Property News

 

March, 9th

Finland real estate

  According to the real estate property portal Home Overseas, citing national Finnish TV and radio company, housing prices in Finland began to grow again after a slump late last year. According to the statistical center of the country, compared with December 2011, prices in January, outside the capital region  rose by 2% , in the [...]

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January, 24th

germany

  According to the OPP news, the German residential market is booming and investment volumes in the first 6 month of 2011 equalled the total amount spent in the full 12 month of 2011. The top-selling properties are the freehold apartments in all the major cities of Germany. In a year-on-year comparison, purchase prices in Munich [...]

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January, 16th

France

  According to the property portal The propertywire.com based on the amount of inquiries received by the property portal The Move Channel, the most popular region in France for real estate in 2011 as PACA (Provence–Alps–Côte d’Azur) with 15,65% of all French real estate. Other southern regions are also popular with house “hunters”, with Aquitaine receiving [...]

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July, 1st

Old mansion in Dublin

  Property prices have increased for the first time in three years in Dublin, even though values have fallen by 12.2% over the last twelve months. House prices in Dublin increased by 0.4% in May, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office, and hopefully are this is the first sign that the beleaguered Irish [...]

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June, 23rd

Portugal Beach

  All the signs indicate that the Portuguese property market is still slowly deteriorating, as figures from the May RICS/CI Portuguese Housing Market Survey show sales activity and pricing are continuing to weaken.  Further gloom comes in the form of the National Activity and National Confidence Indices which both dropped seven points to -39 and -60 [...]

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June, 9th

Rich architecture in Pisa, Italy

  The Daily Telegraph has just published figures from foreign exchange firm Currencies.co.uk, which shows that British buyers are heading to Europe’s distressed markets to snap up bargain properties, with Spain, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Italy being mentioned as benefiting from the trend. However, in the case of Italy property it is entirely possible that something [...]

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June, 7th

House Prices Europe Graphic

  The Paris property market is now the fastest growing in the world; with prices growing 22% in the year ending March 10th according to Knight Frank, the French capital beat Asia’s leading boom cities by some ways. Hong Kong, which has experience one of the biggest property booms in the history of mankind was the [...]

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May, 27th

Eiffel Tower Paris

  There are an estimated 360,000 people who own properties in France, with Britons accounting for the largest percentage.  It’s estimated that 200,000 Britons will be affected by the proposed new 20% holiday home tax, with an average property worth £350,000 costing an extra £700 a year in tax. Potential property buyers in the country are [...]

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April, 29th

Portugal Beach

  Latest figures released by the Institute of Chartered Surveyors and Confidential Imobiliario show that property prices are continuing to fall in Portugal and that it is affecting all the key areas in the country, including the Algarve, Lisbon and Porto.  The decline in prices is not due to rising supply as the number of new [...]

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April, 25th

Cyprus Beach

  Scottish Member of the European Parliament Alyn Smith has warned people not to buy property in Cyprus after floods of his constituents complained at being stung by the title deeds fiasco in the country. SNP member Smyth raised the issue in the European Parliament last year, and has also written to Cypriot President Demetris Christofias [...]

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