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  1. Are your rentals really guaranteed?

    If you're buying a home abroad, make sure you take independent legal and financial advice

    If there is one thing that tends to get my back up, it is guaranteed rentals. On the face of it, guaranteed rentals were the ideal solution for investor clients. They bought a property with a minimal deposit and financed the rest with [read more]

    May 20, 2010

    Posted in Investment, Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate.

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  2. Testing Times For The Euro

    Sail into calm financial waters

     By Bill Blevins, Managing Director, Blevins Franks Over the last three years, the currency story for British expatriates has all been about the Pound Sterling and its fall from grace – it lost around a third of its value against the Euro [read more]

    May 15, 2010

    Posted in Overseas Property/Real Estate, Property & Real Estate.

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  3. Developing sustainable luxury properties

    Detail of the reception showing Park Lane view in the West penthouse of Avenfield House, Park Lane, London

    “I started in the construction business in my second-to-last year at school in 1988 when I persuaded a friend of my father to let me decorate his office block in the school holidays. It involved overseeing 14 people from my school to do [read more]

    May 12, 2010

    Posted in Eco Homes, London, UK.

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  4. Home abroad? Why not tune into Expats Radio?

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    Expatsradio.com first saw the light of day at the end of 2005 as a small test website to see if anybody would actually be interested in talking to or listening to what the new station had to say. The answer? A resounding yes! [read more]

    May 7, 2010

    Posted in News.

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  5. Have You Got Britain’s Oldest Boiler? Win £3,000 towards a new one!

    Inside a boiler

    Since the Government’s boiler scrappage scheme launched in January, npower hometeam has overseen the removal of hundreds of ancient boilers across the length and breadth of the country. With record numbers of Brits taking advantage of the scheme, which offers consumers £400 off [read more]

    May 6, 2010

    Posted in Property & Real Estate, UK.

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  6. Cape Verde Properties

    A record volume of €2,639m in Foreign Direct Investment was received in 2008. The majority of the Foreign Direct Investment projects are aimed at capturing the increasing number of tourists, by building more luxury hotels and providing tourist services. The country’s 2009 budget [read more]

    May 5, 2010

    Posted in Beach, Cape Verde Islands, Features, Property & Real Estate.

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