Posts from — March 2008

With ski apartments available from £100,000, relaxed buying laws and a stable economy, Switzerland is not just for the ultra-rich, says Cathy Hawker, Evening Standard

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 NEW DELHI: India’s booming real estate industry, growing at a scorching 30 per cent and estimated to touch $60 billion by 2010, has caught the fancy of global realtors and investors who have pumped in or are looking to invest heavily in the sector.

Indian real estate industry, which is currently pegged at 16 billion dollars, is witnessing increased interest from several international developers, primarily from the Middle-East, South-East Asia and Europe.

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London’s housing market continues to defy the skeptics. While prices are slumping around the U.K., London valuations remain on pace for a 17 percent increase in 2007, according to the latest Financial Times house price index.

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By Sara Seddon Kilbinger
From The Wall Street Journal Online

The housing markets in the U.S. and the United Kingdom have been slowing, but in India, large-scale residential projects are only getting bigger.

India’s massive urban migration — it is estimated that 220 million people there will migrate to cities in the next decade — has triggered a slew of large-scale residential developments. The rural exodus is largely being driven by workers leaving India’s agricultural sector to take up more-lucrative employment in the rapidly expanding service and manufacturing industries.

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Investors seeking profits in French real estate can often find it in rentals, rehabs and high-end properties. France offers a wide array of investment opportunities which vary greatly by location, from scenic countryside villas and homes in Provence, Languedoc and Bordeaux to luxury apartments in Paris to ski chalets in the Alps and Pyrenees to apartments and villas along the Atlantic coast and the French Riviera.

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