Overseas Property Investment

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

A wealth of reports in the last few weeks have told us that, not only is overseas property an industry enjoying recovery, but also that it is a recovery based on and growing out of the recovery seen into the second half of 2009 and into 2010; a recovery based on increasing buyer variety, awareness…

The Spanish property market continues to suffer acutely according to the latest reports. Some 600,000 homes are currently languishing on the market unable to find a buyer, and a further 200,000 part-completed properties are in the same boat. Most of these are in the popular holiday areas. According to the Bank of Spain, house prices [...]

The most expensive single-family home ever sold in America has just been bought for $100 million by a Russian billionaire. The lush mansion in Silicon Valley has been compared to a French Chateau, thankfully they said on steroids because apart from its size, the mansion has little else in common with any Chateau! With 5 [...]

The French property market, reported to have trundled through the crisis much better than Spain, the UK, the US and many others is now thought to be 2 years into full recovery according to data. The Global Property Guide index, which is regarded as an accurate index because it measures prices after inflation recorded a [...]

Renting out a holiday property is an excellent way to help cover some of the operating costs, and if carefully managed, having the property in regular use can even reduce its maintenance costs. However, many people go into it wearing blinkers; thinking that it’s as simple as taking a few photos and sticking it up [...]

Property prices in Sao Paulo fell in the final months of 2010 but there is little cause for concern, especially given the rapid growth preceding the minor falls. In Brazil’s emerging market there is no such thing as an official indice, or even an indice as well respected as those of the UK lenders like [...]

Vancouver Canada is the best place in the world to live. This is according to the top 10 chart of the world’s most liveable cities revealed by the Economist Intelligence Unit. This is the fifth straight year that Vancouver, with its world class services and facilities has topped the chart. This time the report put [...]

A group of what you might call professional squatters, but would be more likely to call opportunistic anarchists have seized one of Colonel Gaddafi’s London Residences. The group calling itself “Topple the Tyrants” occupied the residence in Hampstead Garden Suburb on Wednesday. “Saif Gaddafi and the Gaddafi regime have taken millions of pounds, billions of [...]

The recovery seen in the global housing market in the latter part of 2009 and into 2010, has stalled badly in the latter part of 2010, according to the latest figures from the Global Property Guide. This is a blow for the industry and everyone involved in it, though it is truer to what economies [...]

Back on board the China property market rollercoaster as we ride into 2011. Before the last stop we watch a sub-index of property stocks on the Shanghai Composite Index slump 28% at the end of last year on the promise of new property taxes to curb growth. Now as it seems unlikely the taxes will [...]