Good news from the Spanish housing market has been in short supply until now, an independent study reveals that Girona was the best performing region for Spanish real estate.  The independent report comes from Madrid based Sociedad de Tasación.   So why Girona? It may be down to the luxury golf and real estate development PGA Catalunya. The resort reported impressive sales and increased demand...

A new survey has found that property market participants have more confidence in the prospects for homes in Australia’s resource-rich regions than in other areas of the country. The survey found that ‘there was increasing divergence in property industry confidence across the states with confidence highest in the Northern Territory. Confidence growing fastest in Northern...

Celebrity gossip does not get better than this after a highly private romance and six months of wedded bliss, James Bond star Daniel Craig and his wife, actor Rachel Weisz, have bought an $11.5 million property in Manhattan. The couple have spent £7.5 million on the penthouse in New York City after an exhaustive search for a marital home, according to reports in the New York Post. Weisz...

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  The Euro has continued to perform poorly this week, although not without minor signs that the currency is stabilising. The European Central Bank (ECB) yesterday voted not to change interest rates, leaving them at 1.0%, although ECB President Mario Draghi admitted that the Eurozone was experiencing “High uncertainty and downside risks”, fuelling further speculation that...

The Eurozone has taken yet another beating this week, due to concerns over the state of Europe’s banks. Many of the problems seem to be situated in Italy, with shares in the UniCredit bank falling 14.5 pecent on Wednesday, followed by a 17.3 percent fall on Thursday, a 19 year low. In other European banking news, we’ve also seen falls in shares in...

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Brazil notched up from 7th to 6th place  in global ranking of DGP passing UK despite weak growth of just 3% in 2011. 2012 is also forecast to be weak with growth only around 2.5%. Economists of CEBR who compiled the survey project Brazil´s continued rise in rankings compared to European countries over the years until 2020.     Strong performance by other BRICS countries will see the four BRIC...