DSR Asset Management Overseas Property Investments

2Sep/090

Echo Beach A Piece of Investment Paradise

DSR have recently added the oppor­tu­nity to buy a true piece of se to their port­fo­lio with the avail­abil­ity of beau­ti­ful beach front land plots in Beach­port Aus­tralia prop­erty at Echo Beach.an pur­chase an exclu­sive beach­front land plot in one of the world’s most eco­nom­i­cally sta­ble regions and one that is pre­dicted to be one of the most pros­per­ous for investors, whom are already head­ing to the coun­try in droves.

Echo Beach is sit­u­ated on the south coast of Aus­tralia in Beach­port, located on the famous Lime­stone coast at the north­ern end of Riv­oli Bay, which is very pop­u­lar with a mul­ti­tude of water sports from sim­ple sail­ing to jet ski­ing. Beach­port also boasts the sec­ond longest jetty in the whole of South Aus­tralia, at 772 metres it is no won­der the area is a renowned fish­ing spot.

Land like Echo Beach rarely gets pur­chased as more and more peo­ple become con­sci­en­tious about con­serv­ing the nat­ural envi­ron­ment, mak­ing it truly exclu­sive. How­ever if these beau­ti­ful land plots do get devel­oped on, only the green­est of Eco-Villas will be care­fully con­structed to respect this truly stun­ning piece of coast­line, which faces the shel­tered and relaxed bay.

The invest­ment prop­erty itself is equally as pleas­ing as the loca­tion. You will be hard pushed to find such a clear and safe plan with the return poten­tial that Echo Beach demon­strates. You can own a piece of Echo Beach from as lit­tle as £15,700 up to £29,700 depend­ing on the spe­cific plot loca­tion, with an inde­pen­dently pro­jected cap­i­tal growth of 10–15% per year on your invest­ment, and with a max­i­mum invest­ment period of five years, your money will be doubled.

The plan is not just lucra­tive, but safe too. An investor is not con­tracted to stay in for any amount of time and so can sell their land when they wish, but there is already a clear exit plan for Echo Beach investors. The area already has plan­ning per­mis­sion for res­i­den­tial sta­tus, but resort sta­tus if granted, would push the land value through the roof (well above the 10–15% pre­dicted). If the unlikely event this is not granted then the land will be sold as a whole with each investors returns being accounted for as expected.

There is also a guar­an­teed return as pro­vided by the ven­dor, who have an excep­tion­ally keen inter­est in the land as they retain a mas­sive 25% inter­est in Echo Beach, mean­ing they will strive to make every­thing work, not only for them­selves but for the investor too, who’s money will be indi­vid­u­ally accounted for specif­i­cally to them and not lumped together with others.

The oppor­tu­nity for invest­ing in Echo Beach is truly some­thing to seri­ously con­sider. The invest­ment is as safe as they get. This should be put in the con­text of the cur­rent Aus­tralian econ­omy and prop­erty mar­ket which is cur­rently one of the best in the world and it is eas­ily realised that there really is a lot of money to be made in South Australia.

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About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR, giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR. edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty investment.

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2Sep/090

South Australia Virtually Defies Recession

A recent report pro­duced by the Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment on South Australia’s eco­nomic per­for­mance, has revealed how strong it is per­form­ing in these times of global eco­nomic decline.

The report is a study from the year 2000 until May 2009 and has some very pos­i­tive indi­ca­tions indeed. It appears that since the year 2000 South Aus­tralia prop­erty has gone from strength to strength and from the advent of the reces­sion it has even con­tin­ued to grow in many sec­tors, show­ing both the resilient nature and poten­tial of the area.

Employ­ment in May 2009 was at a record level at close to 800,000 whilst unem­ploy­ment was just 5.6 % at the same time. Much, much bet­ter than in places like Britain. Pop­u­la­tion growth in the area is also up, the high­est since records began.

These fac­tors have led to the decline of new hous­ing con­struc­tion to be down just 2.1 % on last year, whilst the national aver­age decline is 24.7 %. This has kept prices low, but the prop­erty mar­ket strong mak­ing South Aus­tralia a top prop­erty invest­ment des­ti­na­tion. Busi­ness invest­ment too is at another record high at $10.3 Bil­lion at the end of the March quar­ter 2009, rein­forc­ing the belief that the econ­omy will recover by next year and so mak­ing Aus­tralia the cur­rent invest­ment choice.

