Why invest in a golf property?
When buying a property abroad, there are many factors involved in the buying process; this can be down to location, price and style. But many people enjoy living the golf life and there are many of these so called golf estates popping up.
You get the benefits of living around the golf club with all of [...]
Moon to be bought and sold
As private space tourism is reaching out past the earths atmosphere there are calls for an international agreement as to what can actually be done should a private firm land on the moon and begin to colonise it.
There are several private companies interested in space tourism, but what happens when one gets to the moon, [...]
Surviving property repossession
As bad as it may seem to normal people, house repossessions are on the rise; around seventeen thousand homes were repossessed last year alone. That’s a huge amount of families who have been left without a home.
But this figure is set to rise, despite the government’s advice; if you fall behind on your mortgage payments [...]
The Blair’s buy £4 million home
The property market in the UK is fairly liquid at the moment, there are some places that are holding their own and others are losing pace with the rest of the market. But there are always so great bargains to have, which is why a lot of investors are busy building their portfolios.
One such investor [...]
The top property tycoons
When the property market is going though a stage like we are now, it is always great to hear about those people who made it in the world. In the case in the property world, these people come from many varying backgrounds; some have inherited, while others have worked their way from ground level.
20. ANDREW [...]
Green Development in Australia
It comes as no surprise that Australia where they have plenty of open space and sunshine, that they should be looking at creating new developments which are eco friendly and a project in Sydney is just one example of this growing trend towards redeveloping older sites, instead of taking land that could be used for [...]
April 18, 2008Property Portals put off agents and developers
Potential buyers of an overseas property may be losing out on some good deals when they visit an over seas property portal, this is because there are many foreign estate agents and property developers who do not use the property portals.
The main reason for this is that they find the portals too time consuming or [...]
Property in Ayrshire holds place
No matter what the state of the property market in this country, there is always some place that is not in line with the rest of the property market, and this time it would seem to be Ayrshire in Scotland.
They say that it has something to do with the close proximity to Ireland, which has [...]
UK property auctions
When it comes to property hardly anything is free, especially when it comes down to property auctions, there are many fees to look at for and yet why do people go to the property auctions and buy houses?
This is because the house prices at an auction are well bellow the average price for a similar [...]
Amsterdam to build underwater city
Considering that most of Holland is below sea level anyhow, the decision to build an underwater city may not at first appear to be something to shout about, but this is really an underwater city, something that could only be thought of in a film.
The city of Amsterdam is undergoing some major changes but there [...]
Birds choose wealthy neighbourhoods
It would seem that even birds have a good taste in which property that they choose to nest and feed in, with a recent study by a research team from Sheffield University found that when it comes to urban birds the largest populated areas by the birds is related directly to the area itself, and [...]
February 5, 2008Building better than buying?
It seems that with the rocky state that the property market finds itself in these days, that there may be other ways of being able to make a profit within the property market.
The concept of building a house may at first seem to be a rather daunting scheme, but with all the expert help that [...]
Farmer builds castle, then hides it
Building your own castle may be many landowners dream, and for a farmer who has a lot of land and not many neighbours, it is a tempting prospect and one farmer Robert Fidler could not resist the temptation and began to create a mock Tudor residence.
But there would always be the possibility that someone may [...]
US cut interest rates
When the Federal Reserve cut the base interest rate by a massive three quarters of a point, it was thought that this would help the stock markets recover and head off a US recession which is looking like it may be too late to do anything like that now.
But a recession is only two bad [...]
City of the future will be sky high
As the population of the world increases, space on the planet is going to become rare. This means that eventually there are going to be problems for housing, business and agriculture.
The solutions that some people are thinking of are, cities in the sky, these are huge constructions with large bases that support a self contained [...]
Building a log house
Apparently there could not be a better time to build a log house! For one reason these buildings are eco friendly and the market is so, that getting good contractors in to do the work is a real good time as their work may be falling off slightly and so is a good time for [...]
January 15, 2008Country houses feel the pinch
One of main pointers to the state of the property market is the way that property market in the country is performing, and during the last quarter of 2007 the country house market saw a price fall of 0.04%, which is not a lot but never the less it is a fall.
Key Highlights:
Overall prices for [...]
The greenest buildings in the world
For past few years the green has begun to precede almost all words and property is no different. We hear of some green issues that are connected to the building and property industry, but if you just sit back for a second or two, do you actually know of any green buildings?
Well just in case [...]
Tents torn down in Paris
A makeshift village of tents along side the river Seine by a homelessness action group has been brushed away by police before it could even get established. This was done last year by the same group who used just a few red tents in the centre on the city, but this last protest was going [...]
December 18, 2007Property boom on the Moon
The world property market is struggling at the moment, granted that there are some places that are bucking the trend, there always is but these are few and far between. However there are some places that are literally out of the world!
The price of an acre of land on the Moon is defying gravity this [...]