Overseas Property Investment

The most recent canada property investment news from a variety of international property news sources.

With the world’s attention turning to the Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada, a major ski venue in the Games is facing foreclosure. Olympic officials insist the situation poses a minimal threat of disrupting events, and Canada’s government would reportedly intervene to prevent that embarrassment…

KUALA LUMPUR: Sunrise Bhd wants to expand into markets where there aren’t many Malaysian developers, said executive chairman Datuk Tong Kooi Ong.
“Every Tom, Dick and Harry has gone to Vietnam. There are (other) countries that have a lot of potential … where there aren’t many Malaysian players,” he said at an analyst briefing yesterday when [...]

A string of monthly price gains for new housing, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, raises the prospect of a bubble in Canada’s real estate market. But the Bank of Canada has been quick to quash any concerns, attributing the recent rally to pent-up demand and affordable financing rather than credit…

Canada’s real estate market continues to rebound, and property investment is quickly regaining its appeal, sparking a turnaround and driving housing sales and prices from Toronto to Montreal and Vancouver. The momentum from 2009’s strong finish, spurred by attractive lending rates and renewed consumer…

Back in September, we blogged about TweetLister a new and innovative real estate listing service that list properties for sale and rent via the micro-blogging platform – Twitter. Quite a lot has changed at TweetLister since our last feature. So we asked Lloyd Chrein (pictured on the right), a founding Partner at TweetLister.com to update [...]

I attended the wake of a distant family member who passed away earlier this year. As we sat in his car porch, drinking our mineral water and muttering platitudes, a family member stood up and declared, “good riddance to bad rubbish” and then sat down again, looking satisfied. Much as I admire and enjoy eccentric [...]

Sunny weather and azure coasts are well-represented in this list of the top 10 locations worldwide to buy a retirement home. The list includes tropical locations like Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica and St. Lucia, along with the home for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancover, Canada. See the following article…

The Gulf city state’s debt problems offer an important lesson – unpredictable, unsustainable and unclear policies are a no-no.
After two difficult years, most come away with the thought that financial markets the world over should have stabilised. Sure, the extraordinary steps taken to stop the panic resulted in flooding the global system with trillions of [...]

Progress toward recovery in the housing market has not been uniform, with Asia the clear winner, and the UAE and Eastern Europe lagging far behind. While the majority of world markets reported residential deflation for 2009, the most recent quarter reversed that trend, with the US, UK, Canada and Germany…

TA GLOBAL Bhd is teaming up with Townline Gardens Inc, a Canadian home builder, to develop a C$130 million (RM422.5 million) mixed-development project over seven years.
A joint-venture agreement between TA Development One (Canada) Ltd, a 100 per cent unit of TA Global, and Townline Gardens Inc was signed yesterday.
Under the agreement, TA will hold a [...]