South Australia’s finan­cial posi­tion could not be bet­ter given the cur­rent cli­mate. It is ranked as hav­ing a AAA credit rat­ing whilst Ade­laide (the state cap­i­tal) is ranked as being the cheap­est cap­i­tal city to both live and do business.

The state of South Aus­tralia also has poten­tial to go from strength to strength in eco­nomic terms, it has an abun­dance of nat­ural resources such as a huge min­ing reserves, renew­able energy resources and $44.8 Bil­lion of projects lined up. It also cur­rently the 4th most afford­able place to buy a house in Australia.

So what does this mean for the Aus­tralian prop­erty mar­ket now and in the future? David Red­fern, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd. explains that “the cur­rent prices for prop­erty are lower now than a year ago, whilst the rest of the econ­omy is con­tin­u­ing to grow.

By next year the econ­omy is set to recover and so then too will the prices of prop­erty. If I were going to invest or to buy prop­erty in South Aus­tralia now is the time to do so. The state has so much poten­tial that it will in no doubt become extremely pop­u­lar, increas­ing demand and dri­ving up prices.”

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd. has some excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ties to invest or buy prop­erty in Aus­tralia. From beach front land plots on Echo Beach to three bed­room houses in adven­tur­ous Lake­side in Ade­laide itself, both with excel­lent invest­ment poten­tial. The report has shown that now really is the time to invest or buy prop­erty in South Australia.

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About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR, giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR. edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty investment.

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2Sep/090

Echo Beach Plots in Australia

Echo Beach Plots in Aus­tralia – a High Reward/Low Risk Invest­ment Strat­egy.
David Airey, pres­i­dent of the Real Estate Insti­tute of Aus­tralia said last week “I’ve been des­per­ately try­ing not to call it but I think we’ve seen the bot­tom and we’re see­ing investors com­ing back into the market….

“…. there’s been an enor­mous change in con­sumer sen­ti­ment and one pos­i­tive sign after another….”

Australia’s lead­ing provider of indus­try research, analy­sis and fore­cast­ing ser­vices agrees.

“From here, recov­ery in hous­ing demand is expected to broaden and deepen,” opined Angie Zigo­ma­nis of BIS Shrap­nel, “…By the end of 2009, strong turnover of the most afford­able prop­er­ties will be flow­ing through into the bulk of house­holds posi­tioned towards the mid­dle of the market…’

But what hap­pens if the experts are proved wrong?

Well the answer could be – don’t buy a house yet – but grab a piece of desir­able land. After all, as Mark Twain observed, they are not mak­ing any more of it. For a tiny frac­tion of the cost of a fin­ished home you could buy a prime beach­front plot. If real estate prices defy the experts and fall, then your loss is strictly lim­ited, but if prices rise as pre­dicted, your gain will be magnified.

The pic­turesque sea­side town of Beach­port is cen­trally located on the world famous Lime­stone Coast, just over an hour’s drive from Mount Gam­bier, the second-largest city in South Aus­tralia prop­erty. Tens of thou­sands of tourists come every year to enjoy its relaxed atmos­phere and stun­ning coast­line, to sun them­selves or walk on wide stretches of beach. The clear, shel­tered waters of Riv­oli Bay are per­fect for all denom­i­na­tions of water sports.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd are offer­ing beach­front and direct ocean view plots for sale in Beach­port Aus­tralia. Echo Beach is a unique devel­op­ment of 65 acres, with plots from 500 sq m start­ing from as low as £15,000 and ris­ing to £30,000. The land comes com­plete with plan­ning approval, and is of strictly lim­ited avail­abil­ity, which is an his­toric dri­ver of price appre­ci­a­tion. Inde­pen­dent esti­mates of likely cap­i­tal growth range from 10–15% per annum if things stay as they are

But that is just the bot­tom line.

If the enhanced plan­ning cur­rently being actively sought by the devel­op­ers of Echo Beach for expanded ameni­ties is approved — and there is every like­li­hood that it will be – investors should see an addi­tional 5–10 times cap­i­tal growth, again based on inde­pen­dent mar­ket esti­mates. That is a quite stag­ger­ing rate of return, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the global eco­nomic down­turn. You would be pushed to get this from invest­ing in a fluke penny stock, yet here you have a real­is­tic chance of a prop­erty ten-bagger from a secure invest­ment in land.

