Overseas Property

Can I offset losses from a bad Spanish property deal?
Some time ago I went to Spain to buy a flat off plan with a view to selling it on for a profit once the build completed or perhaps to let it out.
I used a couple of different agents to source a flat...

Paris Overtakes London for Rents...
London has dropped to second in the rankings for most expensive capital to rent in as rents in Paris takes on the mantle.
Rents in the French capital are now three times more than Shanghai and Mumbai.

The world’s best and worst housing markets...
The secret’s finally out about the best performing international house markets for property investors over the past decade – and the results are not what most property people would think.
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Hush-hush Chancellor Quietly Puts up CGT and IHT...
Property investors will pay more inheritance tax and capital gains tax after the government changed the basis for calculating index-linked increases in reliefs.
The back-door move will increase the...

“The story of a Value Investor” part 1 – The...
How and Where to Find Property Bargains
Welcome to the next four part episode of the “Property Maverick”. I will again try to make this episode fact filled, funny and light hearted. But the real...

Holiday lets are the investment opportunity of the decade...
I’m an unashamed fan of U.K. coastal holiday lets. My husband Nick and I first started investing in them in 2008 as we saw the economic climate deteriorating and reckoned that people would start...

Florida Property Report...
A three page PDF containing four examples of high yielding (circa 20% per annum) Orlando based long term residential rental properties from as little as £25,000.

Florida Property Market Update – part three.
By Mark Alexander.
On Thursday this week I am meeting the Vice President of Lake Buena Vista Resort to learn more about their EB5 visa scheme. This is a $500,000 investment into property which comes...

Florida Property PART TWO – examples of sales now being...
Click on the link below to view examples of sales now being completed in the Orlando area for the long term rental market.
These are not holiday homes but could be! Values have crashed to 50% below...

Florida Property PART ONE – Mark Alexander, will spend the...
Perhaps one of the Worlds most spectacular property market crashes of recent years has been in the areas surrounding Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida. However, has the hype that drove properties to...