Property in Italy ? The Market to Stabilize in 2010

August 30th, 2009

The Italian property market is not an exception in the economic crisis that has hit the world and it is now facing a negative trend. The picture has been taken by the intelligence company Nomisma that has presented their latest study ?The Property Market in Italy 2009?. The report shows that

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Do You Want to Live in the Country?

August 25th, 2009

Here we explore the dreams of “living in the country”. Is it all that it’s cracked up to be? What do you need to check? How many times have you heard people say, “I want to live in the country”, “I want a smallholding!”, “A holiday business!”,

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So You Want To Be A Landlord

August 24th, 2009

So you’ve purchased your first rental property and are now ready to dive into the world of being a landlord. You got a pretty good deal on that house, have run the numbers and have decided in order to cut costs to manage the property yourself instead of hiring a full service property

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Commercial Real Estate’s #1 Myth Exposed

August 24th, 2009

There it was in the Wall Street Journal last week. The headline in the Real Estate Section blared, “Apartment Vacancy Rate Hits 22-Year High !” and I murmured to myself … here we go again. It just reminded me why newspapermen are NOT Real Estate Investors … they are just

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How Will the Increase in Renting Affect the Property Market?

August 21st, 2009

Of all the various markets that have been hit by the recession, few have been as totally and utterly decimated as the property and mortgage markets. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight and intense scrutiny by everyone from politicians to journalists to local shopkeepers as to the reasons for

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Thinking of Selling?

August 20th, 2009

Are you thinking of selling? Should you wait or should you sell? Here we are looking at what your options are. Selling property, buying property, it’s all been a bit of a mess. The fact is that sometimes you can’t wait for longer and you need to sell up. Right now there is a

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A Good Time to Buy a Property in Italy

August 6th, 2009

During the last months we have seen a lot of articles talking about the price decrease of property markets all over the world. Also the prices of homes in Italy have decreased in the last months, after decades of slow but steady growth. This might sound as a bad news but actually it is

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