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About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an over­seas prop­erty spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR, giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR. edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty investment.

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7Jul/090

Eastern Europe’s Bright Economic Future

Alba­nia, with EU help is mak­ing moves toward spread­ing afflu­ence out from the cap­i­tal and other eco­nom­i­cally strong areas to some of the more impov­er­ished areas in the coun­try. But the moves Alba­nia is mak­ing are set to make a big dif­fer­ence to some of Albania’s neigh­bours, spread­ing afflu­ence through­out the region.

For a start Kosovo has just declared its inde­pen­dence, a move that proved incred­i­bly suc­cess­ful for Montenegro’s econ­omy, and is now set to do the same for Kosovo’s with talk of NATO mem­ber­ship already on the cards.

Albania’s gov­ern­ment is keen to forge strong ties with its neigh­bours it seems, and this is likely to be eco­nom­i­cally ben­e­fi­cial to all par­ties who take part, as well as open­ing up new areas of Alba­nia, and pos­si­bly neigh­bour­ing coun­tries to inter­na­tional prop­erty investors.

This new envi­ron­ment of inte­gra­tion is already begin­ning to form: A €600m ($932m) project to upgrade the road from the port of Dur­res on the Adri­atic to the bor­der with Kosovo under­scores the new rela­tion­ship. The Enka group of Turkey and Bech­tel of the US are build­ing a 70km sec­tion of high­way, widen­ing the exist­ing road and forg­ing a series of tun­nels through the moun­tains. The new roads will make travel from Duress to the Koso­var cap­i­tal Pristina pos­si­ble in 3 hours, a jour­ney that cur­rently takes closer to 10 hours.

This will open up vir­gin and cur­rently impov­er­ished parts of north­ern Alba­nia to prop­erty devel­op­ment and tourism, as well as giv­ing Kosovo, and hope­fully Ser­bia even­tu­ally, eas­ier access to export from Albania’s largest port at Duress.

Between the new road and the cur­rent expan­sion of the Duress port thanks to another mas­sive loan from the Euro­pean Bank for Recon­struc­tion and Devel­op­ment, there are cur­rently a lot of rea­sons to be very hope­ful of a bright eco­nomic future for Alba­nia and East­ern Europe as a whole.

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7Jul/090

Canada Property Market is a safe investment

The Canada prop­erty mar­ket is cur­rently one of the strongest in the world; across the board Canada prop­erty prices have been ris­ing by more than 10% for the past few years, a level almost unheard of in estab­lished mar­kets like Canada. Most peo­ple expect the Canada prop­erty mar­ket to behave like the U.S., which is cur­rently in the throes of what they call a “price cor­rec­tion”, but what means a sharp-drop in house prices that were pre­vi­ously ris­ing rapidly.

They aren’t all that wrong: before the U.S. real estate mar­ket began to fall, the Cana­dian prop­erty mar­ket was see­ing sim­i­lar lev­els of growth to the U.S.. The dif­fer­ence is, the growth of Canada prop­erty prices was on a more sta­ble foot­ing, i.e. prop­erty prices were ris­ing because of demand, not because of bad agents inflat­ing val­ues to higher than they should have been. The result is that now, the Canada prop­erty mar­ket is very dif­fer­ent to the U.S. in that prices con­tinue to rise at the same above aver­age but sus­tain­able rate.

Invest­ment Prop­erty in Canada:

Canada is deservedly among the most pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tions in the world to make a prop­erty invest­ment. It is world renowned for its gor­geous land­scapes and spec­tac­u­lar rare wildlife, true wilder­ness, griz­zly bears, salmon fish­ing, and really get­ting back to your roots, not to men­tion ski­ing in places like Mt Trem­blant, and soak­ing up the ambiance of Montreal.

This gives it fan­tas­tic appeal with tourists, and makes a prop­erty invest­ment in Canada a shrewd move. Canada’s Toronto is one of the only places in the world where rental yields rise in line with prop­erty size, and Canada is the only estab­lished mar­ket in the world that has aver­age rental yields of around 8%. Despite its pop­u­lar­ity and sus­tain­able growth, you can still find a bar­gain invest­ment prop­erty in Canada, in fact it is more of a strug­gle to find rea­sons not to invest in a Canada property.

