Category — Property News

- 15,601* visitors in search of their very own place in the sun
- Exhibitors report high levels of business and high-quality leads
- New, independent advice-led seminar programme an overwhelming success
- 57 countries represented, the broadest selection of any multi-country show
 
A Place in the Sun Live – in association with Moneycorp – held at the NEC Birmingham from 28th-30th September, has been hailed a major success by exhibitors, visitors and organiser Brooklands Group, retaining its status as the biggest and best-attended exhibition of its kind in the UK, if not the world.

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DUBBED the “jet-to-let set”, first-time buyers unable to get on to the property ladder in the UK are investing in property abroad, a new study has revealed.

Once dominated by middle-aged “second homers” and retired couples, the overseas market is proving increasingly popular with young people who are looking to rent out a property abroad which can then be sold, and the equity used as a deposit on their first UK home.

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 The problems of first-time buyers have been extremely well documented so the results of a recent survey from the Bradford & Bingley Building Society come as no surprise.In it, 2/5 potential first-time buyers are holding down two jobs, 42% are receiving help from their parents and 43% have even thought about giving up buying altogether.In this current climate, buyers are having to come up with ever more innovative ways of getting on the first rung of the ladder, and an increasing number are buying their first property abroad. A recent survey from YouGov found that nearly half of 18 to 29-year-olds plan to buy abroad and that for two thirds of these it would be their first purchase.

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