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March 17, 2010 - Gotta Make Bamboo
Bamboo flooring is rising rapidly in popularity as people become more ecologically aware than ever before. This — along with its unique properties — makes bamboo investments among the highest yielding of all alternative investment products, according to international property investment consultancy Property Frontiers. Director of the firm David Cox said:
“Bamboo flooring is most definitely [...]
March 16, 2010 - Portugal To Top The Charts In 2010
Portugal property has been tipped to be in the top 3 most popular with foreign buyers of overseas property in 2010, in a new survey ran by Savills and Home Away. The official PDF report of the survey’s findings, which was the largest ever gauge of foreign homeowners’ opinions, featured the following statement:
“The bulk of [...]
March 15, 2010 - Grenada Property Is As Good As Gold
There have been several reports in the industry press this week that Caribbean and particularly Grenada property, as well as other similarly high end markets are being purchased by people as a hedge against financial instability and currency devaluation.
Assets like Grenada property have been singled out as an alternative to the traditional asset people buy [...]
March 15, 2010 - Belize A Rocket To Top-It
Price reductions and rising tourism are combining to make Belize property a world beating investment an international property investment consultancy has claimed. David Cox, director of Property Frontiers said in a recent press release:
“Belize tourism has grown massively in the last 10 years, and there are signs emerging that growth is resuming now that the [...]
March 12, 2010 - Dubai Property Where She Blows Nobody Knows
This week’s news on the Dubai property scene is another mixed bag — isn’t it always at the moment? On the one hand you have a statement from the hardly-impartial Deyaar group — one of Dubai’s largest developers –, that says the recovery in the UAE property market (including Dubai) will begin in 2011.
On the [...]
March 11, 2010 - Algarve A Top Property Market
A new survey by Savills and HomeAway UK, Algarve property was one of the top sellers in 2009, and will continue to be one of the top sellers in 2010.
In the section of the report titled Where Do Britain’s Buy it said:
Based on the few transactions made in 2009, European countries have remained the preferred [...]
March 10, 2010 - Madeira To Bounce Back Hard
The Madeira property market is unlikely to be severely affected by the recent flash-floods that killed 42 people at the end of last month. Madeira property demand is very much fuelled by the tourism industry, which local developers have said will be only marginally affected, because of the speed and efficiency with which the cleanup [...]
March 9, 2010 - Florida The Land Of Hope And Discounts
Despite massively increasing sales, developers aren’t expected to completely remove the discounts on Florida property. According to an expert on the market it is much more likely that the discounts will become the norm, and the prices will increase from their current levels — this may or may not start happening soon.
When asked what effect [...]
March 8, 2010 - Affluence Increasing In Brazil
Brazil property owners and potential future owners got some very good news in the past week. A report by the Getulio Vargas Foundation has said that Brazil’s middle class has grown to 91million, a stonking 49% of the population.
This is good news for many different reasons:
Firstly the growing middle classes are demanding a higher calibre [...]
March 5, 2010 - Florida Property Market: A Goldmine Of Opportunity And A Conundrum
The Florida property market is currently a gold mine of opportunity for foreign investors. When the first repossessed properties in Florida began appearing on the international market (once the banks had sold the best ones to friends and families) at the beginning of last year, it immediately became apparent that there was some good opportunities [...]