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By Ted TurnerDec 3, 20071 topic

Web Promotion With SEO

SEO or Search Engine Optimization aims at promoting the website and making online marketing a successful venture for the company. Web promotion can actually increase traffic to the website by improving page ranking. This happens because when a page has a high ranking then any relevant keyword search made by the user is diverted to the particular website. The task of getting a higher page ranking by the search engine is however, not a simple task. It requires tremendous effort

Primary topic: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 11, 20081 topic

Thinking High And Long

Those looking at overseas property investments in areas such as the Swiss Alps property may have a somewhat more complex choice to make than in days of yore. Where once it was a matter of finding attractive chalets in a snowy location for the winter, much has changed.nnFor one thing, the spectre of global warming has come to the fore. Figures from the Swiss Association of Winter Sports Resorts Property has shown that the winter season in the Alps has receded by 12 days since

Primary topic: Home Business

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By Jim BarnabyNov 12, 20071 topic

Government Bills Lay Down Housing Marker

The Queen's Speech is always an eagerly awaited occasion, partly for its pomp and ceremony, but mainly, of course, for the interest it draws to the government's legislative programme.nnAs a guide to priorities, the programme announced this week clearly indicates that the government is keen to push through its house building strategy, a move which will impact on the property investment sector. Having set a target of building three million homes by 2020, Gordon Brown will be aw

Primary topic: Home Business

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 13, 20081 topic

Cape Verde's Commercial Promise

Much has been made of the growth in the property market in the Cape Verde islands. With prices growing, new developments rising up, tourist numbers increasing and infrastructure improvements to support this including a number of new airports served by new air routes, the place appears to be soaring.nnYet for all the considerable promise of the increasingly popular islands, the nearest tropical archipelago to Britain, there is also the Cape Verde commercial property sector. Wh

Primary topic: Customer Service

Customer Service

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By Ted TurnerNov 22, 20071 topic

Basic Seo For Beginners

If you want to make your presence felt online then knowledge of SEO is very crucial. It is fast gaining ground and is an important tool that is used for making your website more popular. Competition online is very tough with several thousands trying to make a place for themselves. In such a situation just having a website of your own is not enough. Efforts to increase traffic to your website play a very important role in online marketing.nnA website that figures in the first

Primary topic: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing

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By Jim BarnabyDec 4, 20071 topic

Does Short-term Dip Mean Long Term Cuts?

The UK housing market is in a curious state in many ways. After years of high inflation driven by a strong economy and a shortfall in demand, the market has seen a slowdown since the base rate hit 5.75 per cent and the credit crunch introduced a wave of economic uncertainty. nnEvidence of the slowdown in the housing market has moved from a trickle to a flood, with predictions of low, zero or even negative growth next year, while property website Hometrack recorded a 0.1 per c

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 15, 20081 topic

Swiss Ski Property On A Roll

While the lightening afternoon skies may make many investors think ahead towards summer and dream of places with sun kissed-beaches, many have not forgotten that it is still, despite the floral evidence to the contrary in Britain, winter. nnUp on high Alpine slopes, of course, the situation is a bit different. Last year's exceptionally mild winter has been avoided and the ski slopes are covered in winter sports fanatics again. nnJust as importantly, the Swiss ski resorts prop

Primary topic: Brain Enhancement

Brain Enhancement

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By Jim BarnabyDec 6, 20071 topic

The best prospects in Scotland

In its recent prediction that suggested the UK as a whole would experience zero house price growth, Nationwide said that Scotland property would fare better than the rest of the UK, with four per cent growth in 2008, a slowdown but certainly not a juddering halt.nnThe explanation for this projected better performance had three elements. Scotland was less prone to boom-and-bust housing cycles than other parts of the UK, the house price-to-earnings ratio was more favourable to

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 7, 20071 topic

Sherry Good Prospects In Spain

The buy-to-let market, whether in the UK or overseas, is in many respects a series of markets, for the kind of property investors choose to sink their capital into will depend on the potential customer base. Thus property which is not necessarily of tip-top quality but is close to a university may work well for students. Apartments in city centres or near transport links such as rail and underground stations will appeal to professionals, while those serving the tourism sector

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Ted TurnerDec 20, 20071 topic

Used Cars Are Not Inferiors

Are you dreaming to own a Ford car? Are you in tension about money so that you could not be able to buy a precious car? If the answer is yes; then the solution is also for you. Welcoming you to the world of hi-power and reputed used ford cars . Getting demoralized after hearing the names of the used cars to buy? Don’t worry! The quality checked used cars are not inferior by any means. If you are able to get the real quality checked used car, then it will be a real profi

