Rent

  Rental properties can represent a great investment, but there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid if you’re to make your real estate ventures a success. For example, when it comes to kitting out the apartments or houses, it’s really important that you adopt a practical approach. Remember, you’re not decorating and furnishing the premises for yourself. Instead, the products and...

  Dubai is experiencing a shortage of affordable rental property which has driven rents up in both residential and commercial property. Dubai has over 27 million square feet of office space under construction. The Central Business District alone has office space totals to about 15.86 million square feet. Mr. Ian Albert, Regional Director, Colliers International remarked on the...

  Living in a cube or ‘living pods’ sounds like something from the future something you might see in a science fiction movie or on space station. For London students compact living pods are set to become reality by September 2007. A huge development called Nido (Italian for nest) is currently being built near Kings Cross Station London and will house 846 students in cubes 16ft by 9ft. The...

According to the November issue of Quest Bulgaria, the specialist English monthly magazine about Bulgaria and Bulgarian property, tourist numbers are increasing by 22% a year and property prices have increased by as much as 30% in the past three years.   The boom is having a knock-on effect on the buy-to-let market. A three bed-roomed coastal villa now enjoys an average rental price of...

  Two companies specialising in renting holiday homes have reported a flurry of early activity in enquiries for holiday rentals next year.    Autumn is the season when next year’s prices are finalized and experience shows that it is sometimes the best time of year to book a holiday home in Italy, Spain, or the rest of Europe.   Rentvillas.com has been in the business of...

  UK House prices and social changes are seeing that 20 to 30 years old are mortgage free with many finding it easier to rent. Michael Ball, Professor of Urban and Property Economics at the University of Reading Business School, forecast an average growth in numbers of Buy to Let tenancies of 20-30,000 a year over the next ten years.     In 1994, 55% of all mortgages were for first-time...

Overseas property investors could be disadvantaging themselves by automatically choosing to target holidaymakers if they want to make their home available for rent.According to Assetz, the majority of people who buy overseas property immediately look for homes in the vicinity of airports, beaches, golf courses or other tourist attractions.These people could be better off searching within more sustainable...