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• Top 5 Overseas Property Investment Hotspots for 2012
  It's been a funny old year 2011, with the funniest unfunny thing that happened being the epicentre of the international financial crisis shifting from the United States to the United Europe, sorry t...
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• How the rich are investing in real estate right now
  I was catching up on a backlog of reading last weekend when I came across an interesting, if worrisome, article in The Economist. In it, the British newsmagazine suggested the Canadian real estate m...
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• House Hunting in ... Turkey
  This 1920s-era house is on tranquil Buyukada, the largest of the nine Princes’ Islands, 12 miles off Istanbul. It has two stories and about 3,800 square feet of space, on a 12,400-square-fo...
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• Low interest rates keeping residential properties in New Zealand affordable, it is claimed
  Higher residential property prices in New Zealand means that home loan affordability is also on the rise but experts believe that an improving outlook for lower interest rates is boosting turnover an...
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• Emerging markets in Africa driving forward office market demand, report shows
  Occupier demand in Middle East and Africa region office market is expected to grow despite recent turmoil in the area with Angloa and Nigeria leading the way.
  
  Growth in banking, telec...
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	Middle East

• Abu Dhabi May Reach for Checkbook Again After Aldar’s $9.8 Billion Bailout
  Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich sheikhdom that spent 36 billion dirhams ($9.8 billion) bailing out its biggest developer in 2011, will probably reach for its checkbook again as property companies in the Uni...
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• Small rise in property sales in Dubai
  Property sales in Dubai are 70% less than they were at the peak of the market in the middle of 2008 but a small rise in transactions is being hailed as a good sign.
  
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• Property rental sharing launching in Dubai
  A group buying website is linking up with a major Middle East developer to offer discounts on rental property in Dubai.
  
  Grosper, a new group buying website, launches later this month ...
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• Financial check on real estate projects to start in Dubai
  The Real Estate Regulatory Authority in Dubai has accredited 18 auditing firms to conduct financial check on property projects in the emirate.
  
  RERA, the regulatory arm of the Land Dep...
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• Housing plans revived as Bahrain recovers from unrest
  Bahrain is continuing to show gradual economic recovery and political stability in light of recent events earlier this year with the government again focussing on domestic issues such as housing. ... more

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	Asia

• China Home Prices Mark Worst Performance as Only Two Cities Posting Gains
  China’s December home prices posted their worst performance last year, with only two of the 70 cities tracked posting gains, as the government reiterated its plans to maintain housing curbs. ... more
• Chinese Property Buyers Boost Role in Singapore
  An unexpected increase in Chinese property buyers is moving Singapore's real-estate market, in the latest sign of the effects of Chinese money elsewhere in Asia.
  
  For years, Indonesian...
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• All sectors of Thai property market affected by floods
  Floods have had a vast impact on the property market in Thailand with sectors affected across the board, according to international property consultants CBRE.
  
  In the short term, resid...
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• China Alarms Go Off -- Time to Hedge Bets
  I’m concerned with what’s possibly a massive bubble in China.
  
  The real estate market is signaling alarms and may eventually fall into a worse situation than we had in the ...
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• Thailand floods to boost demand for second homes, estate agent says
  Well-off Thais could be looking for more second homes outside the capital after this year's floods, a leading real estate consultant said Monday.
  
  'Overall, the flooding will result in...
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	North America

• North Dakota oil boom fuels real estate sales in Arizona
  Flush with cash from an oil boom and plentiful jobs, North Dakotans are snapping up homes 1,500 miles away in balmy Arizona, where prices have plunged since the real estate bubble burst.
  
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• U.S. Is Top 12 Property Investment Pick
  Most individuals around the world who are interested in property investment favor the United States as an investment location. Some investors were lost to Brazil. According to the experts, the U.S. ...
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• US Apartment Investment Surging
  Apartment fundamentals have improved significantly and are outpacing the recovery of other property types. After peaking at 8.0 percent in the first quarter of 2010, the national apartment vacancy r...
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• Mexico, Cuba Lead Foreign Home Buyers Finding Bargains in U.S. Real Estate
  Buyers from outside of the United States are taking advantage of the overall affordability of real estate in today’s market. The number of foreigners purchasing homes at discounted prices has ...
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• Sales of Existing U.S. Homes End 2011 on High Note: Economy
  Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose in December to the highest level since January 2011, adding to evidence residential real estate was stabilizing heading into the new year.
  
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	Europe

• Europe losing investment appeal
  Europe's sovereign debt problems and looming recession have pushed most European countries - except for a few, such as Switzerland and Poland - off the map for US property investors, Reuters has rep...
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• UK Property Rents Trending Up
  The UK residential property market is seeing rising yields on rental properties as a result of increased tenant demand and rising rents, according to the latest Residential Lettings Survey from the ...
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• Pre 1919 UK property prices have increased the most in last 25 years
  Properties built in the UK before 1919 have seen the biggest surge in prices in the last 25 years, according to new research published today (Friday 02 December).
  
  The Halifax Property...
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• Germany retail property sector attracting most investment
  Real estate investors in Germany put a total of €7.87 billion in retail property by the end of the third quarter of 2011, putting the sector far ahead of all other categories for this year, new...
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• Scottish island with planning permission comes onto the market
  A Scottish island with uninterrupted views across to the west coast and planning permission to build holiday accommodation has been put up for sale.
  
  Eilean Balnagowan off Cuil Bay on ...
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	Latin America

• Brazilian residential property prices expected to rise by up to 10% in 2012
  Property prices in Brazil are likely to increase modestly, around 5 to 10%, in 2012 and the real estate sector should avoid a bubble, according to a poll of real estate and financial experts.
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• Argentina’s biggest developer looking to Europe for property investment
  Argentina’s biggest real estate developer is to look for opportunities in crisis stricken Europe and keep expanding its business in the United States and Argentina, it has been announced.
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• A million acres of agricultural land in Argentina for sale
  Estancia Punta del Agua, the largest ever block of freehold land to come onto the market in Argentina is being sold by a London based agent.
  
  The estate in San Juan province in the nor...
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• Mexico's Next Real Estate Investment Hotspot
  Most of the world's wealthiest people, have accumulated a large portion of their wealth through successful real estate ventures.
  
  There are many ways to make money in real estate, but ...
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• Brazil’s “Quiet” Real Estate Boom
  Spend an hour talking with Alpine Woods Capital fund manager, Joel Wells, and he’ll turn you into a true believer. Wells’ bullishness on Brazilian real estate is contagious. If commercia...
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