Overseas Property Investment

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

Shopping centers and German investors are driving recovery in French commercial real estate, with transaction volumes for 2010 so far already approaching the total for all of 2009. Viewed as a safe asset, retail is catching up with office investment in terms of market share, but cautious consumers and…

Germany posted its ninth consecutive month of year-over-year growth, largely due to government support, rising mortgages and economic growth. Analysts expect Germany to experience slower home price growth in the period ahead as the economy expands at a slower pace. See the following article from Global…

The approximately 76 million members of the baby boomer generation show a great interest in retiring to Central America. Most of these retirees will head for Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Belize or Brazil, all of which have beautiful beaches that thousands of Americans have already discovered. But only a few of these countries [...]

Reports have pointed out that property in Japan is currently a very popular with global investors, with 2.2 billion US Dollars already invested this year. Residential property in Tokyo is being noted as among the most popular, alongside hotels and offices in Tokyo. “Hotels, Tokyo offices, Tokyo residential, I would say, will be the three [...]

Emerging markets are by far the best place in the world for expats to live according to the latest HSBC Expat Economics report for 2010, which compares expats’ wealth. The report compares the number of expats earning over $200,000 per year, the number with disposable income of more than $3000 per month, the number who [...]

The latest profile of international activity in the US housing market published by the National Association of Realtors has revealed many interesting figures, some surprising and some not so surprising. The biggest finding for us was in the state by state breakdown of foreign purchases. According to the report, Florida (22%), California (12%), Arizona (11%) [...]

An Austrian developer is to become the first to build on the famous come infamous Dubai World Islands — an archipelago of islands loosely matched to a map of the world; loosely in that the islands are in roughly the same place as the corresponding country on the map, but the islands are not shaped [...]

European commercial property investors concerned about government debt are finding new appeal in the Polish and Nordic markets. Overall, commercial real estate activity in Europe increased 15 percent in the second quarter, but predominantly in France, Germany and the UK. See the following article from…

With over 330 exhibitors, the 11th Malaysia Architecture, Interior Design and Building Exhibition (Archidex 2010) is not to be missed — at least not by architects, interior designers, developers, quantity surveyors, engineers and other professionals in the building industry from the region. The ongoing exhibition at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in KL ends tomorrow. [...]

One thing that this global recession and accompanying housing crash has shown us is that the ultimate in prime property will hold its value, and in fact grow during such times. We recently profiled the most expensive homes in the world, and compared it to a similar list we compiled in 2008. Not only did [...]