2012

Britain now lagging behind Europe in home ownership

Despite striving for bricks and mortar from a young age, and a culture which promotes home ownership as preferable to renting, research conducted by Nationwide has revealed that the percentage of Britons who own property has declined and now lags significantly behind other European countries.

15 March 2012

Overseas home buyers losing up to 9,000 GBP due to poor exchange rates

Overseas property hunters looking to buy in Europe can lose in excess of £9,000 as a result of poor exchange rates offered by High Street banks, independent analysis for Currencies.co.uk shows.

15 March 2012

Private vendor? Exhibit your home at Europe’s largest overseas property show

With only two weeks left until our Earls Court London exhibition(30th March- 1st April 2012), we still have availability for private vendors who want to sell their property to advertise in our newly created show area- the private vendor's wall.

15 March 2012

Spanish property sales up in January

Sales of property in Spain rose in January compared with December 2011, although the volume of transactions is still down year-on-year.

14 March 2012

Foreigners flocking to Paris

Foreign buyers are flocking to Paris, where, according to local experts, property is selling for record prices and beating previous sales numbers month on month.

14 March 2012

Kuala Lumpur named a property hotspot

Kuala Lumpur has been named alongside London and New York as a property investment hotspot by the latest IP Global property barometer.

13 March 2012

Only 1 in 7 Brits believe they’ll have a comfortable retirement in the UK

A survey from the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has revealed that only 1 in 7 people believe that they will have enough money to live comfortably in the UK once they stop working.

13 March 2012

14 year old girl buys foreclosed home for 12,000 USD

The fact that Florida, with its absurd number of cheap, bank-owned properties, is truly a land of opportunity is not lost on anyone, not even teenagers- as proved by one 14 year old girl who has seized a chance to become a homeowner, investing in a $12,000 foreclosure near Florida's Fort Myers.

13 March 2012

Standard and Poors predict end of European economic crisis in 2013

The credit rating agency Standard and Poors have predicted that the economic crisis affecting Europe will not last beyond 2013.

13 March 2012