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Sir Ian Botham found ‘the perfect retreat’ in the desert
Cricket ace Sir Ian Botham has found what he describes as “the perfect retreat” in Europe’s only desert. The former England Test cricketer bought a four-bedroom country villa alongside the seventeenth fairway of Europe’s only championship desert golf course, The Indiana at Desert [read more]
July 31, 2009Posted in Almeria, Golf, Investment, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate, Spa/Jacuzzi, Spain, Travel.
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A Home is So Much Nicer in Nice
Since the nobility of Europe first visited to experience its winter sun and to take pleasure in its natural charms, Nice has established its position as the destination of choice for the privileged and wealthy. Situated on the south-eastern coast of France and [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Apartment, Beach, Channel Tunnel, Eurostar, France, Golf, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate, Travel.
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Investing in property in Detroit
Detroit, once the centre of America’s automobile industry, is now probably better known by investors as the ‘property investors dream’. Hit heavily by the US economic downturn and property foreclosures, Detroit has a large supply of under market value property. The city is [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Apartment, Finance, Investment, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate, USA.
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Balearic Islands – finding a property
Anyone thinking of buying a home for holidays, for investment or for retirement would do well to look at the Balearic Islands. The history and the name of these Mediterranean gems date back to ancient times when local mercenaries, known as Balears, were [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Apartment, Apartment-hotel, Balearics, Beach, Country Properties, Eurostar, Finance, Golf, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate, Scuba diving, Spain, Travel.
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Do your homework when you buy a home abroad
There are many people living perfectly happy and contented lives who have bought a home abroad. They haven’t fallen under the spell of an evil developer nor have they sold their souls to an unscrupulous estate agent. Quite simply, they’ve taken the same [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Beach, Channel Tunnel, Eurostar, Finance, France, Golf, Italy, Land, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Portugal, Property & Real Estate, Spain, Travel, USA.
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Finding a home in a French town
South-west France is an area of contrasts. Bastide walled towns and villages; history and sunflowers; long, strait roads and the Canal du Midi all attract visitors who immediately start to wonder why they aren’t residents. There’s something that changes those same visitors into [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Apartment, Eurostar, France, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate, Travel.
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Southwold – East Anglian magic
There can be only be a handful of places in the UK that provoke, almost without exception, the reaction, “Oh what a wonderful place, so charming, so… special. And it’s not just the rather more senior generation that responds like that. The town [read more]
July 24, 2009Posted in Country Properties, Golf, House, Land, Property & Real Estate, Starter Homes, Travel, UK.
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New Chesterton Humberts’ House Price Poll of Polls shows second consecutive month increase in house prices
According to the Chesterton Humberts latest House Price Poll of Polls, house prices rose by 0.4% in July, the second consecutive month to show national house prices increasing. The average price of a residential property in England and Wales now stands £164,557, up [read more]
July 22, 2009Posted in Country Properties, House, London, Property & Real Estate, UK.
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Association of International Property Professionals (AIPP)
Before he was appointed to launch the Associaton of International Property Professional (AIPP) Paul Owen spent five years working for a UK company selling property in France. He started as a salesman but was looking for the next step when Owen saw an [read more]
July 8, 2009Posted in Finance, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate.
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