Overseas Property Investment

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Slovenia property for sale is becoming popular with overseas property investors looking for overseas property investment. Slovenia property investment has become more popular than ever, since Slovenia was named in the top ten countries in the world in terms of property investment – with forecast growth of up to 280% over the next 10 years.

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Gaining financial security is the main reason why most people turn to property, which is no surprise because property has been and continues to be one of the most solid investments around.
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Investing in property represents the best reward vs. risk investment you can make for you and your family. It’s commonly known that pensions are giving poor returns, so whilst other investments are failing to deliver, property investment in the UK and overseas continues to grow.

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  • Bargain-hunters Gain as Spanish Costas Cool
    A slow down in construction has led to buying opportunities. From the Financial Times.
  • On a Greek Isle, Preserving Tradition
    A couple transforms a building on the Greek island of Poros. From the New York Times.
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    Spain’s soaraway property market has ended its decade-long boom, new figures show, with prices falling for the first time in many parts of the country.

     

    In the country as a whole, prices inched up by just 0.3 percent in the third quarter of the year, the smallest increase since 2000. But prices fell in 13 of Spain’s 50 provinces, including many popular with British homeowners.

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    Gazing into our crystal ball, this is a list of likely overseas property investment markets that should do well in 2008, assuming that the current financial disaster in process in the US does not spread like a disease across the world – which does look like a strong possibility.

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    Abu Dhabi is closely following Dubai’s recent example, but with a few strong exceptions that are making Abu Dhabi look by far the better investment

    prospect:

    1. Culture. Abu Dhabi already has satellites of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museum with more cultural attractions planned, including a Formula 1 race track complex that dwarfs the Dubai track.

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    The image “http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/wp-content/uploads/World-map-2004-cia-factbook-large-2m%20copy.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.It Is True What They Say: Location, Location, Location! It is such a trite old statement; But there is a reason why sayings get old and trite. They are true!

    As a new real estate investor beginning your investment career you will have dozens of decisions to make and we will be there to help you make the right ones and, while it might cost money, it might cost time; you can correct most of your missteps.

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    Steven Toumbas, an equities investor from London, has always wanted to own a second home in the US. “America is the engine for the world,” he says. “Everyone wants to have a holiday home in Florida, or an asset in New York. It’s the place to be.”

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    Real estate has historically been viewed as a local phenomenon. Builders and investors for decades prided themselves in their ability to find the best “location, location, location” based on their local knowledge. It is among the least “tradable” of products, in the sense of being physically unmovable, even though it can be bought and sold both domestically and internationally. This combination of local knowledge and predominantly local tradeability was the primary reason why discussions of globalization in the 1990s and earlier, overlooked the real estate industry as a possible participant in the ongoing phenomenon of increasing global economic integration. Although an occasional headline would be grabbed by a foreign purchase of a local landmark (New York’s Rockefeller Center, Arco Plaza in Los Angeles, and even the Pebble Beach resort), the business itself remained largely local, with US firms dominating in US markets, and foreign firms in foreign markets.More on Globalization and the Real Estate Industry: Issues, Implications, Opportunities

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    We ran a photo series recently on the Palms Dubai development. And something came to our attention that we hadn’t really noticed when we’d been researching the article – there are no people in the photographs. Now that could have been just a factor of timing, but further research has shown that somewhere in the region of 90 % of the development has been sold to property speculators who have no intention of living there. Whilst this is certainly an ambitious project, we do wonder what the long term effects both on the local marine wildlife and also the human immigrants, if any.

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