Overseas Property Investment

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

9 August 2010, Asia — The Asian real estate investment market showed signs of continuing to make steady improvement in the first half of 2010 with direct real estate investment in the region rising 136% year-on-year during the period to be recorded at an estimated US$30 billion. Although activity levels rose significantly in virtually every [...]

Many overseas property agents could will and should be excited by a new event announced this week. Global Edge have partnered with AiGroup — the Russian media company behind Russia’s biggest overseas property portal (1-property.ru) — to set up and host Russian Summit, a chance for the world’s overseas property agents to learn about the [...]

A new event to be held in Moscow on 11th & 12th November aims to help international agents break into the potentially lucrative Russian buyer market. Russian Summit brings together some of the biggest agents working in international real estate in Russia such as Intermark Savills, Knight Frank Russia and Gordon Rock; with an audience [...]

Greater China leads regional growth in demand for premium office 4 August 2010 Asia — Asia’s leading commercial centres recorded impressive growth in office demand in the second quarter of 2010 as the steady regional economic recovery encouraged multinational companies to reactivate expansion plans suspended earlier after the onset of the global financial crisis, according [...]

China’s Real Estate Bubble Threatens to Burst [Spiegel] The World’s Richest Man’s New Mansion [Forbes] Billionaire Slim’s Firm Pays $44 Million for Landmark Manhattan Mansion [Bloomberg] The Aftermath Of The Global Housing Bubble Chokes The World Banking System [Business Insider] Reckless Europe beats reckless America at property bubbles [Telegraph] Brazil’s Government Focusing More On Attracting [...]

A survey by a US realtors group has highlighted a remarkable rise in the number of Asian and Asian-Americans buying houses in the US. The consensus is that the demographic primarily avoided being caught in the housing crash, because they tend to be conservative towards property purchases, and that now they are capitalising on the [...]

Further evidence has emerged that the Chinese government’s efforts to cool the housing market are finally bearing fruit. According to the government index of 70 cities, house prices fell 0.1% in June compared to May, the first month on month decline since March last year according to experts. Experts believe that this is the first [...]

Research by leading London Estate Agent Knight Frank has revealed that the number of nationalities buying up prime property (£2 million+) in London has risen to 51, as buyers from far-flung destinations like Malaysia, Iran and Brazil join the traditional Russian and club-med buyers in taking advantage of the weak pound. According to the data, [...]

Yahoo Real Estate has entered into a partnership with what would seem to be one of its main competitors, Zillow.com. The keywords there being “seem to be”. This is because before the partnership Yahoo had focussed on selling ads from large mortgage and credit agencies, whereas Zillow was a listings (property portal) site through and [...]

Bahrain is being noticed as one of the best property markets in the Middle East for foreign investment. The Middle East is a surprisingly popular property investment and relocation destination because of the wealth and job opportunities. Dubai was the number one spot for this before the crash, but now people are being put off [...]