Our Canada Property:

Speak­ing of bar­gain Canada prop­erty, you won’t find a bet­ter deal than our Rouge River land plots. The Rouge River resort has been voted the best resort in Que­bec 8 years run­ning. 100 miles of the Rouge River runs through the resort, with fan­tas­tic trout fish­ing, kayak­ing, canoe­ing and white water raft­ing. A 100 mile bicy­cle track weaves through the for­est along the river bank, and the woods are full of the afore­men­tioned wild-life. In win­ter the bicy­cle track becomes a cross coun­try ski and ski­doo trail.

The one acre Rouge River plots are half the price of smaller plots nearby, with pre-designed log-cabins wait­ing to be built. All the above and their price put these up with the best hol­i­day home invest­ment prop­erty on the global market.

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7Jul/090

Buying Abroad? Pick Your Spot and Time Carefully – in Canada that means Magnificent Montreal and Now

Last year DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd iden­ti­fied Mon­treal as a top res­i­den­tial real estate invest­ment region wor­thy of inclu­sion in their over­seas prop­erty portfolio.

Since then we have seen prop­erty prices in gen­eral suf­fer large falls, and this has made the care­ful selec­tion of loca­tion even more vital for investors. No longer can a care­less prop­erty pur­chase be ame­lio­rated by a ris­ing mar­ket. Indeed the great­est losses are occur­ring where intrin­sic value was lacking.

Prop­er­ty­Wire, a pre­mier prop­erty news ser­vice, has just released this assess­ment of the cur­rent state of the mar­ket in Canada, and it broadly reflects the global picture.

“Cana­dian home prices fell 5.8% in March from the same month a year ear­lier, a faster pace of decline than in Feb­ru­ary, accord­ing to the lat­est pub­lished fig­ures from the Teranet-National Bank National Com­pos­ite House Price Index. It also shows that prices were down 8.5% nation­ally from the peak in August last year.

“West­ern Cana­dian home prices were hardest-hit, with Van­cou­ver lead­ing with a 9.6% decline in March from a year ear­lier, while Cal­gary saw prices fall 8.4%, and Toronto saw a 6.9% slide.”

Even worse, losses for UK prop­erty investors in most of Canada are being exac­er­bated by the stronger £, which has of late been gain­ing in value against the Cana­dian $. How­ever, that cur­rency trend is set to reverse, and we expect after the sum­mer the Cana­dian $ will begin appre­ci­ate again, being as it is backed by the rich nat­ural resources of that coun­try and its hard­work­ing and youth­ful population.

Mean­while, only two areas of Canada have bucked the down­ward trend, and guess where the high­est gains are being recorded right now?

“Mon­treal and Ottawa bucked the trend in March with prop­erty prices ris­ing 2.9% and 1%, respectively.”

DSR Asset Man­age­ment see Mon­treal real estate prices con­tin­u­ing to rise, espe­cially in £ terms, mak­ing Mon­treal a par­tic­u­larly appeal­ing choice for UK investors look­ing for wealth preser­va­tion, cap­i­tal growth and high poten­tial rental yields from over­seas property.

Charle­magne is the native home­town of famous Cana­dian singer Celine Dion, only a bridge away from Mon­treal city. The Manors is a pres­ti­gious con­do­minium devel­op­ment in Charle­magne, built and designed to the high­est spec­i­fi­ca­tion. It is strate­gi­cally posi­tioned at the bor­der of Ter­re­bonne and Repentigny, 2 of the fastest grow­ing cities on the east shore of Mon­treal. DSR has apart­ments in The Manors avail­able now from £125,000 — £130,000.

Slightly cheaper are the ‘Condo in the Park’ apart­ments in Repentigny itself, priced £95,000 — £100,000. David Red­fern said “This project is one of the last phases of a major devel­op­ment called “Val­mont sur Parc” that has start more than 10 years ago, where more than 500 units have been sold so far, from apart­ment to cosy detached houses. Repentigny is a big city with all the same facil­i­ties and ser­vices than big city like Montreal.”

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd has iden­ti­fied global regions with high growth and income poten­tial, and holds an exclu­sive inven­tory of competitively–priced superior-quality prop­erty for sale in hand-picked and unique loca­tions, rang­ing from lux­u­ri­ous city apart­ments to coastal build­ing plots and eco houses. You can find more infor­ma­tion about our invest­ment prop­er­ties in Canada.