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Jim BarnabyJan 5, 20081 topic

A Pinch Of Salt For The Foretellers Of Gloom

The extent to which recent predictions for the fortunes of the UK property market in 2008 have cast a shadow of gloom may seem disheartening for many, be they aspiring buyers, new investors in buy-to-let or those considering an expansion of their portfolio.nnYet time and again there are both commentators willing to swim against the tide by predicting that the negative forecasts will prove to be unfounded and that, while the boom times of the last few years may be over, that b

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 16, 20081 topic

Interest In Portugal Growing

As the Spanish market has taken a few hits in recent times, many investors have been looking around for alternatives. While some have found new places to go to in Spain and some have ventured into the unknown territory of emerging markets, others have found the country next door to be of great interest.nnEvidence of this growing interest has emerged from the moveichannel.com, which has noted that the country has moved rapidly up its "top of the props" chart of the most popula

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 19, 20071 topic

Cyprus Tipped For Euro Boom

History was made this week in Cyprus when the central bank met to set interest rates. Not because it was for the first time, but because it was for the last. nnFor the record, governor Athanasios Orphanides said the three rates set, the key refinancing rate, the Lombard rate and the overnight deposit facility, would all stay as they were, the Cyprus Mail reports. nnMr Orphanides said any changes would have "no marked difference" and the monetary policy committee backed this v

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 21, 20081 topic

Broker Expectations Rise

In a period when the property market has seen falling prices, restricted credit and one of the biggest mortgage lenders in the land having first to go begging to the Bank of England to stay afloat and now be nationalised, some might expect that buy-to-let investors should concentrate purely on riding out the storm in the hope that by taking a long-term view their investments will bear fruit in years to come.nnNot so, it seems. Today Alliance & Leicester stated that the expect

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 14, 20071 topic

Investors Have Fast Train To Paris

When George Orwell wrote Down and Out in London and Paris, he was writing about life as a homeless person in the two capitals, perhaps never imagining that one day people would be not just anything but homeless in either city, but able to commute between them with impunity. nnYet while the literary giant did not see the future past 1984, the world in 2007, with its speed of travel, plus telecommunications and IT connections makes such things possible. An employee in London ca

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 31, 20071 topic

Christmas Cheer Or Bah Humbug?

Earlier this week, the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said that over 3.5 million Britons will be jetting off to the sun over the Christmas and New Year period. Among this small army of those leaving behind the cold and wet of the British winter to spend the festive season in the sun, the most popular destinations were the Canary Islands, Egypt and Goa. nnAs yet, the Cape Verde islands are not among the top destinations, but some may wonder how much longer that wi

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 17, 20071 topic

Hips View That Swings The Other Way

Today, just for the benefit of anyone who had been away on a canoeing trip and had lost their memory, the Department for Communities and Local Government issued a reminder that there are just three days to go until the final roll-out of the controversial home information pack (Hips) scheme is complete.nnNot, of course, that anyone concerned with the housing industry will have forgotten. As well as the strongly-held views of the government and Hips providers on the one hand an

Primary topic: Investing

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By Ted TunerOct 17, 20071 topic

Indoor Signage- The Clients' Next Need

Interior signage is a big market and industry for advertising agencies that has an immense potential. Office spaces have been growing rapidly over the last decade with new and more entrepreneurs springing up and constructing huge offices and enhancing the industry. With the growth of new entrepreneurs catapulting up, the services of advertising professionals have also witnessed a boom. Office spaces require plaques, logos, interior designing, name and number plates, office si

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Jim BarnabyOct 3, 20071 topic

Buy-to-let Stands While Housing Market Falls

More information has emerged today to demonstrate the contrast between the buy-to-let UK property market and the residential house buying market.nThe ability of buy-to-let to withstand a housing downturn or even slump has been questioned, although Ray Boulger of John Charcol said this week the investors who are looking to the long-term will have factored ups and downs in the market into their calculations. This will leave only those looking for a quick buck to get their finge

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Jim BarnabyNov 21, 20071 topic

Top Of The Scots

It's now widely accepted that the UK housing market has all but ground to a halt. Some believe this is temporary, pessimists believe it will be the beginning of a downward spiral, while others suggest Britain is simply due a fallow period to let things settle down and get back into kilter following years of high inflation in the market.nnThis last view was expressed by Nationwide today, which predicted that over the course of 2007 the country as a whole will have seen house p

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Jim BarnabyOct 12, 20071 topic

