French Ski property better for British skiers

Demand for French ski property has increased as British skiers turn to buying French Ski property rather than renting. Marr International Ltd the company behind overseas property web site Homesgofast.com report  a 30% increase in enquiries for French Ski property compared to this time last year.         Nicholas Marr CEO ' On speaking to many clients it is clear that many...

Dubai Property news Emaar & Hamptons International

Award winning Emaar Property Services the property management division Emaar Properties has linked with Hamptons International to provide comprehensive property services. The two are working closer together after the recent purchase by Emaar Properties of Hamptons, a subsidiary of Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Ltd.   Emaar, founded in 1997, is the pioneer of master-planned communities in the UAE...

Italian holiday homes early activity

  Two companies specialising in renting holiday homes have reported a flurry of early activity in enquiries for holiday rentals next year.    Autumn is the season when next year’s prices are finalized and experience shows that it is sometimes the best time of year to book a holiday home in Italy, Spain, or the rest of Europe.   Rentvillas.com has been in the business of...

Rightmove house price index and inflation rises

Bank rate rises in the UK are looking more likely as economic indications point toward an economy that is producing higher inflation and a housing market that shows no signs of cooling down.   Rightmove property website reports that August rate rises have done nothing to slow the progress of rising UK property prices. Rightmove's House Price Index data showed that the national average asking...

Florida property tax reforms

South Florida property prices are becoming beyond the reach of key workers in the sunshine state. New residential towers being built in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are now beyond the reach of teachers or public servants and other key workers. Calls are being made by Florida home owners for State legislators to help by lifting the cap on the Sadowski Trust Fund. The fund is intended to spur...

UK Property Landlords thank tenants in their twenties

  UK House prices and social changes are seeing that 20 to 30 years old are mortgage free with many finding it easier to rent. Michael Ball, Professor of Urban and Property Economics at the University of Reading Business School, forecast an average growth in numbers of Buy to Let tenancies of 20-30,000 a year over the next ten years.     In 1994, 55% of all mortgages were for first-time...

London estate agents and London property prices

  Property in London UK is experiencing an unprecedented property boom for it’s luxury property. The United Kingdom's capital is attracting the wealthiest property investors who have big bucks to spend. These individuals are not fazed by huge price tags never seen before in the UK. The consequence of this inward investment in London’s property market is that demand is outstripping supply....

Bulgarian property attracts Israeli developer

Israeli real estate developer Africa-Israel is about to invest in Bulgarian property development in Sofia, said Valeri Leviev from consulting company Elta who will manage the project.   The Bulgarian development will be a gated residential community called Vitosha Gardens complex located in the Krastova Vada area near Manastirski Livadi.  Work on the 18,000 sq m 140-apartment Vitosha Gardens...

Property in Canada increasingly being sold privately by owner

  Selling property privately or For Sale by Owner (FSBO) is becoming increasingly popular in Canada .Removing the real estate agents from the sale is saving Canadian home owners thousands in commission fees.   The  Real Estate Journal reports 18 per cent of sellers use the For Sale By Owner method. One Canadian for sale by owner web site called Propertysold.ca was developed in...

Property in the UK-Stamp duty stamps misery on first time buyers

First time buyers will become even more disillusioned by figures recently released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders. The share of first-timers paying the government stamp duty has jumped from 48 per cent to 56 per cent within a year. Michael Coogan, the CML's director-general reports “Overall, affordability has worsened, especially for first-time buyers,"...