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7Jul/090

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This morn­ing on BBC Five Live radio the hot topic of con­ver­sa­tion was money flood­ing back into invest­ment funds, as investors flee the derisory 0.5% inter­est rates cur­rently paid on bank deposits.

“Pri­vate investors are pil­ing back into invest­ment funds accord­ing to fig­ures from the Invest­ment Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion.” is the synopsis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/money — scroll to July 2nd 2009

The MP3 of the pro­gramme is avail­able at this link -

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/money/money_20090702-0624a.mp3

The pro­gramme also reaf­firms what DSR have been say­ing for some time — equi­ties are a lead­ing indi­ca­tor of the prop­erty mar­ket. Inter­est­ingly the IMA rep­re­sen­ta­tive said that the new trend was not to focus on the UK alone, but that major inter­est is being shown in growth oppor­tu­ni­ties worldwide.

When the prop­erty mar­ket belat­edly wakes up to the record surge in equi­ties that has taken place in the past quar­ter – 3 months in which the UK hous­ing mar­ket price has grown by a mere 0.9% accord­ing to Hal­i­fax – DSR expects a sim­i­lar rush into over­seas prop­erty invest­ment. In fact they are begin­ning to see this now in the areas they have iden­ti­fied as being the new emerg­ing hot spots in the world.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd say they are poised to be in exactly the right place and right time – offer­ing investors the oppor­tu­nity to acquire qual­ity real estate in prime global loca­tions just as demand for global returns explodes.

“Asset man­age­ment is not just about acquir­ing rare high value beach or city prop­erty in Aus­tralia, Cam­bo­dia , Thai­land and other growth areas,” said DSR’s David Redfern.

“The invest­ment vehi­cles avail­able include full man­age­ment of over­seas prop­erty to gen­er­ate strong rental yields. Such an arrange­ment not only pro­duces an ongo­ing return on invest­ment, it also pays for main­te­nance and upkeep of the prop­erty, and means that secu­rity issues are not a con­cern. In addi­tion, hav­ing a prop­erty in use through­out the year makes good use of scarce resources and is energy effi­cient,” he added.

In effect, mak­ing a con­sid­ered invest­ment in over­seas prop­erty with rental income – a de-luxe buy-to-let – need require no more has­sle than invest­ing in a fund. The under­ly­ing aims are the same – cap­i­tal growth and income – and with an estab­lished lead­ing firm like DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd tak­ing care of the legal and finan­cial con­cerns that come with invest­ing abroad, select­ing the best man­agers and invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties for you, the ‘front end’ for the investor need be no more time-consuming or problematic.

Of course there are dif­fer­ences with fund invest­ment too – with prop­erty your cap­i­tal asset is allo­cated to you, not pooled, and should you require to sell the prop­erty in the future there is likely to be a time lag while it is advertised.

But there are also mas­sive advan­tages over the stan­dard buy-to-let schemes so pop­u­lar in the UK over the past decade. You will never have prob­lem­atic sit­ting ten­ants but only hol­i­day guests, the prop­erty will main­tained for you in pris­tine con­di­tion, and of course you can enjoy your asset to the full while on vacation.

Rental income comes with a guar­an­tee in many cases, a barom­e­ter of the resort management’s con­fi­dence in the rental mar­ket, since low occu­pancy would put a strain on their prof­its. In a sense, when it comes to rental income, investors enter into a profit shar­ing scheme, usu­ally set at 50:50 or 60:40 in their favour, a pow­er­ful incen­tive towards excel­lent returns.

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7Jul/090

Echo Beach Plots in Australia – a High Reward/Low Risk Investment Strategy

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Echo Beach Plots in Aus­tralia – a High Reward/Low Risk Invest­ment Strat­egy.
David Airey, pres­i­dent of the Real Estate Insti­tute of Aus­tralia said last week “I’ve been des­per­ately try­ing not to call it but I think we’ve seen the bot­tom and we’re see­ing investors com­ing back into the market….

“…. there’s been an enor­mous change in con­sumer sen­ti­ment and one pos­i­tive sign after another….”

Aus­tralia’s lead­ing provider of indus­try research, analy­sis and fore­cast­ing ser­vices agrees.

“From here, recov­ery in hous­ing demand is expected to broaden and deepen,” opined Angie Zigo­ma­nis of BIS Shrap­nel, “…By the end of 2009, strong turnover of the most afford­able prop­er­ties will be flow­ing through into the bulk of house­holds posi­tioned towards the mid­dle of the market…’

But what hap­pens if the experts are proved wrong?

