http://www.free-articles-zone.com Morenos en 29/11/2009 In these days of the credit crunch a number of markets have been singled out as not being badly affected by the crisis. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150905 2008-06-07 Inflation is something that attacks affordability. At the moment, consumers are finding in particular that food and fuel is less affordable. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150906 2008-06-07 Anybody who has spent time in a major British city outside London, particularly those of northern England, will have seen plenty of new buildings appearing in recent years. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150689 2008-06-06 When Nationwide released its house price figures this week revealing a dip of 2.5 per cent in May, there were plenty of groans but also some caveats. One of these was that the picture is the subject of much regional variation. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150690 2008-06-06 With Spain being in the property news for many of the wrong reasons recently, some investors may decide that if they are not going there, they might as well avoid the Iberian Peninsula altogether. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150364 2008-06-05 There are many markets buy-to-let investors can target, but in seaside towns tourism is undoubtedly to the fore. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150365 2008-06-05 Today, it seemed, was a bad news day, at least for those who see falling house prices as a bad thing rather than a chance to pick up some bargain property investment. Nationwide's latest house price index showed that the average home in the UK now costs £173,383, a drop of 2.5 per cent in a month and 4.4 per cent in a year. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150021 2008-06-04 Since the credit crunch struck investors in property have sought to respond in a variety of ways, each according to their circumstances and wider ambitions. While some have held on to their assets at home or abroad - perhaps even adding to them - in anticipation of longer term gains as the market moves into its next positive phase of the cycle, others have sought out new markets which are growing fast, as international conditions are overwhelmed by favorable local factors. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=150022 2008-06-04 Spain is a perennial favourite for British tourists and property investors alike. It may be due to the relaxed lifestyle, the sun-soaked beaches or the traditionally easy path to earning a bit of cash through holiday lets - whatever the reason, Spain consistently appears on the list of top investment hotspots for buyers from the UK. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=149198 2008-06-02 With the recent trials and tribulations of the market being well documented, Spanish property has seen its fortunes take a bit of dip. Only this week Reuters reported that an unemployed real estate agent near Madrid is unable to make the mortgage payments on his flat and so is selling raffle tickets in order to dispose of it. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=149199 2008-06-02 Beaches, history and beautiful landscape: these are all themes that come to mind at the mention of Cyprus, which has been a member of the European Union since 2004 and a leading tourist destination for far longer. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=148227 2008-05-28 The allure of Nice has never been difficult to understand, with its romantic seaside views, cinematic associations and celebrity glamor. Now, with its new tram system in place, all of the city's neighbourhoods are more accessible than ever to both tourists and investors, creating even more reasons to choose to buy on the French Riviera. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=148229 2008-05-28 The current fall in house prices that are taking place across the UK may not be good news for the majority of current homeowners, but there is one group that is surely giving thanks for their good fortune: landlords. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=147810 2008-05-27 Those who are looking to buy property in the sun are discovering that there is more to Portugal than the Algarve, including a subtropical island that boasts temperatures ranging from 16 to 22 degrees C. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=147811 2008-05-27 The solidity of the French property market while all around is beingcredit crunched has been one of the major stories of recent times. Now,it seems, a new feature of this has emerged - the BARBies. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=147006 2008-05-24 That Britain is in the process of a property downturn is not in doubt, even in the eyes of the most blinkered. But while the impact of the credit crunch is well known and recent house price figures are clear enough evidence of what is going on, the question remains just how far this will all go. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=147007 2008-05-24 If location is one key to buying property, many an expert in the industry is just as quick to use the word research, at least when it comes to overseas purchases. Those buying investment property overseas will find plenty willing to emphasise this message. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=146392 2008-05-22 While it may not be wise to pre-empt the minutes of the Bank of England monetary policy committee's meeting on interest rates this month, it appears not to have been such a good few weeks for those keen to see the property market picking up again. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=146396 2008-05-22 In recent years Cyprus has been seen as a country that has enjoyed a property boom for some very good reasons. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=146060 2008-05-21 Right now it seems India is not so much a land of opportunity, but a whole subcontinent. The second most populous nation on Earth has been enjoying a huge economic boom while increasingly asserting itself in the cultural, political and sporting arenas. