Overseas Property Investment

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

Madrid office rents have fallen 30% since the crisis began, but still rents have risen, which shows just how much prices of commercial property have been eroded in Spain. But still the consensus indicates that investors should be waiting for a little while yet before pouncing on the bottomed market.   77% of the 154 [...]

PETALING JAYA: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has bought a commercial building in central London from Union Investment for £148mil. It marks the EPF’s third property investment there since announcing an allocation of £1bil for British property purchases, Savills Rahim & Co said. EPF confirmed the deal. Union Investment, a Germany-based fund, is one of [...]

Madrid office rents have fallen 30% since the crisis began, but still rents have risen, which shows just how much prices of commercial property have been eroded in Spain. But still the consensus indicates that investors should be waiting for a little while yet before pouncing on the bottomed market.   77% of the 154 [...]

Siegfried Borst (left) and Zainal Ashikin Muhammad Rejab looking at a model of pre-war shop houses made of Lego bricks. NUSAJAYA: Legoland Development, the operator of Legoland Malaysia Theme Park being built here, expects to see one million visitors passing through its gates in the first year of operations. Legoland Malaysia Project senior director of [...]

The dream of homeownership is very much alive in the emerging world. The financial crisis that began in 2007 had its roots in excesses in the housing market that remained unresolved in 2010 and that will continue to roil economies in 2011 and beyond. Everybody now knows about America’s dodgy “subprime” mortgages (the term says [...]

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%) [...]