If you enjoy spending your free time looking through a pair of binoculars in a bid to catch a glimpse of a rare or particularly attractive bird then you'll want to find property abroad in a location that allows you to keep up the pastime - and offers new opportunities. One of the beauties of [...]
I don't know about you, but when I am planning to make a major purchase I like to way up the pros and cons of each choice before making a decision. And if a property isn't a major purchase I don't know what is. So, I thought the readers of this blog might like to [...]
The world has been forever changed by the aptly named credit crunch. As emerging markets lead the global recovery, they will be the dominant force in the global economy within 3 years, measured by purchasing power parity, according to HSBC. Turkey is one of the hottest of those emerging markets. HSBC made the statement mentioned [...]
Property in Turkey is more popular than ever in the world of overseas property. Before the credit crunch Turkey was a popular and growing tourist destination, and very popular with holiday home buyers. But at the time, the focus was on the investment benefits of overseas property, and, in this regard, Turkey had one problem. [...]
Think of island living and you think of Richard Branson, who bought a piece of paradise in the Virgin Islands, or Brad and Angelina, who snapped up an island in Dubai. “But the rest of us don't need to be billionaires to enjoy the island lifestyle. Sovalye Island, a mere hop, skip and jump away [...]
The level of material, information, national press news and opinion articles, and blog posts recommending investment in Turkish property has grown hugely in the past 12 months. Actually, no, that doesn’t do the situation justice. The level of coverage has been increasing slowly for some time, and continued even during the global recession. This accelerated [...]
Turkish property is set to continue benefiting from rapidly increasing accessibility from airlines around the world. According to the well respected Anna.Aero publication, Ryanair has signalled its desire to make Turkey the focus of its next round of expansions. There has been no specifics given at this stage, but past announcements suggest that when Ryanair [...]
The latest release of data from Turkstat shows, not only that tourism is up this year on last year, but, more importantly that tourism revenues have increased by a substantial margin — this is of course more important, because it has been a major aim of the authorities to attract higher wealth tourists and increase [...]
In the first quarter of this year, income from tourism in Turkey was down 2.2% compared to the same period of last year, according to the latest data available from Turkstat. This is a major surprise, given that income in the fourth quarter of last year was 11.6% higher than the fourth quarter of 2008. [...]
Istanbul is to become the site of the latest new marina in Turkey, as the country hopes to increase the revenues from its incoming tourists, by becoming attractive to the high-end tourist. Dati Holdings is to build the $16 million (estimated) marina in the Ataköy district of Istanbul. The ParkMarina project will include restaurants, residences, [...]