Overseas Property Investment

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

With the UK’s property market still looking a little gloomy, it seems there may be a glimmer of hope peeking through in the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) property market. NetMovers, the UK’s leading commission free property portal who let people sell property online, have announced a larger growth this year than in any of [...]

Knowing — or maybe believing is a better word — that property markets and economies around the world are on the way back up sure is a nice feeling. It may be a short-lived feeling, because according to some there are signs that the short-lived positivity will end as quickly as it begun.
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Regular readers to the site will know that this is the next installment in a series of articles giving how to tips on buy to let property investment abroad, the first covered the potential pitfalls of buy to let investment abroad, and the second covered the potential pitfalls of buying off plan property overseas.

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Having been dropping like a stone thanks to the global economic crisis, Dubai property prices have finally risen again, according to real estate consultancy Colliers International – by 7% in the third quarter. This is the first rise since the emirate’s property market crashed at the end of 2008. Investors who bought during the boom [...]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city’s central bank, last month imposed tighter mortgage restrictions, which Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said were to stave off a big property bubble following soaring prices this last year. He told attendees at a business lunch: “We do not want to see a huge property bubble developing [...]

West Side Village is a gated community of over 686 apartments in the prime location of Hurghada’s city centre. Hurghada is Egypt’s, and one of the world’s fastest-growing property hot-spots, situated on the increasingly popular Red Sea Riviera.

Overview
West Side Village is designed for all-year-round living, not just as a holiday resort. It offers the option [...]

South Florida property developer Joe Milton has put up $100 million of his company’s cash to set up a mortgage company to fund loans for foreign buyers, because foreign buyers are often locked out of the market if they don’t have cash. Although sixty percent of Milton’s buyers are foreign, the few loans that [...]

A worrying trend appears to be emerging in Ireland – overseas ‘property investors’ seem to be walking away from their foreign property investments in their droves.
People who bought during the boom years are now finding the value of their properties has slumped to the point that they are having to simply hand their keys back [...]

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 [...]

Around the world the recession is easing, or, at least according to economic indicators that is what is happening.
Much of Europe emerged from recession in the second quarter, including the big duo of France and Germany. Most of the rest followed in Q3 including Italy. US GDP grew 0.9% in the third quarter, and Italy’s [...]