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  • Buying Property Abroad
    Buying Abroad - Overcoming Local Hurdles
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    In an age of 24-hour news coverage and an ever more worldly, ever-widening web, it's unsurprising that we often feel gorged on analysis, information and statistics. Take property for example. According to official figures, more than two million people own a second home in Britain. The top...

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  • Buying Property Abroad
    Buying a Property that Suits You
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    Buy property abroad that suits you as well as your pocket Until relatively recently, most people buying property abroad were buying a second home rather than an investment. Their only consideration was Do I want to let the property whilst I am not there? Nowadays, I think overseas...

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  • French Chateau
    Buying a French Chateau
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    How easy is it to turn the fairytale of owning a chateau into a reality? Could it be the Carla Bruni effect? Could it be yet another dismal British winter? Could it be the natural yearning of a Francophile? I have no idea, but what I do know is that the French way of life gets...

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  • Buying land and buiding abroad
    Buy Land and Built it yourself
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    Be innovative: buy land and build your own profit in An alternative to buying a pre-developed villa or apartment is to find yourself either a bare plot of land to build your own villa, or an old building, usually a farmhouse, for renovation. This has become an increasingly popular...

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  • Knowledge
    How To Articles
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    Investing your hard-earned cash in property is such a huge subject, sometimes it can seem overwhelming when you’re just starting out. The way to get past this is to read and research as widely as you can on the subject and get yourself a property and investing education – it’s...

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  • Investing in Current Market Conditions
    Investing in Current Market Conditions
    by Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    This article is about explaining - in property terms - where we are, what is likely to happen next, where the opportunities are, some tips and what to be wary of. Have you watched the film called The Truman Show? In it the main character, Truman Burbank, brilliantly played by Jim Carrey,...

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  • Investing in Montenegro
    Investing in Montenegro
    by Monday, March 19, 2012

    Montenegro - jewel of the Adriatic Everyone in the UK, and Western Europe for that matter, is currently being bombarded with stories of the credit crunch, mortgage lenders' interest rate hikes, reduction of loan-to-values ratios, etc. There are press stories galore of an impending...

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  • The Budget Guide to Poland
    The Budget Guide to Poland
    by Monday, March 19, 2012

    With Ryanair regularly offering flights between 24 European countries for as little as £1 each, the logistics of owning a 2 nd home abroad are simpler than ever. Here we consider a selection of budget airline destinations in Poland. Given the sheer scale of the Polish migration into...

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11th July 2013

The Ideas Factory: Pitch and Network evening Our next event will be on the Thursday, 11th July at the RADA studios . We meet every six weeks or so in Central London. New concepts are...

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