Property News

 

March, 3rd

  Written byMikail Armchev The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors 2011 European Housing Review has served to highlight the stability in the Italian property market — in a round-about way at least. According to the review, Italian house prices fell between 1.6% and 2%, based on the indices of Nomisma and Scenari Immobiliari respectively. This, said [...]

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March, 2nd

  Written by Marium Raja The recent rise in the price of oil may have a negative effect on Turkey’s balance of payments, and could also increase inflation which could affect the growth of the economy.  This is no different from any other country that needs to import oil, but the problem is that the recent [...]

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  Written by Andrey Bibarsov Croatia’s membership negotiations with the European Union look likely to be completed during the first half of this year, provided Zagreb pushes through the vital reforms.  This would mean it could become a full member next year, joining Slovenia who is the only other country from former Yugoslavia that has so [...]

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March, 1st

  The popularity of Turkey as a holiday destination has just been confirmed with the announcement from the deputy undersecretary with the Turkish Ministry of Tourism and Culture, that Turkey gained $20 billion from the 28 million foreign tourists who visited the country in 2010.  Tourism is incredibly important Turkey, not only for creating new jobs [...]

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  Defence companies in Turkey and Malaysia have just signed a $600 million deal which makes it Turkey’s largest single defence industry export sale.  The defence firm FNSS signed a deal in Ankara with Malaysian firm DEFTECH to supply armoured combat vehicle frames to the Malaysian armed forces.  The deal is for 257 armoured carrier frames [...]

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  Written by Lesley Graham You get a lot of these articles at the end of the year looking into the next, and at the start of the year looking into the year ahead, but now, as we drive into the season proper, I thought it would be good to take a look at where sales [...]

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February, 28th

  Written by Marium Raja Italian property prices are holding firm according to real estate agents. This comes as a shock to many against the backdrop of continued economic uncertainty. But even that shock and uncertainty is good news for the Italian property market, because we see, beyond a shadow of a doubt that, even when [...]

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  Written by Shaun Thompson With GDP growth running at the highest level in Europe, and other indicators such as budget deficit, inflation and employment all going in the right direction, the number of people arguing that Turkish property isn’t one of the best investments in Europe is falling by the day. This culminated in the [...]

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  Written by Lesley Graham The Croatian property market is “on the up” according to a report published last week by American investors publication Realty and Investments. The article cited the solidifying European economic recovery, and impending EU membership, as making the country attractive. It also pointed out that things like new flights between the US [...]

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February, 27th

  Calabria is arguably one of the most unsung property investment heroes in the world. Calabria offers the chance to buy property in an established market (namely Italy) but to do so at emerging market prices. Calabria was only just becoming popular in 2008, at which point the financial crisis laid waste to demand from foreign [...]

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