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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tourism to Cambodia has increased more than 14 percent in the year to May from the same period in 2007. The Ministry of Tourism said Cambodia was on track to attract 2.3 million visitors this year, adding that political stability and infrastructure improvements had increased the number of tourist arrivals to the country. Some $1.64 [...]

Montreal is to be the site of the next massive Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Complex. A partnership between Hilton, and Monit Investments, the 32 storey tower is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2011. The entrance of such a major player is a massive testament to the continued strength of the Montreal tourism market, which is [...]

Despite the global credit crunch, 2007 was a record high for global property investment, with cross-border flows rising steeply and more money crossing between the main regions of Europe, Asia and the Americas. And although the credit crunch took its toll in North America and Europe, pushing down global transaction value by 8 percent in [...]

The overseas property specialists, David Stanley Redfern, have a unique opportunity in the German capital, Berlin. The Landhaus Carrée, in Zehlendorf, comes with a 10-year rental guarantee (providing additional income security); a 10-year modernisation guarantee (covering all aspects of modernisation work undertaken to keep property standards up to date); a 10-year maintenance guarantee (protects against [...]