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I appreciate your thoughts and your comments on the euro resonate with me. I recently posted on another discussion thread about how surprising it is to me that more people are not talking about the continuing and increasing debt crisis is both Spain and Italy, and how devastating that will be...

I recognize that this post is almost 6 years old, but this is something that I am very curious about today....Since this article was published, how much has changed? Where do British buyers primarily invest overseas? Which foreign markets do the members in this Forum invest in? And for those of...

I respectfully disagree. More accurately, global GDP growth should continue to expand through 2020, even as the UK remains one of the worse performing advanced economies in the world and the slowest growing economy in Europe (sans Italy),and with the Eurozone and Japan as the only to regions to...

I'm very surprised that no one has commented on the looming debt crisis in Italy and Spain as major contributors. If those two situations continue to spiral out of control (and let's face it, no one knows what to do about it),the Euro will be crushed and will take years to recover.

The article fails to mention that the median pay for a UK real estate agent is ~£40,000/year, while the average is much lower than that. Which means that only a minority of agents are actually successful. So, if you are interested in working with an agent to sell your property or to find a...

Tremendous and significant political risks still remain. A run up in pricing between two arbitrary points of time does not indicate a trend, and does not mean that this and similar markets are still not wildly speculative and should only represent a small portion of an investor's portfolio - if...

There continue to be more and more data repositories available to real estate investors that allow the purchase of lists of vacant properties (or lists of properties by countless any metrics). Though, I find that the best leads are free....As mentioned before, speaking to the mail carrier about...

As a US real estate investor, I continue to see an inflow of investment from foreign investors and there is nothing on the horizon to indicate that trend will not continue for the foreseeable future. From that perspective, the one thing that I would add to this article is to make sure that you...

Many of the individuals in this and similar posts have referenced lack of supply as a challenge for UK real estate investors. Have any of you invested in real estate in foreign markets and if so, where are you finding opportunities relative to the UK market and why?

When any article talks about "best", it really depends on what each individual's objective is...is it cash flow? Is it capital appreciation? Is it a combination of both? Is it even something else? Also, let's remember that valuation of any asset is mostly determined by the quality and...

In the above example, the seller of the property would not need to pay back the original 50%. If the developer or buyer defaulted on the remaining 50% of the purchase price, the original seller would keep any amounts/payments already received and can then take back (contingencies can be...

Brand awareness and product/service differentiation (especially) are as important as ever across most competitive industries, as consumers/investors have access to more information to make their buying/investment decisions than ever before.....My guess is that the large hotel operator that you...

I invested in a hotel in the US through a syndication and the expected rate of return is 10%+ per year for the as long as we hold onto the property. I think the key here is to invest in areas that are not located in premium priced markets (such as, loosely speaking, major markets on the east and...

Agree with Brian.....Also, assuming that you sell the property at a value that is 100% or more of it's market value, the property (which would be the collateral in this deal-Brian's comment above about being secured by the appropriate deed of your locale (I'm in the US, as well)) is worth twice...