The buying opportunity of a decade

Property markets are cyclical, and the time to buy prime property is now, during the bust, when everyone else is trying to sell. We could be on the threshold of the buying opportunity of the decade.

Don’t mention the bust

Britons piled into Spanish property and got burnt. The Germans bided their time. Now they’re starting to come back, should we follow?
We may fancy ourselves as a nation of hot shot property investors, but are we really any good at investing abroad? Not if our record in Spain is anything to go by. Many British [...]

New David Lloyd Resort in Spain offers shared ownership homes for as little as £24,000

A new David Lloyd Resort opening this month in south-east Spain is offering holiday homes for sale on a shared-ownership basis at prices as low as £24,000 with a potential for investment benefit.

Repossessions, distressed sales? What do Spanish banks really have to offer?

There was an interesting couple of articles this week in the Spanish daily ‘El Mundo’ about bank repossessions in Spain, and what the 10 biggest lenders are offering investors.

Spanish property investment gone wrong turns out good in the end

This personal account of a Spanish property investment gone wrong was sent in by email for publication.
Though a thoroughly unpleasant experience for the investor, he ended up making money, and doing vastly better than he would have with his money tied up in a blue-chip British banking stock like, say, RBS, or even in [...]

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