Simple changes in life expectancy are playing a major part here: – in 1950 the average man spent 18% of his life in retirement, today it is 33% and many of those years will be spent in ‘active retirement’ - unrecognizable to our parents and certainly grandparents. In fact, the very meaning of the word ‘retirement’ is changing in the...

The four luxury X Factor houses that housed UK X factor contestants were subject to facebook poll conducted by overseas property portal Homesgofast,com and produced US winners in first and second place. The poll asked which “Which is The Best X Factor Judges Home” revealed that UK facebook fans loved the US based judge’s homes the best. The...

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One of Britain’s leading newspapers has named France as the best place in the world to buy property.  The Daily Telegraph has recently reported the results of the biggest ever survey of foreign holiday homeowners and found, perhaps surprisingly, that ‘the number of Brits buying abroad as actually increased during the downturn.’ Number of Brits owning properties...

Brasilia - The month of September saw a rise of 1,9% in Brazil´s seven largest cities and a cumulative 12 month gain of 29% on average for those cities and across all types of apartments. Those cities are all state capitals of 7 of Brazil´s 26 states. The average price per square meter reached R$ 5,936, with Brasilia, the nation´s capital topping the list at R$ 7,859. In English, and...

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Property in Australia has been remarkably resilient to the recent global financial crisis.  Indeed, in early 2011, US consultants Demographia labelled Australia as the most expensive property market in the world, with homes costing 6.1 times the average annual income. Many experts have therefore predicted that it can only be a matter of time before the Australian property market crashes. ...

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According to the latest figures, there are a now a record number of million pound properties for sale. UK homes valued at more than £1m now make up 3.5 per cent of property transactions, which some in the industry argue may threaten the introduction of the Lib Dem’s mansion tax. One in 29 homes top the million pound mark, revealed Property Wire this week. Buckinghamshire is now one of...

Property for sale in Trinidad and Tobago will benefit from China's offer to loan $1 billion to Caribbean countries. The vast sum of money has been offered by China as the country seeks to strengthen its relationship with the Caribbean and support the struggling economic climate. Countries including Trinidad and Tobago have seen little growth in the economy recently, because the USA and Europe are...