The Australian housing market is showing signs of a recovery as it witnesses significant house price rises in Sydney Melbourne and Perth average house prices in Darwin outstripped all regions now with the highest median house prices. Australian Property Monitors reveal the average city house price figures:   Sydney- $547,193 Melbourne- $465,113 Adelaide- $417,404 Canberra- $488,213 Perth-...

LONDON 08/08/2009- Selling or buying an overseas property may have become a little less expensive according to the Post Office who has just launched a new foreign currency money transfer service. The service is targeting those who are bringing money back to the UK after selling an overseas property and those who transfer money with pensions or mortgage payments   The Post office says its new service is...

David Beckham has been getting a tough time from fans at LA Galaxy and this could well be behind the reason for Victoria looking at a new home in London. Victoria Beckham is rumoured to be in the running for a luxury Chelsea home valued at about £10 million pounds   The luxury property is built on three-stories and has five bedrooms, designer kitchen, home cinema and basement pool and roof terrace and...

Overseas property website Homesgofast.com reports an increase in demand from international buyers seeking property in London, at same time the property acquisition firm 'Prime Purchase' report the problem of a lack of supply of luxury London homes.   It appears that international investors and lifestyle buyers now see London as the place to put their money the international property website...

 Leading low cost flight operators Ryanair have recently announced that they will be creating 39 new services to the Canary Islands this winter. As the company switch their attention away from services at Stanstead to take advantage of the current suspension of taxes and charges at all Spanish airports.    The 15 new Ryanair flights to Lanzarote  will be available from Birmingham, Bristol,...

British bargain hunters are searching for properties in Florida before the market results in an inevitable lack of bargains according to a leading mortgage company at The British Home Group   Lee Weaver of Florida based Mortgage Company The British Homes Group. "Some prices will change here and there, but movement is expected to be minimal. What will start to disappear very quickly is the choice of...

The Sydney housing market breathed a sigh of relief with new data showing that The value of the city’s typical home rose 3.7 per cent after five quarters in a row of flat prices .   THE upper north shore was Sydney’s strongest performing district during the June quarter, with house prices rising 8.9 per cent to a $620,000 median.The increase was more than double the overall Sydney rise of 3.7 per cent...

Exchange rates for sending money abroad are up across the board this week - mostly due to Nationwide's house price survey showing a surprise 1.3% rise in house prices for July.The UK's biggest building society believes that we may even see house prices finish the year higher than they started - which would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.This, as well as a rise in mortgage approvals announced...

Hotels in Bulgaria’s Albena resort along the Black Sea have launched a promotion with prices as low as 10 leva. The prices are good through the end of August, 2009, according to various hotel companies. Price for a room and breakfast in the Dobrudja hotel is being listed as 10 leva, while several other hotels, including the Lora, Kamelia and Dorostar, are charging 15 leva,   The resort town of Albena...

Cyprus will host the 2012 European Shooting Championships for the Shotgun, according the European Shooting Confederation. The decision came from the recent General Assembly of the European Shooting Confederation, held in Osijek, Croatia.   At the meeting, several other sites were also awarded. Bologna, Italy will host the 50m, 25m and Running Target for Juniors and Vierumake, Finland will host the 10m...