Well the answer could be – don’t buy a house yet – but grab a piece of desir­able land. After all, as Mark Twain observed, they are not mak­ing any more of it. For a tiny frac­tion of the cost of a fin­ished home you could buy a prime beach­front plot. If real estate prices defy the experts and fall, then your loss is strictly lim­ited, but if prices rise as pre­dicted, your gain will be magnified.

The pic­turesque sea­side town of Beach­port is cen­trally located on the world famous Lime­stone Coast, just over an hour’s drive from Mount Gam­bier, the second-largest city in South Aus­tralia. Tens of thou­sands of tourists come every year to enjoy its relaxed atmos­phere and stun­ning coast­line, to sun them­selves or walk on wide stretches of beach. The clear, shel­tered waters of Riv­oli Bay are per­fect for all denom­i­na­tions of water sports.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd are offer­ing beach­front and direct ocean view plots for sale in Beach­port Aus­tralia. Echo Beach is a unique devel­op­ment of 65 acres, with plots from 500 sq m start­ing from as low as £15,000 and ris­ing to £30,000. The land comes com­plete with plan­ning approval, and is of strictly lim­ited avail­abil­ity, which is an his­toric dri­ver of price appre­ci­a­tion. Inde­pen­dent esti­mates of likely cap­i­tal growth range from 10–15% per annum if things stay as they are

But that is just the bot­tom line.

If the enhanced plan­ning cur­rently being actively sought by the devel­op­ers of Echo Beach for expanded ameni­ties is approved — and there is every like­li­hood that it will be – investors should see an addi­tional 5–10 times cap­i­tal growth, again based on inde­pen­dent mar­ket esti­mates. That is a quite stag­ger­ing rate of return, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the global eco­nomic down­turn. You would be pushed to get this from invest­ing in a fluke penny stock, yet here you have a real­is­tic chance of a prop­erty ten-bagger from a secure invest­ment in land.

For more infor­ma­tion about this unique invest­ment visit www.davidstanleyredfern.com

For more info­ma­tion about Buy­ing Prop­erty in Australia

About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR, giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR. edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is rep­re­sented by search engine mar­ket­ing agency Foot­prints SEO. Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

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7Jul/090

Property Investment with Nonlinear Capital Growth Potential Echo Beach Land Plots in South Australia

Echo+Beach6 Property Investment with Nonlinear Capital Growth Potential Echo Beach Land Plots in South AustraliaThe name Echo Beach may jolt some music lovers’ mem­o­ries. In Aus­tralia a beach of the same name has now become the loca­tion of a fan­tas­tic invest­ment oppor­tu­nity for investors look­ing for secure cap­i­tal growth together with the pos­si­bil­ity of a non­lin­ear gain.

A recent inde­pen­dent analy­sis Echo Beach appraised it thus:

“Based on expe­ri­ence and research we con­ser­v­a­tively esti­mate that cap­i­tal growth for this coastal prop­erty with­out plan­ning per­mis­sion would range from 10–15 per­cent per annum.”

The invest­ment is struc­tured so that, while rea­son­able gains are vir­tu­ally guar­an­teed, spec­tac­u­lar gains are a real pos­si­bil­ity. This is because plan­ning per­mis­sion is being sought by the expe­ri­enced project team, lead by Alex Paior and Grant Chap­man, for the con­struc­tion of low-rise envi­ron­men­tally sen­si­tive eco homes on Echo Beach.

Inter­est­ing to poten­tial land buy­ers will be the fol­low­ing state­ment from the local coun­cil, who have indi­cated that they are “…very sup­port­ive of devel­op­ment that is con­sis­tent with the nat­ural envi­ron­ment and seeks to pre­serve nat­ural veg­e­ta­tion, par­tic­u­larly in Coastal areas. The coun­cil are will­ing to work with you on this project to pro­duce an out­come that best sat­is­fies all par­ties involved.”

If and when the go-ahead for this delight­ful landscape-friendly ven­ture gets the go ahead, investors should be sit­ting on an addi­tional 500–1,000% increase in the value of their plots, again based on an inde­pen­dent finan­cial assessment.

A nom­i­nal annual man­age­ment fee will be payable to the devel­op­ment team while they nego­ti­ate a deal to develop the land. Five years is the time set aside for this, after which in the event no deal can be reached, the land will be re-sold. By then it is expected that the value of the land will have increased by 50–100%.

