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Bulgaria Bulgaria Residential Property Prices up 7% in Q1 |
Date posted: 23.04.2008 |
Prices for the residential properties in Bulgaria registered an increase of about 7 percent since the beginning of the year, data of the National Statistical Institute show. |
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International Top 10 European countries for real estate property investors |
Date posted: 14.04.2008 |
If you’re looking to diversify, broaden or even begin your property portfolio consider Europe for your next investment destination. |
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Egypt Saudi Arabia will need four to five million housing units by 2020 |
Date posted: 11.04.2008 |
There has been a growing demand for real estate in Saudi Arabia, which has been attributed to repatriation of Saudi funds from abroad, soaring oil prices and increase in oil revenues, and the recently introduced regulatory framework covering investment laws for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nationals, which made freehold investment in the Kingdom highly attractive. |
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International Why the Baltic property crash is good news |
Date posted: 11.04.2008 |
Falling prices in the Baltic real estate markets may be causing concerns for investors and developers, but they could actually present an opportunity to improve quality and the long-term outlook. That was the key message emerging at a seminar titled ‘Regeneration – Sustainable Urban Planning’ hosted by real estate giant Collier’s CRE in Tallinn on April 8. |
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Lithuania Lithuania credit growth to slow sharply - c.bank |
Date posted: 10.04.2008 |
Lithuania's banking sector, dominated by Nordic groups, remains sound despite global financial turmoil, but the rate of credit growth will slow sharply, the central bank said on Thursday. |
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Bulgaria Sofia set for 25% growth in 2008 |
Date posted: 07.04.2008 |
A shortage of supply in Sofia is likely to see prices increase by some 25 per cent during 2008, according to property market analysts Property Secrets. |
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Estonia Estonian economy could gain after slowdown pain |
Date posted: 02.04.2008 |
Estonia's once booming economy is slowing faster than expected, but decisions can still be made by the government to ease the pain, Economy Minister Juhan Parts told Reuters in an interview. |
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International Europe |
Date posted: 01.04.2008 |
When American real estate sneezes, Europe's housing markets catch a cold. Though some European countries are experiencing growth, recent house-price figures indicate that, as in the U.S., things in Europe are slowing down. |
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Egypt Next Move real estate investment expo to be held in Cairo |
Date posted: 31.03.2008 |
The inaugural edition of the Next Move real estate investment exhibition will be held from 16-19 April 2008, at the Cairo International Conference Centre in Cairo, Egypt. The event, touted as the largest real estate exhibition and forum in Egypt, will welcome more than 40 exhibitors and 25,000 visitors to 16,000 square metres of exhibition space to explore various residential and commercial projects worth US$10.0 billion (AED 36.7 billion). |
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Romania The Property market in Romania will rise in the next years |
Date posted: 24.03.2008 |
With price appreciation estimated at 20%-30% per year for the next 5 years, Romania is the HotSpot in European property market. |
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Morocco Property Investment in Morocco |
Date posted: 21.03.2008 |
Morocco has long been the place of choice for many of the rich and famous, particularly from the UK and property investments continue to be a winning choice. The area is exotic and historic and the weather is warm and dry. |
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Latvia Latvia needs no more anti-inflation steps |
Date posted: 17.03.2008 |
RIGA: Latvia's economy is slowing and no further particular measures are needed to dampen inflation, the country's finance minister was quoted on Friday as saying. |
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International Global Property Prices: The Winners And Losers |
Date posted: 17.03.2008 |
Global house price inflation in quarter four of 2007 stood at an annualised 8.2 percent, down from 9.7 percent a year ago. Economic uncertainty has deflated house price inflation in the west, while returns in emerging countries have bounded ahead, figures show. |
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Estonia Advice on Buying Estonia Property |
Date posted: 13.03.2008 |
Buying property in Estonia is a relatively straightforward and safe procedure. The wheels of the bureaucratic machine move fairly efficiently, meaning that you could have title transferred in as little as four weeks. |
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Poland Commercial Space Market: Prospects for 2008 |
Date posted: 05.03.2008 |
Last year several long-awaited commercial outlets opened, providing the market with more than 850,000 square meters of modern retail space. This is an excellent result, and yet, this year seems to be even better-several facilities are scheduled for opening, from big multifunction complexes to small centers located in the middle of smaller cities. If all these projects are completed, supply will have grown by some 1 million sq m by the year's end. Why is the modern retail space pool in Poland constantly growing? |
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Egypt Investing in the Egyptian Property Market |
Date posted: 03.03.2008 |
It has not been that long ago that the Egyptian property market fell on hard times. In 1997, there was a massive housing oversupply due to inexperienced companies jumping into a market that they didn’t understand. Many of the developers went bankrupt. It has take some time, and ten years of market adjustment, but the property industry is on the rise once again. |
