Overseas Property Investment

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

We all love Mugla, although not all of us that love it actually know it. Mugla encapsulates several of Turkey’s top tourist resort towns/overseas property hotspots, places loved by many, but not so many of whom know Turkey’s provincial divides. Mugla has just been ranked 5th in the Top Trending Regions…

Florida’s real estate market is about to get messy! That sounds like something the voiceover for a move trailer would say but it is actually happening in real life. We all know that Florida has one of the biggest foreclosure levels in America — which means in the world as well –, but few would [...]

There is a question at the moment, like some sort of mystical force may be at play; over why the UK buy to let scene is currently thriving beyond belief. It is simple economics: Hardly anyone is buying a home right now, for reasons to be explained below. And home builders are hardly building, primarily [...]

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the hottest property markets in the world right now. Most people who buy overseas property do not do so to live in it; some buy as purely an investment, and others buy a holiday home. However, leaving a property thousands of miles away sitting empty is not a good idea, [...]

The strength of the Brazilian Real against the Dollar is giving Brazilians more buying power in the US property market than they have had for a generation. Because of this the growing Brazilian middle class is buying up Florida properties, mainly in Miami, according to a Folha de São Paulo study released Monday. Further than [...]

UK: Rise in mortgage lending ‘fuelled by remortgaging’ [Guardian] UK government signs up builders, lenders for loan scheme [Reuters] Donald Trump: I want Sean Connery to open my golf course [Telegraph] Goldman Sachs’s Jonathan Egol Buys Manhattan Apartment for $3.72 Million [Bloomberg] Dubai homeowners face legal limbo over building upkeep [Arabian Business] Malaysian-born Chong among [...]

Buyers of property in the U.S. and some parts of Europe can avail themselves of easy-to-use tools to establish fair market value, but those tools may not be available in many locations around the globe. Oftentimes buyers fail to do the legwork necessary in a foreign location to uncover the hidden costs…

Foreigners bought $82 billion worth of American property in the 12 months ending March 2011 according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors. A 24% increase on last year. Canadians led the way with a dominant 23% of all foreign sales going to Canadian buyers, China came in second with 9% and [...]

Credits: Timo via Flickr $65,600. a few years ago that would have bought you a property where I live. Now, that is the average price of a property in Monaco, per square meter. The figure comes from the latest release of Knight Frank’s global index of luxury property prices. According to the index London is [...]

This month, as part of its “the 10 Best” series the Observer has attempted to chart the world’s top 10 tall buildings, and according to critics hasn’t done a particularly good job. 1: The Chrysler Building, New York Credits: Flickr It all starts wonderfully with the gorgeous Chrysler building in New York. The Chrysler building [...]