’d be hard pressed to find somewhere in Europe with more choice than Bulgaria, according to a recent report. In the rural areas of Yambol and Elhovo, the average amount spent on a home in Q3 2011 was around [...]
It has been predicted that, should the European meltdown cause a worldwide credit crunch, property prices in Australia could fall by a further 25 per cent. The Economist magazine has stated that global property prices are still very much over-valued: “The latest global house price indicators are now falling in eight of the 16 countries [...]
November figures from the Land Registry Office in Turkey show that more people from the UK than any other foreign nation own property in Turkey. Of the 123,000 foreigners that have property in the country, 35,656 are from the UK, while in second place are 28,306 from Germany and in third Greece with 10,859. The [...]