Pop star Madonna joins the ever-growing club of celebrities wowed enough by Italy’s culture and lifestyle to want a home there. The legendary singer has reportedly been looking at a multi-million-euro penthouse apartment overlooking a square on the market in Verona, Tuscany’s so-called “City of Love”. Leonardo di Caprio already owns in Verona, while Brad [...]
Scots with second homes in Crete and Rhodes are looking forward to improved air access to their Greek bolt holes, after budget airline Jet2.com announced it is to begin flights to the two islands in May next year. The new routes will fly from Glasgow to Heraklion on Crete’s northern coast and Rhodes. On sale [...]
Anyone hunting for a ski home in France will welcome the launch of a new direct train from London St Pancras to Moutiers in the Savoie region of the Alps. The service kicks off on December 17 and will take passengers within 30 minutes of some of France’s best resorts, including Méribel. Bringing more good [...]
Travelling to the northern part of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast is to get easier following an announcement to convert an inactive military airport in Balchik into a civil airport. Homeowners and holidaymakers staying in some of Bulgaria’s most popular beach resorts, including Balchik, Golden Sands, Kranevo and Albena, will have a much shorter transfer time [...]
It might be easier to live an exotic, tax-free life next to a beach than you first thought, since the Bahamas made it easier for foreigners to become resident and own businesses there. As part of an initiative to attract foreign residents, regulations in the Bahamas now allow visitors, renters or homeowners to stay [...]
Foreign investors accounted for 33% of all commercial property transactions in Australia for the first nine months of 2011, representing the highest percentage since 1994. A recent report also showed that these purchases totalled an impressive AUS$2.15 billion. Investment from overseas is expected to continue growing, with July to September already seeing 41% of transactions [...]
With 11% percent growth in the first quarter Turkey became the fastest growing economy in the world, leaving Argentina and China behind with 9.9% and 9% growth respectively. This growth slowed to 8.8% in the second quarter, but this was still sufficient for Turkey to become the fastest growing economy for the first six months [...]
Sales of homes, condos and townhouses in Las Vegas were close to an all-time record in August. The news comes from the GLVAR (Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors), which reported that August saw 4,693 homes sold in Las Vegas. The sudden surge of interest in the area has been credited to the low interest [...]
New laws proposed in Turkey could allow foreign buyers from anywhere in the world to buy and sell property there. Currently Turkey’s foreign ownership law is based on reciprocal agreements with other countries - property may only be sold to foreign nationals of countries in which Turkish nationals are allowed to own property. Under the [...]
Getting to the Costa Brava, an area of Spain popular with holiday homeowners, is set to get easier this winter after Monarch Airlines announced new flights to Barcelona. The new scheduled flights between Gatwick and Barcelona can be booked now and will operate daily from 21 October 2011. This will increase to 11 flights per [...]