Category: Property News
Dubai Property Value up by 4%
In the latest survey conducted by Knight Frank on Prime Global Cities Index, United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recorded a 4% climb in property value in the first quarter of 2012. They are also the highest compared to other cities included in the survey. Although they are the best performing location in the Middle East, [...]
China Masters The Art Of “Instant ” Buildings
The Broad Group, a private company based in China who are global manufactures of a vary of products have managed to achieve the impossible by mastering the art of “instant” building which enables them to build up to 6-storeys in just 24 hours! Their innovative flat pack techniques has allowed broad sustainable building (BSB) to [...]
Euro Crisis Proves Profitable For London Properties
The ongoing financial and political turmoil in Southern Europe has sparked an increased of interest in London properties mainly from buyers from Greece and Spain. These potential investors who have the finance to spend are looking for a “safe haven” to do so and with London’s property market currently appealing to the world, where better [...]
LTV Loans Help Boost Portugal’s Property Market
Thanks to the current offer made by Portugal’s banking sector,who are offering higher Loan-To-Value (LTV) mortgages, the property market is looking more and more attractive to investors. According to Stephen Anderson, managing director of infinito real, an estate agency in Portugal, interested buyers are most likely to obtain a 100% LTV loan on repossessed homes [...]
Investors Eyeing Malaysia’s Retail Sector
Savills latest report on property investments in the Asia-Pacific region has found that many investors are turning their attention to Malaysia’s retail property sector. The firm also believes that there will be a “Major shopping centre transactions” from April to June, with several deals currently in the pipeline. Apart from the retail sector, Malaysia’s hospitality [...]
Blackstone Group Purchases Devonshire Square
Blackstone Group – the American based alternative asset management and financial services company has bought over the 12-building Devonshire Square office and retail complex from it’s rivals Rockpoint and the Abu Dhabi investment authority (ADIA), thus cementing it’s property presence in London’s real estate scene. The property was worth just under £340million, about 17% below [...]
Capitalising Landlords – The Dark Side Of The Olympics
As the Olympics nears it’s opening, there has been an alarming increase of landlords “giving the boot” to their loyal tenants or increasing rental prices all for the sake of making some extra cash. A recent survey conducted by BBC news has highlighted the shocking trend of landlords evicting tenants without proper notice or on [...]
The “Water Discus Hotel ” – Dubai’s Latest Architectural Challenge
Designers design, creative people create, put these two fields together and you will get the latest blueprint for the next most outlandish, over-the-top inventions for a hotel. Already home to the worlds tallest building in the world – the Burj Khalifa, Dubai has come up with it’s newest challenge – a half-submerged hotel, complete with [...]
Chelsea Eyes Battersea – Plans For New Stadium To Follow
London’s Battersea Power Station has been receiving a lot of interest both locally and abroad. The latest bid for it comes from none other than Chelsea’s club owner – Roman Abromovich, who has plans to turn the former power station into a 60,000-seater stadium, if his bid is successful. According to the Club, the power [...]
For Sale – Entire Village Including A Castle For £1.75 m
An entire village estate is on sale for £1.75 million. The 22-acre site which surrounds Blenkinsopp castle is close to Haltwhistle Northumberland and are seen as rivals of Downton Abbey in regards to it’s country estate qualities. Also included in the purchase of the village are the deeds for the titles as Lord and Master, [...]
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