Brazil comprises 8.5m square kilometers, roughly thirty fives times the area of the UK and is the largest country in South America - the fifth largest country in the world. It comprises of a federation of 26 states, each having considerable autonomy.
Brazil borders with Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It also has a...
Dubai is the 2nd largest of the seven Arab emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates - the others are Abu Dhabi, which is the the capital city, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah.
Facing the Persian Gulf, the city of Dubai stretches across the Dubai Creek, a natural inlet which parts the city into the Deira and Bur Dubai districts.
By the turn of the 20th...
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the take up of buy to let investment.
Buy to let investors have been secure in the knowledge that their property asset will produced excellent capital growth along with the additional potential for income from rent.
Investment landlords are not only from the corporate and professional sector with large property portfolios....
Commanding strategically important sea routes between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Republic of South Africa is at the southernmost tip of the African continent.
With a coastline of some 2,954 kilometres, it is bounded to the north by borders within Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. To the north east is Swaziland, a small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa...
Formerly \'Siam\', Thailand took on its present name in 1939 shortly after a change from absolute to constitutional monarchy.
For much of the time since then the military has been involved in government. An unbroken period of civilian rule that began in 1992 was ended with a 2006 military coup, suspension of the constitution and declaration of martial law.
An interim government has been...
In October a buy to let investor was sent to prison for failing to comply with new fire safety regulations. Mehmat Parlak was sentenced to four months imprisonment and his company, Watchacre properties limited, was fined 21,000 pounds following conviction for serious breaches of the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005.
The prosecution followed a fatal fire at a Tottenham rental flat...
In October a buy to let investor was sent to prison for failing to comply with new fire safety regulations. Mehmat Parlak was sentenced to four months imprisonment and his company, Watchacre properties limited, was fined 21,000 pounds following conviction for serious breaches of the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005.
The prosecution followed a fatal fire at a Tottenham rental flat...
Slovakia, formerly part of Czechoslovakia, itself created as a state at the end of World War One, became an independent republic in 1993. As part of Czechoslovakia, and despite the spring uprising of 1968, it had been within the Communist bloc from 1948 to 1989. Since 2004 it has been a member of the EU.
Landlocked, Slovakia has borders with the Czech Republic, Austria to the west, Hungary...
A member of the European Union since 2007, Romania is a country of almost 92,000 square miles - roughly the same as the UK - but with a population of only 22m people.
This one time communist state has borders with Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine. To the east it has a Black Sea coastline of about 120 miles. The Carpathian Mountains are in the north east and...
Portugal, bordered to the north and east by Spain and to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean, is a full member of the EU. The country is mountainous north of the Tagus River, with plains to the south. Offshore its territories include Madeira, and the Azores.
Summers are hot and dry, winters are relatively wet with most rain falling in November and December.
Portugal has a diversified...