The devel­op­ers will retain a size­able % of the land for them­selves, and along with indi­vid­ual investors, will ben­e­fit for the mas­sive jump in value that comes with the grant­ing of enhanced plan­ning con­sent. There­fore the devel­op­ers inter­est will be pre­cisely aligned with that of pri­vate buy­ers of Echo Beach.

Echo Beach is located in the pic­turesque sea­side town of Beach­port, on the world famous, fossil-rich Lime­stone Coast, just over an hour’s drive from Mount Gam­bier, the second-largest city in South Aus­tralia. Tens of thou­sands of tourists come every year to enjoy its relaxed atmos­phere and stun­ning coastline.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd are now offer­ing Echo Beach beach­front and direct ocean view land in a novel joint pur­chase agree­ment involv­ing 65 acres of prime beach land, with indi­vid­ual plots avail­able from 500 sq m upwards, start­ing from £15,000 and ris­ing to £30,000.

There are a strictly lim­ited num­ber of plots available.

For more infor­ma­tion about Echo Beach and other selected prop­er­ties world-wide call Rebecca Sale on 0115 871 4594 or visit the DSR website.

About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an estab­lished lead­ing over­seas prop­erty spe­cial­ist, work­ing closely with devel­op­ers in many coun­tries to pro­vide an exclu­sive turnkey ser­vice for the dis­cern­ing investor.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

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7Jul/090

Beautiful Beach Land for Sale Echo Beach Beachport South Australia.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd wants to broaden your invest­ment hori­zons with the offer of an excep­tional oppor­tu­nity to buy prime beach plots in South Aus­tralia at the site known as Echo Beach. Ide­ally sit­u­ated within the pic­turesque and upmar­ket town of Beach­port, the rea­son these plots are such a bar­gain is because the devel­op­ers have not com­pleted their eco-friendly plan­ning con­sul­ta­tion with the local coun­cil, and are now look­ing to share in future asset growth in return for hard cash to finance com­ple­tion of the approval process.

The coun­cil have been mak­ing encour­ag­ing noises about seek­ing to work with the estab­lished man­age­ment team to pro­duce a sat­is­fac­tory and eco-friendly devel­op­ment of the area. They said they were “…very sup­port­ive of devel­op­ment that is con­sis­tent with the nat­ural envi­ron­ment and seeks to pre­serve nat­ural veg­e­ta­tion, par­tic­u­larly in Coastal areas. The coun­cil are will­ing to work with you on this project to pro­duce an out­come that best sat­is­fies all par­ties involved.”

If, how­ever, full plan­ning per­mis­sion is given, and there is every indi­ca­tion it will be, the value of the land will jump 5–10 times from an inde­pen­dent assess­ment, and investors and devel­op­ers alike will share in this jack­pot. Enhanced plan­ning is cur­rently being sought by the devel­op­ers to build eco homes on the site.

Echo Beach is located in the pic­turesque sea­side town of Beach­port, on the world famous, fossil-rich Lime­stone Coast, just over an hour’s drive from Mount Gam­bier, the second-largest city in South Aus­tralia. Tens of thou­sands of tourists come every year to enjoy its relaxed atmos­phere and stun­ning coastline.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd are offer­ing Echo Beach beach­front and direct ocean view land in this unique devel­op­ment of 65 acres, with plots from 500 sq m upwards, start­ing from £15,000 and ris­ing to £30,000.

For more infor­ma­tion about Echo Beach and other exquis­ite invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties world-wide call Rebecca Sale on 0115 871 4594 or visit the DSR web­site which has a select inter­na­tional land port­fo­lio of prop­er­ties in some of the best regions around the globe for growth, income and qual­ity of life.

About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd is an estab­lished lead­ing over­seas prop­erty spe­cial­ist, work­ing closely with devel­op­ers in many coun­tries to pro­vide an exclu­sive turnkey ser­vice for the dis­cern­ing investor. DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

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7Jul/090

Eastern Europe’s Bright Economic Future

Alba­nia, with EU help is mak­ing moves toward spread­ing afflu­ence out from the cap­i­tal and other eco­nom­i­cally strong areas to some of the more impov­er­ished areas in the coun­try. But the moves Alba­nia is mak­ing are set to make a big dif­fer­ence to some of Albania’s neigh­bours, spread­ing afflu­ence through­out the region.