Buy-for-uni Offering Many Options

Of all the variations on the traditional act of people nbuying a mortgage simply as a home to live in themselves, nbuy-for-uni is a somewhat unusual one.nnSuch a mortgage, which is presently only offered by one building society, works by securing the property bought for the student to live in while at university on their parent's home, which then make the student liable for ensuring the payments through their responsibility to their parents. nnIn practice, of course, this is

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Ted TurnerDec 18, 20071 topic

Condo Frequently Ask Questions

In these days of high cost, people often look for the cheaper ways to spend their lives. It is seemed that the price of the general needs of the people is damn high in price in general. The general needs to live a life for a common people are the foods, clothes and accommodation. All of them are very much costly days. Relatively the accommodation component of self owned house is seemed to be more expensive these days since the one time money investment is necessary to buy or

Primary topic: Investing

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By Jim BarnabyNov 17, 20071 topic

Cape Verde: The New Carribbean - Or Even Better?

Investing in France Property has always been a popular way for Britons to secure a piece of foreign property, with the country second only to Spain, but the country is perhaps an even better location into which investors should sink their hard-earned than its Iberian neighbour across the Pyrenees, one expert has stated.nnSimon Walker, sales manager for the French property portal , Off Plan International, has described France as being an essentially safe option, retaining a re

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 20, 20071 topic

No Train Strain For Spain?

Yesterday, amid great ceremony and under a spanking new roof which had replaced its dingy predecessor, the revamped St Pancras, recently re-opened by the Queen, began its role as the new London hub for the Eurostar and waved off the first of the new high-speed generation of trains as it hurtled towards Paris.nnReaching speeds of 186mph, the Tread Lightly - so named for its eco-friendly credentials - sped through the blurred Kent countryside, under the Channel and reached Pari

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 27, 20071 topic

Why Investors In France Are Not Beached

Those looking at property investment in France have the luxury of a variety of different possible markets to serve. There are those who fancy commuting from Paris or other parts of the north to London via the Channel Tunnel. There are those who fancy a place among the famous vineyards. Alternatively, there those who seek the ski resorts in the Alps. nnThen there is the south, with a strong market here for both migrants and holidaymakers, with the warmth and lifestyle of the C

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Ted TurnerDec 11, 20071 topic

Basics Of Condos

In these days of less amount of accommodation availability people often seemed to be interested in joint accommodation systems. By these systems more than one people would able to be accommodated in same place but in different rooms. Generally lots of joint housing complexes could be seen in this entire globe. But among all of these the most important joint accommodations are the condominiums or simply the condos. These condos or the condominiums are very much popular among t

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Jim BarnabyDec 10, 20071 topic

For Lifestyle Or Money?

There area many reasons why people buy property abroad. Some are after a buy-to-let rental income in the long-term. Some want to buy and then sell at a profit in a growing market. Some look for a place to call their second home and those emigrating one to call their first. nnWhen it comes to choosing where to buy, these considerations are critical to the final decision, according to property company Property Frontiers. nnA spokesperson said the situation emerging at present w

Primary topic: Personal Development

Personal Development

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By Jim BarnabyDec 29, 20071 topic

Next Year's Cape Christmas Cracker?

Earlier this week, the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said that over 3.5 million Britons will be jetting off to the sun over the Christmas and New Year period. Among this small army of those leaving behind the cold and wet of the British winter to spend the festive season in the sun, the most popular destinations were the Canary Islands, Egypt and Goa. nnAs yet, the Cape Verde islands are not among the top destinations, but some may wonder how much longer that wi

Primary topic: Investing

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By Ted TunerOct 18, 20071 topic

Vehicle Graphics- The Next Biggest Revolution

Promotional signage includes various kinds of banner and vehicle graphics and witty promotion strategies. Signarama uses various designs and graphics for outdoor and indoor designing and branding. These are amongst the top priorities in the wish list of corporate houses looking for strategic advertising. These packages are tailored well to cater to your advertising needs and help in promotional campaigns.nnThey include vehicle poster graphics designing that has an immense pot

Primary topic: Business Start-up

Business Start-up

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By Jim BarnabyDec 28, 20071 topic

Time For The Speculation To End

The old saying "speculate to accumulate" may ring true - but in more than one way when it comes to the buy-to-let market. Accumulating failure appears to be the way for some in the buy-to-let market as the nature of the industry and the state of the housing scene tilts the advantages all towards the long-term landlord. nnSuch a point was made by Tom Entwistle, editor of landlord portal Landlord Zone. Mr Entwistle pointed out that where prices are falling, the speculators are

