Overseas Property Investment Advice Keeping In The Family

It seems that British investors are uncomfortable about asking for financial advice investment products from stocks and shares to asking for overseas property investment advice. A report from independent financial product researchers Defaqto, the Retirement Savings and Income Report, shows that consumers in the UK prefer to consult friends and family, Investment Company or [...]

Swiss Real Estate Market in Relatively Good Shape

The FINANCIAL — The Swiss residential property market is in the middle of a soft landing. There is no prospect of Switzerland suffering the kind of upheaval experienced by property markets in other countries. This is the conclusion reached by Credit Suisses economists in their latest Real Estate Study.
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GIC Real Estate Acquires The Westin Tokyo from Morgan Stanley Fund and Starwood Capital Group Funds

The FINANCIAL — GIC Real Estate, the property investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Starwood Capital Group Global, LLC and Morgan Stanley Capital K.K. announced on February 26 that an affiliate of GIC Real Estate has completed the transaction to purchase The Westin Tokyo from a special purpose company owned by real estate funds [...]

CapitaLand Net Rises 49% on Investments Home Sales (Update5)

CapitaLand Net Rises 49% on Investments, Home Sales (Update5)
By Jean Chua
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — CapitaLand Ltd., Southeast Asias
largest developer, said fourth-quarter profit jumped 49 percent
as property investments rose in value and the company sold more
homes in China, Australia and [...]

World Superstars Boost Sofia Property Prices

Obelisk says Sofia property investments are attracting the attention of Hollywood [...]

Australian firms cancel European REIT

Babcock %26 Brown shares dropped 2 percent Thursday, closing 49 cents, or 38.7 U.S. cents, lower as 23.51 dollars, trimming its gains for the year to 37 percent, more than double the return of the 56-member S%26P/ASX 200 Finance index. GPT stock fell 2.8 percent to 4.91 dollars.
Britain is following Brazil, France, Hong Kong, [...]

Property shares on the decline

Metrovacesa, the largest Spanish real estate developer, has fallen by a third. The British hotel manager Vector Hospitality in June pulled what would have been the biggest stock sale by a real estate company in Europe.
The dividend yield - what a company pays to investors as a proportion of its share price - is the [...]

Treasurer queries bank’s interest rate rise

THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has sought urgent briefings from key financial and regulatory agencies about a decision by the ANZ Bank to lift its standard variable mortgage rate by almost double the amount announced by NAB last week.ANZ said yesterday it would increase the interest rate on its standard variable home loans by 0.20 percentage [...]

Ad4Profit Lets Advertisers Earn Interest on their Ad Costs

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 12, 2007 — While smart companies have always thought of advertising as an investment, Ad4Profit%26#039;s new service gives advertisers an almost immediate return on their advertising costs through a combination of image-based ads and profit sharing.
Advertisers place graphic advertisements on www.ad4profit.com in blocks as small as 10 x 10 pixels. [...]

Baby Boomers Find Gold in Mexican Beachfront Property

One in four baby boomers are discovering the long-term benefits of property investment and they are seeing a significant return for their diligent investment efforts. Puerto Vallarta real estate is being positioned as the next property hotspot for baby boomer investments.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (PRWEB) February 22, 2007 — One in four baby boomers are discovering [...]