The Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean and the realty here is indeed highly valuable. Government allows foreign citizens to own property in the islands with freehold title for personal use without any restrictions. There is also a good system of recording all land transactions, including creation of charges, under [...]

Finland property prices grew by 97% between 1995 and 2005, which is an average taken from the capital appreciation throughout the Finland property market — with some areas growing more than others. Though analysts have commented that Finland property price rises have slowed since 2005 they have only slowed to around the 8% mark, which [...]

The Aurora Sky hotel apartment complex in the winter — and summer — wonderland of Levi has just become an even hotter investment property. Expected rental yields on the development have always been 8-12%, but the new ski-lift that has been approved for building right opposite the main entrance will increase rental yields by making [...]

It wasn’t so long ago that when the US caught a cold, Canada caught pneumonia. But Canada’s financial prudence has helped it sidestep the sharp home price declines being experienced in countries including the US, Britain and Spain. In the past decade, prices of existing homes in Canada have risen by about 55 per cent, [...]

Albania’s government has told the International Herald Tribune that it has taken out a 66.2 million euro loan from the Japanese government to modernise and overhaul its canal system and build a sewage treatment plant. The deal, which gives Albania a forty year period to repay the loan, was signed June 30 2008. This is [...]

While house prices in many industrialised countries have shot-up at staggering rates Germany’s housing market has remained stagnant; an average detached house in Germany costs virtually the same as it did 10 years ago. Now investors, lured by remarkably low prices, are snapping up German real estate, especially in Berlin. To understand why Germany’s market [...]

Under-supply of resort property on Thai islands like Koh Samui and Phuket is generating substantial growth in their respective resale markets. The under-supply has been caused because of developer’s reluctance to go ahead with new projects in case government restrictions on foreign ownership hinder sales. It is hoped that the government will soon raise the [...]

From January-May 2008 foreign arrivals to Costa Rica increased 16 percent from the same period in 2007, according to the Ministry of Tourism in San José. The upswing represented an additional 133,000 foreign visitors over the period, taking the total to 987,000 arrivals. The US remains the main country of origin, accounting for 54 percent [...]

A new trend is currently sweeping Asia’s property investment scene: branded condo-hotels, where investors are paying more than the market value for the safety and marketing power of global corporation branding. David Stanley Redfern have not been left behind, having just added two such developments in the Philippines to their books, but with one key [...]

This is the final part of the revelation of David Stanley Redfern research into global property markets. This will follow on from part III which revealed the top 2 long-term destinations, by revealing places 3rd-5th. You can read earlier parts of the series at the property investment research articles section of the DSR site. 3 [...]