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 5, 20071 topic

Commercial Property - the new investment opportunity

The buy-to-let property market has come in for some heavy stick in recent months, with all kinds of negative predictions for the near future. This has been true for the housing market as a whole of course, with the Hometrack survey this week setting alarm bells ringing by showing a 0.1 per cent fall in prices. nnNationwide's revelation two days later that October house prices actually climbed by 1.1 per cent provided a rather more upbeat picture, even if the building society'

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 28, 20071 topic

Aiming Low To Earn High

Investors in overseas property may have felt somewhat negative about the prospects for Alpine ski resorts after last winter. The unusually mild season left many resorts despairing as slopes that would normally be filled with skiers were brown, muddy wastelands with barely a flake of snow.nnThe bad winter suffered by resorts, particularly those at lower levels, led many to wonder what future there was in a world beset by global warming. Earlier this week Deutsche Welle reporte

Primary topic: Home Business

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By Jim BarnabyNov 21, 20071 topic

Everything In Its Season With Spanish Property

Given the kind of headlines which have emerged with the slowdown in the Spanish property market , one might sense the palpitations experienced by news that property sales in the country are going down by 45 to 50 per cent this winter.nnThe reality, however, is very different, according to Les Calvert, director of overseas Spain real estate website Property-abroad.com. nn"Sales obviously do decrease over the winter period, especially on Spanish mainland," said Mr Calvert, who

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 23, 20071 topic

Caribbean Appeal Brings Cape Verde Closer

That Cape Verde is emerging as one of the most exciting new markets for property investors is not in doubt. Stories of the increase in the number of people buying Cape Verde property in the islands and the growth of tourism are well-documented trends. But the specific marketing of the islands as the Caribbean on Europe's doorstep is what has given it a special appeal, property magazine Buy Association has said.nnPaul Collins, overseas property editor for the publication, said

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 24, 20071 topic

Base Rate Uncertainty May Drag On

The time between the announcement of the monthly decision by the Bank of England's rate-setting monetary policy committee (MPC) and the publication of the minutes is frequently filled with speculation about how the committee might have voted. Partly this may be due to the fact that nature abhors a vacuum, but when there is widespread expectation of forthcoming changes in rates the significance of the discussion increases. nnSuch a situation was certainly the case during this

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyMar 6, 20081 topic

Boom Amid The Billion

As the second largest country by population in the world, India was always likely to make an enormous impact if it ever began to punch its weight economically. Now this appears to be happening, with rapid industrial and technological advancement, economic liberalisation and an influx of foreign investment, many of those looking to buy investment property will look at both the India commercial property and India residential property sectors.nnIn the latter case, the potential

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 29, 20071 topic

Relentless Rent Rise Roars On

With the end of the year drawing close, analysts will be able to look back on a 2007 of two distinct phrases. Up to July, the housing market continued to boom, talk of a housing market slowdown appeared as risible as it had turned out to be in 2006 and first-time buyers sought mortgages of ever-increasing loan-to-value rates.nnThen, of course, came the peak of interest rates at 5.75 per cent in July, a level which did not rise further as some had anticipated but remained unti

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyJan 15, 20081 topic

Property Experts Say: It's Not Grim Up North

The decision of the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold yesterday may tempted some to predict more hard times ahead for the property industry. Notwithstanding the widespread expectation that rates will fall next month, there are many who would beg to differ.nnBuy-to-let is certainly one sector where this is increasingly the case. Speaking to 999 Today, Neil Young, chief executive of the Young Group property investment firm, said the issues are not all about the wid

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 21, 20081 topic

Recovery - But How Soon?

The last week has, as usual, seen some mixed news about the property market. In between predictions of further falls in house prices have been forecasts of recovery. Mixed news from the Bank of England in its quarterly inflation report may only have added to the uncertainty some could be forgiven for feeling just now.nnAn example of this lack of clarity has emerged from a poll over house prices held by Headline Property. Asked the question of whether house prices will go on f

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 11, 20071 topic

Property Market Recovery May Start Here

Following the credit crunch and the interest rate increases over the last 16 months, the housing market has seen a significant slowdown. With Halifax revealing a 1.1 per cent house price fall for November on the back of smaller falls in September and October, the situation looked less than promising for the market.nnNot surprisingly, those involved in the housing industry have been calling for a rate cut, adding to the pressure applied by signs of a wider economic slowdown. I

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyFeb 15, 20081 topic

City Living Prospects 'Still Strong'

