August 6, 2009

• US Real Estate Shows Signs of Stability

  Residential property prices are soaring beyond expectations in many markets in the US with analysts and market observers starting to talk about a recovery and growing confidence in the real estate sector…
  Many are eagerly talking about a slowing of declines in home sales and median sales prices across the US. Phrases being used include ‘housing [...]

July 3, 2009

• Best Countries For Property Investment in 2009.

  Australia, China and Japan have topped the list of the best countries for property investment in an annual survey of the investment intentions of the world’s largest global real estate investors.
  Falling property prices and the lower Australian dollar has pushed the country to the top yet it wasn’t even mentioned in the Investment Intentions Asia [...]

July 1, 2009

• Smaller Homes Gain Popularity

  Property buyers in the US are looking at smaller places and are increasingly seeking out smaller homes that are cheaper to furnish and heat.
  As a result developers are looking to build smaller properties and make a point of offering well insulated homes and those with eco friendly features. They are also cheaper to build.
  Cheaper property [...]

January 15, 2009

• New International Real Estate Buyer Trends

  A pre-Christmas survey on Russian overseas property buyers by Russia’s leading international real estate magazine, International Residence, has produced some interesting findings.
  One of the main findings indicates that the number of Russian buyers for international real estate will increase despite the current financial downturn.
  A cross-section of subscribers were asked if the current situation would change [...]

November 29, 2008

• Florida Realtors Visit London

  A group of Florida realtors are set to attend overseas property trade show OPPLive in London next week to provide information to British investors looking to purchase property in the US state…
  Vice President of the Florida Association of Realtors John Sebree explained that the move is being made to help promote the benefit of purchasing [...]

November 17, 2008

• US Dollar and British Pound Exchange Rates Slow Property Investment

  Sterling at six year low and is moving towards a 20 year low but there yet.
  Dollar is still the favourite for defensive investors.
  Sterling lost 11 cents in the first four days of the week, touching below $1.46 on Thursday. Consolidation over the weekend allowed it to open in London this morning at $1.47, close to [...]

November 12, 2008

• Dubai Property Values Go Down 50 Percent

  Even Dubai, the seemingly invincible ‘nothing can stop me now’ emirate is feeling the effects of the credit crunch, with property prices in some of Dubai’s most prestigious developments falling by as much as 50 per cent.
  Prices in the Downtown Burj Dubai area have fallen by as much as half, according to Dubai based estate [...]

November 9, 2008

• UK Developer Announces $14 Million Give Away Competition

  Due to the global credit crunch a UK based developer has launched the biggest property competition of all time. In association with Great Ormond Street Hospital, MIA Developments Ltd is giving away a block of apartment in Central London valued at $14 million.
   
  It’s got to be one of the most innovative fundraising ideas ever – [...]

November 8, 2008

• How to Generate Property Buyer Leads on Internet

  The biggest difference between this recession and the last is the importance of natural search rankings.  Agents that rank highly for phrases that have intent to purchase have a much better chance of survival than those that do not.   Here are some tips:
  Unless you have an old, established site that already ranks well, don’t try [...]

October 30, 2008

• UK Developer Opens Business in South Carolina

  For many, the US at this moment is ripe for ‘buy low, sell high,’ but buying low does not mean simply buying something ‘cheap’…
  It also requires being selective about quality and location. Many developers of higher end properties have come up with ways of enticing investment in a changed yet ironically competitive investment landscape.
  UK [...]

October 22, 2008

• Emerging Markets Experience Real Estate Growth

  Emerging markets are demonstrating impressive growth. Out of the top 5 countries on Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index, 4 are emerging markets and all have price growth of over 25% for the year to Q2 2008.

  The International Monetary Fund forecasts that emerging market economies will grow by 7.4% in 2008, in contrast to 2.2% [...]

October 20, 2008

• UK Property Sales Projections and Investor Activities

  Knight Frank says we are now half way through the property crash and predicts sales volumes to hit their lowest point later this year…
  Forecasting the market for next year, it expects prices to fall 30 per cent from their peak, taking values back to September 2003 levels. It believes prices will continue to fall until [...]

October 19, 2008

• Canada Avoids Recession with Sound Financial System

  With the world bracing itself, as the global recession continues to bite with seemingly no sign of abating, Canadians it seems have been dealt a winning hand after an official think tank predicted that Canada will not follow suit. 
  This forecast was delivered by the combined resources of analysts within a leading bank, a think tank [...]

October 14, 2008

• Worldwide Mortgage Market To Recover Very Slowly

  Recovery in global property markets is likely to be slow as no one is predicting any fast movement in the bank lending systems despite unprecedented Government bailouts…
  The real cost of the finance crisis is slowly emerging today as banks in Europe reveal just how much they need to avoid going bust and concern grows about [...]

October 12, 2008

• International Buyer Searches in Florida Increase

  According to figures published by Rightmove.co.uk, the US is now more popular than both Italy and Portugal among users looking for overseas property. Property searches increased 42% year on year
  to take the United States third in the list, just behind Spain and France.
  According to Head of Rightmove Overseas, Justin Figgins, the results partly reflect a [...]

• Russian Property Buyer Searches

  There’s always someone with a story about a rich Russian buyer who rolls up and buys a bevy of developments with a suitcase full of banknotes at the full asking price. Where are these buyers when you really need them? Do they exist and where are looking to buy?
  To help us answer the last question, [...]

October 7, 2008

• Super Rich Still Buy High End Property

  New international property research revealed that the $5 million+ global property sector has become increasingly separated from the lower end property market. Although prices have been falling in most
  western markets, property prices in havens for the super-rich have remained impervious to falling stock markets and the credit crunch.
  Of the 20 super-prime locations detailed in the [...]

October 1, 2008

• French Financial Sector Resilient to Crisis

  French banks have historically been very cautious about who they lend money to, and to limit risks they have tended to spread their investments more widely than banks in the UK or the USA…
  Only 25 per cent of banking activity is investment and dealer-broker activity, the balance is all retail banking, and sensible banking at [...]

September 25, 2008

• Brazil Officially Called Middle Class Country

  According to the Economist Brazil is a bona fide middle class country based on the proportion of
  population with jobs, availability of credit, ownership of homes, cars and other high value items which rose dramatically in the last decade.

September 22, 2008

• Property Boom in Dubai

  UK mortgage lending declined 36% from last year and house prices are expected to fall further 15% this year and 12% in 2009 respectively.
  However the Brits are still very much active on international property market buying worldwide. One of the latest UK investor destinations is UAE, especially Dubai. International interest in UAE property has been [...]