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Turkey European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to invewt in Turkey |
Date posted: 28.02.2008 |
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which is getting prepared to withdraw from the countries in central Europe, plans to make investments in Turkey in the upcoming period. |
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Bulgaria Sofia Raises Tax on Buildings by 25% |
Date posted: 28.02.2008 |
Sofia citizens will pay 25% higher taxes on buildings in 2008, the capital's municipality announced Thursday. |
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Serbia Leasing for third stage of Airport City Belgrade underway (RS) |
Date posted: 27.02.2008 |
The leasing for the third stage of Serbia's first business park, Airport City Belgrade, is underway, with Colliers International Serbia a leasing agent. Four buildings, each featuring 9,500 m² of Class A office space, have already been constructed. The third stage of construction, featuring two buildings with 11,000 m² each of office space, will be completed this summer. |
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Bulgaria Where are the hot property investment areas in Bulgaria? |
Date posted: 27.02.2008 |
While some investors may have got their fingers burnt in the ski resorts of Bansko and in Bulgaria's coastal regions, it is quite a different story in the capital city - Sofia. |
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Hungary PwC Alert - Hungarian tax authority implements major changes in its tax audit policy |
Date posted: 27.02.2008 |
In its latest Tax & Legal Alert PricewaterhouseCoopers informed about the policy statement issued by the Chairman of the Tax Authority (APEH) with respect to tax audits. |
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Slovakia Slovakia property market showing excellent growth - but what about the future development of its cap |
Date posted: 25.02.2008 |
No one can fail to be impressed by Slovakia's economic health - staggering growth of 14.1% in the forth quarter of 2007 and over 9% for the year overall. |
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Turkey Turkey seeks investment from GCC states in four key sectors |
Date posted: 24.02.2008 |
DUBAI — Turkey is seeking increasing investment from the Gulf States in four key sectors — energy, infrastructure, tourism and real estate — Turkey's Minister of Economy, Mehmet Simsek, said in Dubai on Thursday. |
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Bulgaria Bulgaria property city prices will go up in 2008 |
Date posted: 23.02.2008 |
Shortage of land in cities in Bulgaria where developers wanted to build led to lavish compensations to land owners in the form of apartments. The shortage is strongest in Sofia, Varna, Burgas and Plovdiv. As a result the prices of residential property in Sofia has increased by 25% last year (source: National Statistical Institute). The trend is expected to continue also this year, driving strongly the prices up in the rest of the country. |
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Bulgaria Bulgaria to see 20% rise in residential property prices in 2008 |
Date posted: 21.02.2008 |
Named the world's strongest price riser in 2007, Bulgaria's property market is expected to keep up its momentum this year, experts said. |
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Turkey Office prices in Istanbul on the rise |
Date posted: 18.02.2008 |
Real estate prices are on the rise in Istanbul. The city has been experiencing the highest levels of economic activity in the last few years. |
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Egypt Visit Arabia 2008, Property & Recrutment |
Date posted: 18.02.2008 |
Dubai government statistics state that 800 people are applying for a UAE resident visa every day so they can live and work in the Emirate. That’s a staggering 292,000 people a year. If 50% of these groups our coming over as laborers, then this still leaves over 146,000 new arrivals who will need somewhere to live as well as work. Arabia 2008, a new property and recruitment exhibition will be taking place at London Earls Court on Friday 29th February to Sunday 2nd March, where visitors can attend to source all the information they require on living and working in the UAE, GCC, Egypt or Morocco. |
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Turkey Turkey’s property market benefits from new flights |
Date posted: 15.02.2008 |
Access to Turkey improves significantly with the introduction of more flights and the development of new airports. Experts say property prices should rise as a result. |
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Egypt Egypt – A successful reform story |
Date posted: 14.02.2008 |
"Reaping the fruits of the economic reform program" could be the title for the next phase of the Egyptian economy. The principal goal of the current cabinet, which was appointed in 2004 and headed by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, is to set in motion more economic reforms, thus transforming the country into a new business hub. This government has succeeded in turning around many critical issues concerning the Egyptian Economy. The results were significant during the period from 2004/05 to 2006/07. One of their main achievements was that they regained trust and credibility from the regional as well as the international investors and investment institutions. |
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International European Commission Seeks Copyright Extension, New Levy Debate |
Date posted: 14.02.2008 |
In a flurry of intellectual property-related activity Thursday, the European Commission proposed extending copyright protection for performers from 50 to 95 years, resurrected debate on the contentious issue of copyright levies on blank media, and ranked member states on their innovativeness. |
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