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=146061 2008-05-21 The short-term prospects for the property industry may not appear too hot just now. Agent confidence is low, as shown by the Hot Property agents’ index, which shows the number of estate agents more confident about the market now than they were in March at just 42 per cent. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=145778 2008-05-20 For every analyst who says the Spanish property market is dead, another states that it is only slumbering. Some have suggested that the market is a busted flush for investors, with falling prices and overdevelopment meaning the good times are over after the recent boom years. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=145421 2008-05-19 When the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) delivered its verdict on interest rates for this month at noon today few would have been surprised. It decided to keep the base rate at five per cent, following its vote to cut the rate last month. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=145423 2008-05-19 The bad press that the buy-to-let industry has had in some quarters in recent years seems never to abate; it simply shifts target. Previously, the industry was blamed for rising prices on the basis of the nation that homes being snapped up by investors could have gone to first-time buyers instead. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=145050 2008-05-17 France has been an interesting case when it comes to the assessment of the property fortunes of different countries. While some markets have struggled and others remain strong due to their status as emerging markets with cheap bargains, France seems to be somewhere in the middle. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=145051 2008-05-17 For a while home information packs have appeared to drop off the radar, following the final implementation of them as a home-seller's requirement in December for small homes. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144872 2008-05-16 Those investing in the property market will wonder what, if anything, the government can do to help people get on the property ladder. A reduction in house prices is clearly not helping, partly because the cause of it is the same factor - the credit crunch - which has made getting a mortgage harder and more expensive in the first place. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144880 2008-05-16 Cape Verde has become a land of exciting opportunity in recent years, where the economy, tourist industry and property market - not to mention its infrastructure and list of airports - have all grown. Each of these are dependent on the other, which has meant that Cape Verde news of almost any kind has been worth reading about for those investing in property. A new airport means new air routes, new air routes means more tourists and more tourists mean more customers for buy-to-let property. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144885 2008-05-16 Where to live is an issue everybody thinks of when looking to acquire a home. Those buying somewhere to live will usually spend time researching the area they are moving into and making a judgement on a variety of criteria, be that the proximity of local transport links, the quality of schools, the demographics of the neighbourhood, aesthetic considerations or the proximity of family, to name just some issues. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144576 2008-05-15 The country across the channel seems to have been enjoying a rather healthy time of it in the property industry of late. Still second only to Spain in the popularity stakes for UK buyers, the country has seen a strong performance in the past year, with the French National Association of Estate Agents (FNAIM) recording a 3.1 per cent overall level of growth, topped by the performance of the port of Le Havre at 13.1 per cent. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144583 2008-05-15 Its official: the housing market is in crisis. At least, this is the not-so private view of housing minister Caroline Flint. If she had hoped to keep her briefing to the cabinet on the subject under wraps today, she might have done better than hold her notes just where the long lenses of numerous state-of-the art cameras outside 10 Downing Street were poised as she entered. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144193 2008-05-14 With so many destinations for those buying investment property overseas being hit by the credit crunch, emerging markets are attracting plenty of attention. Cape Verde is among these, although it would be quite incorrect to suggest that it is becoming popular because of the credit crunch. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=144198 2008-05-14 The overseas property market has plenty of diversity, which may be both a weakness and a strength. For those failing to carry out the right research, the enticement of an investment without a full understanding of the type of person who might occupy it, for example as a holiday let, could end up in failure. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=142445 2008-05-09 Location, location, location may have been a well-worn phrase even before it became the name of a TV programme, but many will wonder whether this is indeed the be-all and end all for those investing in property, either as a place to live or as a place to rent out. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=142446 2008-05-09 There is supposed to be a credit crunch going on, but some parts of the world, it seems, are not getting the message. While Spain has outlined a major rescue plan in a bid to boost its property industry, the Lusophone countries seem to be attracting the big buyers. