A leading independent global property consultancy has added a new optimism for overseas property investors with the release of its global house price figures. Knight Frank reports that the recovery in global house prices continues with values increasing in 68% of the countries. The increases are still lower than 12 months ago in 57% of the international locations. One surprise winner comes in the form of...

Australian property investors are now even closer to Qatar with the recent announcement that Qatar Airways has launched new flights between Doha and Melbourne.   Qatar's multibillion-dollar programme of expanding the country's transport infrastructure is gathering pace with a firm opening date set for the Doha's new airport, tenders called for the first stage of a rail link and plans to revamp the public...

The prime minister of Barbados, David Thompson, has stepped in to help save a luxury real estate project that has faltered owing to the global slowdown. Several high profile investors have paid deposits on villas in the development which cost up to $30m (£18m) each. X factors Simon Cowell and Andrew Lloyd Webber are said to be on the impressive list of investors who have put their trust in the British...

4/12/09- Qatar is being hailed as one of the surprise investment hotspots for 2010 by the CEO of an international real estate company Marr International. The prediction comes as Qatar confirmed that is was 100 percent committed to its role in developing Europe's tallest mixed-use skyscraper The Shard in London   Qatar is one of the world’s fastest growing economies the GDP is 72.1 billion while the GDP...

3/12/09 Overseas property investors will read with interest the results of a survey conducted by the International real estate website Homesgofast.com. The survey results include some surprising omissions and put Brazil, France and the USA as the top places to invest in 2010   The prediction comes after 1100 overseas property investors were asked to compile there top ten places to buy abroad in 2010. The...

Brazil’s property market is set to become one of the hottest markets in 2010. The country is one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Foreign Direct Investment has increased and with Brazil set to host the 2014 football World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, we will see improvements in infrastructure and huge growth in the construction industry.   Property investors from around the world are flocking...

2/12/2009- Data through September 2009, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index improved in the third quarter of 2009, posting its second consecutive quarterly increase and further improvement in its annual rate of return.   “We have seen broad improvement in home...

2/12/09 - Natal Brazil is set for huge infrastructure improvements in preparation for the 2014 world cup and 2016 Olympics. Improvements will be see new roads hotels and increased public transport   In September the Secretary of Infrastructure of the State of Rio Grande do Norte and the Secretary of Urban Mobility of Natal had requested funds from the federal government for the construction of new and...

The dates for the leading annual real estate and tourism investment event for Brazil have been set. Nordeste Invest 2010 will take place from the 10th to 12th of May, in the city of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte. A three-day B2B event will unite the most important names in the real estate and tourism sectors in Brazil and the world. In its fifth edition, hotel chains, investment funds, developers,...

27/11/09 - UK based Turkish property agent Spot Blue have announced a significant year on year growth in traffic to their website in the third quarter and in what we have seen of the final quarter. The announcement comes just days after an Anna Aero report detailing 22% growth in Turkish airline capacity, and that the contraction in European air travel as a whole slowed to just 2% in the early winter...