Italy’s position as one of the world’s leading tourist destinations is stronger than ever as Italian holidaymakers opt to spend free time exploring their home country.
“Italians show a strong passion for their homeland, being the main visitors to the sunny southern regions and creating an increased demand for rental property in these areas,” says Cary [...]

Weighed down by the credit crunch and high inflation, the global house price boom has ended, according to our latest survey of house price indicators.
Only 13 countries in which dwelling price indices are regularly published saw prices rise during the year to end Q1 2008, while 21 countries saw dwelling prices fall in real terms, [...]

It’s become a well-known fact that the traditional ‘fly-to-let’ rental market in Spain is suffering from over saturation.
Coastal resorts are certainly as popular as ever, with Spain remaining one of the top holiday hotspots with British and European tourists, but when a situation of over supply hits the holiday property market it certainly makes it [...]

Goa has always been a popular tourist destination in India with a strong local market demand where more small developments are required. Long gone are the days where holiday makers would simply want to check-in to hotels; now the demand is for local gated communities.
One of the developments being sought after by investors is the [...]

A suspension on stamp duty would create renewed confidence in the housing market, but could play into the hands of those less in need such as investors and second home owners, critics say.
Alistair Darling today hinted he is considering suspending stamp duty in a bid to kick-start the flagging housing market.
In an interview, the chancellor [...]

Real  estate prices in Scotland are letting faster than at any time in recent years with continuing high tenant demand, according to latest research by Scotland’s leading online letting portal Citylets.
The Citylets quarterly report, Trends in Scottish Residential Lettings, released today, shows that more properties are being let, and being let more quickly, than in [...]

More than three-quarters of Irish real-estate agents don’t expect an improvement in housing-market activity over the next 12 months, NCB Stockbrokers reported, citing a survey.
Forty-nine percent of those surveyed expect the property market to remain the same, while 29 percent expect a decline, Dublin-based NCB said in a report today. Twenty-two percent expect an improvement.
“Tighter [...]

The devastating Wenchuan earthquake had only a limited impact on property markets in Western, Central and Northern China. The price and supply of luxury apartments in Western and Central China experienced a slight drop, but office and industrial markets in those regions continued to display rental growth. A surge of businesses entering Chengdu’s industrial parks [...]

The situation on the real estate market in Bulgaria shows that supply has increased by 50% over demand in the last two months which quite logically affects real estate prices.
A major factor, influencing the price of real estate is the world real estate crisis and economic development in the different regions of the country, executive [...]

Boosted by china real estate Shanghai Composite Index rose 2.99 percent on Monday, continuing Friday’s gains.
Boosted by chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission Liu Mingkang’s remarks over the weekend that the country should support a healthy real estate industry, housing shares rose across the board, said Li Hongyan, a Shandong-based Qilu Securities analyst.
China Vanke, [...]