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=142115 2008-05-08 These are interesting times in London for the property industry to say the least. While both the commercial property investment industry and the residential sector (both buy-to-live and buy-to-let) have been grappling with the credit crunch in recent months, the longer-term issues in London remain of concern to many. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=142120 2008-05-08 What is the future of international property investment? In an age when many countries have only recently opened up politically and economically, the possibilities seem far more extensive than they were a generation ago. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=141390 2008-05-06 Up until today it had not seemed to be a good week for news emanating from the Bank of England. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=141404 2008-05-06 This week brought what appeared to be some positive news amid the gloom of falling house prices, as the Bank of England told the world it believed the worst of the credit crunch had passed and that a return of confidence in the coming months was justified. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=141001 2008-05-05 Cyprus has been one of the apparent success stories in overseas property investment terms in recent years, with rising prices, the economic kudos of first joining the European Union and then adopting the euro as its national currency, followed by the tantalising possibilities for the future that reunification with the Turkish north could bring. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=141008 2008-05-05 Reading the latest stories of the alleged impending property apocalypse, it may seem to some that it is rather easy to ignore certain things that are going on in the market. What so many people involved in the buy-to-let industry really think and are planning to do appears to be sneaking under the radar of some. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=140425 2008-05-02 Portugal has been the subject of plenty of attention in recent months, not least as an alternative Iberian destination to Spain. Providing high quality accommodation rather than pile-them-high blocks of flats on the Costas is one way the country can be truly alternative, while the lack of a dominant market position may have left the country much less vulnerable to a property slump. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=140436 2008-05-02 The news today appears to have been rather bad if one only considers good news to be increases in house prices. For those looking to sell or borrow against the value of their house it certainly is, but less so for those looking to buy. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=140158 2008-05-01 Much excitement was generated by the recent change in capital gains tax (CGT), which saw two major benefits for buy-to-let investors who might wish to sell any of their assets at any given time. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=138809 2008-04-26 A key issue in the UK property market in recent months, both for residential buyers and those looking to acquire investment property, has been the cost of mortgages, with the credit crunch pushing up interbank lending rates, which in turn have restricted the capacity of banks to lend and led to higher rates and deposits for borrowers. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=138636 2008-04-25 With so many property markets struggling with the credit crunch, various governments are battling away to try to restore some lost ground. In Britain this has come in the form of the Bank of England's £50 billion bond issue to try to create more liquidity in the mortgages market and bring down interbank lending rates. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=138638 2008-04-25 The last few months have been tough for those seeking to get a mortgage, be it a residential loan for that all important first home or a buy-to-let mortgage. In both cases the supply of products has fallen, while the reverse has been true about the size of deposits. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=137965 2008-04-23 Many people who look to rent property are by nature slightly nomadic; individuals whose work may involve short contracts before they move on to where the next job is. Others, such as students, may also not put roots down due to the ephemeral nature of their stay in a town or city. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=137629 2008-04-22 It is now more than three months since the controversial home information packs (Hips) became mandatory for all homes being sold in Britain. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=133054 2008-04-05 With the global credit crunch having affected so many different economies around the world, not least their property markets, more and more experts seem to be singling out France as a shining beacon of hope. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=133057 2008-04-05 As pre-emptive strikes go, few might indicate more strongly an expectation that interest rates will be cut next month than news today that both Nationwide and Halifax are raising the interest rates on their tracker mortgages. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=132860 2008-04-04 If anything is certain about Birmingham, it is that the city has historically suffered from something of an image problem. The city of a thousand trades has paid a heavy price for its industrial rather than cultural heritage (even as the home of Tolkein) and the negative reaction to everything from the local accent to Crossroads. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=132546 2008-04-03 The mortgage market has been much talked about in recent years, first through the increasing need for many buyers to find innovative new products and methods to get on the ladder as prices have risen, then more recently as the availability of products has contracted following the credit crunch. http://www.free-articles-zone.com/article.php?id=132259 2008-04-02