A report just released by Standard Life, displays how emerging markets have overtaken many established ones, as the safest place to make investments. Among the emerging markets mentioned Brazil is Standard Life’s favourite, having just invested heavily in the country themselves. Brazil was quoted as a safe place to invest because, its production of grain [...]
A little while back money week ran a story on how all the big financial institutions like Meryl Lynch, have been buying German apartments in bulk — tens of thousands at a time. They have been given this opportunity by Germany’s privatised industries selling of their property stocks to reduce costs. And they have taken [...]
Costa Rica has been named as one of the top destinations for health tourism, a growing industry of people travelling abroad to have cosmetic surgery that is too costly back home. Other countries in the top 5 were Malaysia, Panama, India and Brazil. These countries are most popular because of their advanced, high quality health [...]
Canada was recently named as the most affordable English speaking country in which to buy a property. Liam Bailey of David Stanley Redfern gave us his take on the potential of the Canadian property market:“I would call Canada, the only established market in the world, where the property market is only semi-emerged; meaning there is [...]
With the recent economic woes keeping many people awake at night, where can investors find a low-risk overseas investment property? In the midst of the financial storm, Berlin is a safe harbour. David Stanley Redfern , the overseas investment property specialists, are now helping investors take advantage of these favourable conditions in the Berlin housing [...]
The reports are true; Berlin is currently one of the safest countries in the world to make a property investment, but a new report also hints at it being one of the best, writes David Stanley Redfern’s Liam Bailey. According to a major study into the Berlin housing market in the first quarter of 2008, [...]
As everywhere in the world, the credit crunch causes most people in most countries to tighten the grip on their pockets, the Philippines, well to be honest, Manila, money is being thrown about by the million. All of Philippines major newspapers this week covered the report by the Thrift bank, which announced a massive increase [...]
According to David Stanley Redfern research, property prices in Panama City have been growing at an average 25% per year for the last two years. This is based on the fact that prices in the Global Property Guide for early 2006 were $1700 per sqm, the average price of a Panama City property is now [...]
Montenegro joined the European Union’s (EU) Competitiveness and Innovation Programme Monday 05 March2008. Their membership will see the European Commission (EU’s executive arm) actively promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and growth in Montenegro’s small and medium size enterprises (SME’s). The European Commissioner responsible for the EC’s industry and enterprise policies Gunter Verheugen, said Montenegro had affirmed it’s [...]
The Costa Rican government has announced that its economy will not suffer a downturn from the U.S. slump. For the first time in 50 years the Costa Rican government was left with a $174million budget surplus. It is expected that the U.S. slump will do no more than limit Costa Rica’s growth to 3.8%, down [...]