Of all the claims made about the state of the property investment market, one of the most common is that the city living trend in regional cities is grinding to a halt. While more and more apartments have been built in cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Leeds, these have now reached the point of oversupply, it has frequently been claimed, with falling prices and lack of demand cited as evidence. nnNot so, developer Urban Splash believes. Speaking to TheBusin

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 23, 20071 topic

Watch For Oversaturation, Warns BSA

With the future of the UK property market, both residential and buy-to-let, subject to so much uncertainty and speculation, many will wonder if any clear idea can be formed about where the best investments, if there are any, are to be found.nnNeil Johnson, PR policy manager at the Building Societies Association (BSA), has said that there are undoubtedly still good deals out there, but what matters, not unusually, is location. nnThis will be reflected in the way lenders will s

Primary topic: Business Opportunities

Business Opportunities

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By Jim BarnabySep 28, 20071 topic

Cape Verde Promises Long Seasons In The Sun

Among all the island paradises where British tourists may wish to go, the Cape Verde holiday home is emerging as one of the most attractive. Much nearer than the Maldives and not prone to seasonal storms like the Caribbean, the archipelago off the coast of west Africa, a former Portuguese colony, has emerged as an increasingly popular place to go.n nYet it is still only just being discovered, according to Global Emerging Market Estates, a company specialising in property in C

Primary topic: Business Opportunities

Business Opportunities

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By Jim BarnabyDec 5, 20071 topic

Tax the way to do it

Inheritance Tax (IHT) has been a big issue in Britain recently, with newspaper campaigns for its abolition, a pledge to raise the threshold to £1 million by the Conservatives and an immediate doubling of the threshold for couples to £600,000 in response by the Labour government in the pre-budget report.nnYet for all the interest in the tax in Britain, it is an issue in other countries too, not least for UK investors looking to build up a property portfolio. nnThe ke

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 8, 20071 topic

London 'To Weather Property Storm'

For the last few years London has been one of the areas pushing UK property inflation the most. Whatever the average price rise, London's has been higher, with prime central London areas seeing the biggest booms.n nRecent figures, however, have suggested this capital trend has reversed. The latest set of Land Registry figures, among the few to show an overall increase (albeit 0.1 per cent) in house prices, stated that the capital had experienced a 0.6 fall in prices, the most

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyJan 25, 20081 topic

How Long-Term Investment Pays

In the current climate with its talk of crunching credit, plummeting prices and declining dividends, many have seen the buy-to-let market as a near-certain victim of the emerging economic circumstances.nnNot so, it seems, judging by recent surveys in the industry, which have found the majority of investors feeling rather more optimistic than one might expect. What the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) this month, plus Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyOct 30, 20071 topic

Cyprus Offering New Charms

There is an old French saying that "the more things change, the more they stay the same". This might be applied to many things, but the Cypriot property market is not one of them. It is an island where there is constant and change in equal measure.n nWhat undoubtedly stays the same is the timeless appeal: sunshine, beaches, azure sea, historic links with Britain (plus right-hand drive) and a cultural richness that encompasses a large number of civilisations stretching back in

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyNov 22, 20071 topic

Cyprus Stable As Euro Day Looms

Investors in Cyprus property looking to secure a piece of real estate in Cyprus , whether as a retirement home or as a buy-to-let property to serve the army of tourists who descend on the sun-blessed Mediterranean island every year, will have been keeping an eye on the economy. nnThe news is good for Cyprus, which is just as well because it is less than two months from a key moment in its economic and political history, when, unlike Britain, it ditches the pound and adopts th

Primary topic: Business Opportunities

Business Opportunities

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By Jim BarnabyNov 16, 20071 topic

Why Down South Is Still Up Top In France

Investing in France Property has always been a popular way for Britons to secure a piece of foreign property, with the country second only to Spain, but the country is perhaps an even better location into which investors should sink their hard-earned than its Iberian neighbour across the Pyrenees, one expert has stated.nnSimon Walker, sales manager for the French property portal , Off Plan International, has described France as being an essentially safe option, retaining a re

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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By Jim BarnabyDec 19, 20071 topic

Squaring The Circle On House-buying And Rents

Those who seek to analyse the fortunes of the UK property market from the point of view of buy-to-let lenders may possibly wonder how a downturn in the residential market can coincide with an increase in rents. After all, the boom in buy-to-let in recent years has occurred at exactly the same time that credit has been plentiful, house prices have been rising and the economy stable. Buy-to-let has appeared to be a child of the housing boom. How, some may ask, can it not now be

Primary topic: Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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