Brazil Real Estate Popular with the British

  Brazil is quickly becoming a very popular place for international real estate investors to purchase property. The climate, culture, low prices and some of the best beaches in the world are attracting overseas investors looking for a great deal, vacation home, rental property or a place to retire. A recent report indicates that Brazil is now in the top ten markets for British investors buying...

South Florida Real Estate News

  The real estate market in Florida continues to struggle for sellers while buyers have many options available. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper, www.sun-sentinel.com, notes that Broward County, just north of Miami, had both good and not so good news. Prices of existing homes rose a bit in March, which was the first year-over-year increase since last May. The number of homes that sold,...

Sterling The US Dollar & property investors

Overseas property investors have been paying particular attention to the latest development in the currency markets. The smallest fluctuations in the money markets can make a huge difference to the price of a property abroad and requires careful planning with a specialist broker. Moneycorp  offer investors a daily brief to help them keep up to date with the foreign exchange...

Selling property online to rise in the UK

   UK property industry insiders anticipate a surge in online property sales in 2007 owing to the introduction of the Home Information Packs. From June 1 2007, everyone involved in selling a home in the UK will need to know about Home Information Packs (HIPs). The anticipated online sales increases will come from the publics lack of appetite for the new fees associated with the packs. The...

Rental income set to fall in Dubai

  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...

Revolving towers in Dubai like Brazil real estate

Dubai building technology is at the forefront in modern architecture and has become known as a city of firsts however the introduction of rotating towers reflects older designs in Brazil.   Three ambitious new building projects have been announced in Dubai all of which will feature rotation in the design. This new concept features rotation either of the whole towers or of certain floors...

The Rotating Da Vinci Tower in Dubai

The Da Vinci code is more than a book or movie starring Tom Hanks – it’s the next technological breakthrough within real estate. The Da Vinci Tower will be located in Dubai and be over 300 meters with approximately 68 floors.   What’s so special about it? If not a luxurious building and hotel is enough for you, the apartments will rotate according to every resident’s desire....

Walt Disney World Florida Tops Attendance List Again

Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida once again tops the attendance list for amusement parks worldwide. According to a report recently issued by TEA/ERA (http://www.connectingindustry.com/pdfs/TEA-ERAAttendance06.pdf), the Orlando area resort had an estimated 16.64 million visitors in 2006, up 3 percent from the previous year. Disney’s other Orlando area parks, Epcot,...

Grenada Caribbean real estate taking off

  New housing developments, including resorts and luxury villas, are starting to take off in the southern Caribbean island nation of Grenada. Grenada and the smaller island of Carriacou are two of the least developed islands in the Caribbean and they have an optimal situation for new real estate developments and investors. Property and labor costs are relatively low, so the opportunities for...

Overseas property investors & 2 Dollar pound

International real estate investors will be breaking open the champagne  at today’s news of the 2 Dollar Pound. Florida real estate for example has already low prices and many attractive incentives for investors this coupled with a weak Dollar makes investing in Florida real estate irresistible. Sterling touched its highest level against the Dollar for 26 years. Many forecasters believe that the Dollar...