Overseas Property News

UK: Sellers chop asking prices as buyers thin out

New sellers have chopped their asking prices by 1.7% – the largest monthly cut in a July for four years, Rightmove said this morning
Published: 25 Jul 2012

Spanish mortgage enquires jump up a third

Enquiries from international property seekers looking to get a mortgage in Spain rose 33% during May and June, according to a new report...
Published: 25 Jul 2012

Market for luxury property on Ibiza remains strong

Ibiza has long been a popular destination with British property buyers. Combining breathtaking coastal landscapes with a vibrant club culture, the island has been a haven for wealthy property investors for years...
Published: 23 Jul 2012

Spain and Portugal offer lower living costs

New research has found that Spain and Portugal could offer homeowners significantly lower living expenses than other parts of Europe...
Published: 23 Jul 2012

Luxury apartments in Thailand price report

While the values of condominium property in Thailand’s capital Bangkok continue to rise, a new report has found that some types of property are seeing more significant price increases than others...
Published: 20 Jul 2012

Dublin prices see quarterly rise for first time in over five years

Dublin residential prices increased on a quarterly basis for the first time since September 2006, an index from real estate agency Lisney's shows...
Published: 20 Jul 2012

Growth recorded for Turkish property prices

The value of housing in Turkey increased in June, with price growth in the country reaching 10.76 per cent year-on-year...
Published: 18 Jul 2012

Real estate in Dubai rising rents and property prices

The latest report from a leading property consultancy has found that the residential property market in Dubai is recovering after some difficult years...
Published: 18 Jul 2012

Greeks Take their Money Out of the Country While Russians Bring It In

Greeks, afraid of a possible euro exit, have rushed to move their savings outside Greece, mostly by transferring funds to European banks or purchasing property abroad...
Published: 27 Jun 2012

Dubai property market on road to recovery

After several years of falling prices, Dubai’s property market is showing signs of improvement in early 2012. At the start of 2012, property prices showed their first quarterly rise since 2008 with investors increasingly confident about homes in the emirate...
Published: 27 Jun 2012

Bank lending available for property in Portugal

A leading overseas mortgage specialist has seen an increase in enquiries for property in Portugal over recent months, with buyers looking to snap up a bargain in the country...
Published: 27 Jun 2012

Austrian house prices continue to soar!

Vienna hums with prosperity. There’s a vibrant tourist industry, and the city is beautiful. But none of these factors quite explains what is so strange about Vienna, that over the past eight years while the rest of Europe has seen a property boom and bust, Vienna’s residential property market has just gone up, and up, and up...
Published: 22 Jun 2012

Londoners will be priced out of large parts of the capital as figures show the property price gap between boroughs has widened sharply.

House prices in traditional up-market areas such as Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea have soared in the last three years...
Published: 21 Jun 2012

Foreign exchange – why South West London property has particular appeal for international buyers

The Parks selection of properties at all levels of the market attracts a constant stream of interest from families relocating from abroad. What they're looking for is space and a family-friendly environment that is not always found in prime central London locations...
Published: 21 Jun 2012

California: the new choice for foreign buyers looking for luxury overseas homes

For years, cities such as Paris and Shanghai have been the destinations of choice for buyers looking for luxury overseas homes...
Published: 21 Jun 2012

How To Crack The Lucrative Russian Market

Now in its third successful year, The Global edge Russian Summit is firmly established as the event where Russian agents come to meet and do business with international property companies.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russians create Greek Property Boom?

Believe it or not the Greek Property Industry is one of the few areas where business has actually increased over the past six months. Russian buyers have snapped up homes in Greek vacation spots, while the Mediterranean country continues through it's economic crisis.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russian investors have three million to spend on Costa properties...

Tourist Board and developers highlight the interest in the residential investment market, expected to grow ten per cent as Costa del Sol representatives have taken their 'Living Costa del Sol' project to Moscow to attract potential Russian property investors. The visit ended with smiles all round and the Costa representatives were pleasantly surprised by the extent of the demand.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russian Property Portals - History and the Future

Winston Churchill's comment way back in 1939 that "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" remains true today. Whilst many destinations around the world report growing property sales to Russian investors the path to successful sales in Russia remains rocky and full of contradictions.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russian Realtors Comment on Overseas Investments...

Whether seeking a vacation home, a safe place to put their money or a riskier, higher-yield investment, Russian buyers are once more looking to foreign residential real estate. Although the level of deals has not reached pre-crisis levels, demand for foreign residential real estate is increasing, according to several Russian agencies offering properties abroad.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russians on Broadway...

More than 200 real estate brokers and lawyers, many of them among the most ambitious in Manhattan's real estate world, filed into an Off Broadway theater last month for three hours. The subject of the gathering was not art, but money: specifically, how to sell multimillion-dollar properties to clients from Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Russian Marketing Assistance

Millions of dollars are being invested by Russians abroad, so it is not surprising that International Developers and Realtors are keen to grab a slice of this lucrative market.
Published: 20 Jun 2012

Demand for Spanish Holiday Apartments Up 24% in May

The holiday accommodation rental company Homelidays registered an increase in their requests for holiday apartments in Spain of 24% during the month of May, compared to the same month of 2011...
Published: 19 Jun 2012

Luxury property remains popular

While house prices have fallen across the globe in recent years, one sector of the housing market has been more robust. Luxury homes at the ‘prime’ end of the market have been seen as a safe haven by many investors and so demand for luxury overseas homes as remained strong, propping up prices...
Published: 19 Jun 2012

U.K. high-price homes tax slows London growth

London luxury-home price gains have suffered in the wake of the government’s tax hike according to leading consultancy Knight Frank...
Published: 19 Jun 2012

South of France high on the agenda for British buyers

The South of France has long been popular with British holidaymakers and property buyers. A superb climate, the Mediterranean and delicious cuisine has resulted in many Brits buying retirement or holiday homes in France...
Published: 19 Jun 2012

U.S. home prices showing continued increases

U.S. home prices showed their second year-on-year increase in April according to research group CoreLogic...
Published: 18 Jun 2012

Savills predicts supply driven rental growth in Manchester office market

According to the latest Manchester office market report from Savills, the diminishing office supply in the city is beginning to generate signs of a recovery in rents and a reduction in incentives...
Published: 18 Jun 2012

Strength of pound makes property in Brazil cheaper

Property in Brazil is becoming even more affordable to British buyers thanks to the strength of the pound. Sterling is currently trading at a two and a half year high against the Brazilian Real...
Published: 8 Jun 2012

Demand for property in Murcia surges by 78pc

Demand for property in Murcia has surged by 78 per cent this year, TheMoveChannel.com can reveal...
Published: 8 Jun 2012