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Mortgage loans that offered low initial repayments to encourage first time buyers to buy property in India have been withdrawn by the country’s largest commercial bank amid fears that the loans will result in a repeat of the US ‘sub-prime’ crisis. The State Bank of India (SBI) has been forced to withdraw these so-called ‘teaser’ […]

More first time buyers are climbing onto the housing ladder in New Zealand thanks to increased affordability and more intense competition between banks.  That’s the conclusion of the Roost Home Loan Affordability Report which has shown that the property market in New Zealand is picking up – in some areas. ‘Two speed housing market’ across

Costa Rica is now even more tempting for overseas buyers as it has recently changed the currency law to allow property transaction contracts to be written in US Dollars when the sale was negotiated in Dollars. Up until recently, transactions made in dollars had to have contracts written using the Costa Rican currency of colones

More and more Brits are taking advantage of falling property prices in Portugal and Spain to snap up bargain holiday homes.  Online searches and inquiries about property in the Iberian countries rose in March with a survey from Rightmove Overseas and foreign exchange company Moneycorp finding that the Spanish province of Valencia saw the biggest

Owning a farmhouse in the beautiful rolling landscape of Tuscany is a dream for many Brits.  Whilst large farmhouses may be out of the reach of many British buyers, it is still possible to pick up affordable property in Tuscany.  And, with property prices in Italy not suffering in the same way as in other

Property prices in France should increase across France in 2011 with the largest gains expected in the country’s large cities.  That’s the prediction from the FNAIM, the organisation that represents French estate agents, as strong demand in the country continues to fuel property price rises. Average property value set to rise by 3-6 per cent

Thailand is the number one destination for emigrating Westerners looking for a better quality of life abroad.  That’s the result of a new survey by global bank HSBC which saw Thailand beat previously popular destinations such as Canada, Spain and Australia. The news comes as Thailand also scooped a major gong at an international travel

New figures show that there was an increase in the number of property sales in Spain in 2010 with buyers spending more on homes than they did in the previous year.  Whilst the report suggested a positive attitude towards the Spanish property market heading into 2011, other data has shown that property prices in Spain

Overseas Property investors may be surprised to learn that one nation that has managed to weather the global financial crisis rather well comes in the form of a  Western Balkan nation that is Albania   The proof that Albanian property could be a great deal came and is leading the way in the region’s economic

Despite a stabilising economy and buyers taking advantage of low property prices in the country, house prices in Cyprus showed a ‘disappointing’ fall in the fourth quarter of 2010.  The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Cyprus Property Price Index found that values of both houses and apartments fell slightly at the end of last