Unlike most European countries Italy so far has few property developers aiming at attracting foreign nationals. So investors will generally be obliged to look for properties on the open market.
Your first decision will be to narrow down the area in which you wish to purchase, checking on its letting potential and that there is an airport nearby with convenient take off and landing times to...
From Oct 2008 buy to let investors offering property for rent will be required by law to provide prospective tenants with an Energy Performance Certificate for their property.
The certificates (EPCs) are going to have to be provided freely, either when (or before) any written information about the property is provided to prospective tenants or a viewing is carried out. They won't have to be...
Direct mail has long been considered an effective marketing tool. Now, in this digital age, candid telecommunicate marketing has taken over. It has many advantages including cost, flexibility and immediacy.
Unlike traditional mail shots, telecommunicate marketing campaigns are not constrained by weight limits or postal restrictions. Email marketing is instant and allows multiple links to be...
A t-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt, normally buttonless, collarless, and pocketless, with a disklike neck and mostly (but not necessarily) tangency sleeves, that is put on over the cognition and covers most of a persons body. The sleeves of the tshirt pay at minimal slightly over the margin but not completely over the ginglymus (in short-sleeve variation).
A shirt that is either thirster or...
With Many home owners deciding to rent their homes out instead of selling The Money Centre has provided a list of top tips to help landlords stay within the law.
The top tips to renting out your property are:
Speak to your lender - your mortgage lender needs to know you are renting out your home. Some lenders will allow this but the majority won't. Speak to a buy-to-let mortgage broker...
Joe Upchurch, director of Aston Lloyd said, The obvious attraction of buying in an emerging market is that prices are generally low and if you are buying purely for investment in the areas we have identified, things are bound to change.
"We have highlighted the negatives as well as the positives. Each area is not without risk but with due diligence, you should be able to avoid the pitfalls....
Now that real estate prices on average have adjusted and fallen across most of the Spanish market, it makes it a very positive time to explore these alternative opportunities.
According to a Spanish investment property specialist the main investment approach that has seen larger investors profit substantially on an ongoing basis is buying properties for rent within the larger commercial and...
The average number of transactions per surveyor fell further in July as a lack of mortgage finance continued to weigh heavily on the market.
However, sales expectations have improved, driven by sellers beginning to offer more realistic asking prices says RICS' UK housing market survey published 12 August 2008.
83.9 percent more Chartered Surveyors reported a fall than a rise in house...
In the last few years there has been a massive increase in buying and letting property abroad, a trend driven by rising British property prices, the opening up of new destinations by budget airlines and cheaper air fares.
Letting abroad can work well and is a great way for landlords with properties in the UK to spread their risk. However, there are many things to be aware of.
Obviously,...
You may well have noticed the jobs section of your local newspaper paper shrinking? Don't be fooled into thinking the jobs are not out there! Have you looked on the web? Maybe you have visited a national jobsite and been frustrated at the tens of thousands of jobs you had to wade through to find something near you.
Well, it seems a growing trend in the online job searching arena is the...
