Girasol Homes is defying the global trend in international real estate sales by announcing a new opportunity for property professionals to promote over 10,000 overseas properties. The portfolio includes properties in Spain, Portugal, USA, Cyprus and Turkey.They seek to get partners from across Europe, Russia and worldwide.The company outline a number of key benefits including: Products that sell - well...
ADIT Brasil, the investors' gateway to real estate and tourism development in Brazil, has created an Investment Agency focused on presenting real estate projects correctly to overcome the obstacles of doing business between Brazil and the rest of the world. Luiz Lessa, CIO of ADIT's Investment Agency says: "Brazilian business owners - especially small and medium-size - have not yet mastered the...
Turkey has swept up the highly prestigious accolade of the Condé Nast Traveller's favourite country in the destination category at the 12th Annual Readers' Travel Awards on Wednesday night. This is the first time that Turkey has won the award and it goes to show how the country has catapulted into the lime light for holidays and even second homes. It is this popularity that has also secured Turkey a...
Luxury home owners are finding it harder to sell a property in the UK and some have been adopting new techniques when selling their homes. At the same time property experts have warned that home values could plummet by at least 10% by the end of next. Mortgage approvals, according to the Bank of England, are running at around half the levels that would underpin a sustained rise in valuations, despite...
1/09/2010 Overseas property investors seeking bargains in the UK will be keeping a close eye on what is happening in the UK housing market. Latest mortgage lending figures from The Bank of England indicate a huge drop in mortgage approvals a sign of worried home owners who are staying put. The Coalition government are taking drastic measures to reduce the British debt and these measures appear to...
Week commencing August 31st 2010The Pound fell broadly last week, although not significantly, as we reach the end of the summer holiday season and concerns about the fragility of the recovery continue. The revision to UK GDP was, thankfully for those of you sending money overseas, slightly better than expected and in the absence of other major data the Pound has been trading in tight ranges across the...
27/08/2010- Despite continued concerns about the state of the UK housing market, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) have revealed this week that mortgage lending in the UK in July was at its highest level for a year. According to the CML research, a total amount of ã13.6 billion was advanced in July, a 5 per cent increase over Juneââ¬â¢s figures. This is the highest...
UK property websites Rightmove, Findaproperty and Zoopla battle it out for UK visitors . Zoopla fires a warning shot at the two giants by taking a larger market share and announcing a new TV advertising campaign Nielsen figures show overall visits to U.K. property sites fell by 5.3 percent in July compared to the previous month, as is to be expected at this time of year. Rightmove visitors fell by 2.2...
As increasing numbers of Brits sell their overseas properties and move back to the UK, it is worth checking the best way to repatriate your funds. Sending the proceeds of an overseas property sale back to the UK can be fraught with expensive problems without proper research. Banks automatically converting funds at poor exchange rates can make a difference of thousands of Pounds, and in some countries...
The friendship between David Beckham and Gordon Ramsay was confirmed when the two were spotted with their friends and family staying a designer modernist style beach house in Los Angeles. The pair are said to now be in business together with a new restaurant in London. The Becks and Ramsays stayed at a stunning beachfront property said to be worth some £3.2 million. The modern white house features...