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Investing in Property – News and Markets August 09

Mark Knowles — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:48:36 +0000

Real estate sales in Jordan plummet; Qatar house rents have fallen 35%; Dubai prices fall 17%; Hawaii’s luxury condo market hit by swine flu fears and recession; Hugh Hefner needs to sell a house as financial problems increase.

If anyone was thinking of believing the twisted statistics being pumped out by the governments and newspapers, this is a representative selection of headlines that might persuade you that perhaps, just perhaps, the problems are not all over in the housing markets.

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Investing in Property in Dubai – No shortage of new developments

Mark Knowles — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:25:14 +0000

The volume of property sales in Dubai is poised to rise as more global investors enter the Gulf markets, said Blair Hagkull, MD of Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate investment and advisory firm. Dubai is projected to record a 55.2% increase in property deals to hit $195 billion in 2008.

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Improvement in Mumbai’s Infrastructure…Spells Boom in Property Market

Praveen Sequeira — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:09:49 +0000

Since the 1990’s, the property market in the Indian subcontinent has witnessed a vast change. In the early 90s, people in India, especially those residing in the tinsel town could not even afford to dream of purchasing a property but with the gradual increase of income and the home loans made easy for all, the property market in Mumbai saw a sharp rise.

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