For a start Kosovo has just declared its inde­pen­dence, a move that proved incred­i­bly suc­cess­ful for Montenegro’s econ­omy, and is now set to do the same for Kosovo’s with talk of NATO mem­ber­ship already on the cards.

Albania’s gov­ern­ment is keen to forge strong ties with its neigh­bours it seems, and this is likely to be eco­nom­i­cally ben­e­fi­cial to all par­ties who take part, as well as open­ing up new areas of Alba­nia, and pos­si­bly neigh­bour­ing coun­tries to inter­na­tional prop­erty investors.

This new envi­ron­ment of inte­gra­tion is already begin­ning to form: A €600m ($932m) project to upgrade the road from the port of Dur­res on the Adri­atic to the bor­der with Kosovo under­scores the new rela­tion­ship. The Enka group of Turkey and Bech­tel of the US are build­ing a 70km sec­tion of high­way, widen­ing the exist­ing road and forg­ing a series of tun­nels through the moun­tains. The new roads will make travel from Duress to the Koso­var cap­i­tal Pristina pos­si­ble in 3 hours, a jour­ney that cur­rently takes closer to 10 hours.

This will open up vir­gin and cur­rently impov­er­ished parts of north­ern Alba­nia to prop­erty devel­op­ment and tourism, as well as giv­ing Kosovo, and hope­fully Ser­bia even­tu­ally, eas­ier access to export from Albania’s largest port at Duress.

Between the new road and the cur­rent expan­sion of the Duress port thanks to another mas­sive loan from the Euro­pean Bank for Recon­struc­tion and Devel­op­ment, there are cur­rently a lot of rea­sons to be very hope­ful of a bright eco­nomic future for Alba­nia and East­ern Europe as a whole.

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7Jul/090

DSR Take the Good and Leave the Bad" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/asias-branded-condotels-dsr-take-the-good-and-leave-the-bad-2/" rel="bookmark">Asia’s Branded Condotels: DSR Take the Good and Leave the Bad

A new trend is cur­rently sweep­ing Asia’s prop­erty invest­ment scene: branded condo-hotels, where investors are pay­ing more than the mar­ket value for the safety and mar­ket­ing power of global cor­po­ra­tion brand­ing. DSR have not been left behind, hav­ing just added two such devel­op­ments in the Philip­pines to their books, but with one key dif­fer­ence, the prop­er­ties are not priced above their mar­ket value.

The Ultima Res­i­den­cies Ramos Tower offers fully ser­viced, and fully man­aged stu­dio apart­ments from just £15,000 — clearly not above mar­ket value given their loca­tion amid the Cebu real estate boom. In typ­i­cal Con­do­tel style, own­ers can choose to take the rental guar­an­tee, in which their condo becomes part of the hotel, and part of the income pool­ing scheme. Par­tic­i­pants get 30 days free use of their condo and are still expected to receive a 12% rental yield, based on 60% occu­pancy of the remain­ing 335 days.

The sec­ond Con­do­tel devel­op­ment added to the DSR port­fo­lio is on the lush trop­i­cal island of Bora­cay. Near the vibrant sta­tion 2, in close prox­im­ity to all the bars, nightspots and other ameni­ties, as well as 2 beaches and the police sta­tion, the Crown Regency resort offers stu­dio apart­ments from £51,000.

Liam Bai­ley, head of inter­na­tional research for DSR explained why the new Con­do­tels are becom­ing so popular:

“The new wave of Con­do­tel pop­u­lar­ity sweep­ing Asia is really no sur­prise. Many of today’s prop­erty investors are young peo­ple mak­ing hol­i­day home invest­ments, branded Con­do­tels offer the per­fect has­sle free hol­i­day home investment.”

“There is also absolutely no risk with the invest­ments,” he con­tin­ued “because the size of the brand you are buy­ing into gives secu­rity with regards that the build­ing will def­i­nitely be com­pleted, while the level of research that they will have done into the mar­ket before decid­ing to build there means that buy­ers can bank on them achiev­ing high occu­pancy, and thus decent rental yields for them.

“There is also no dan­ger of them los­ing their money, because as part of the agree­ment, you can sell back to the hotel after an agreed period for the price you paid, or let them put it on the open mar­ket, or do the lat­ter your­self. So, if the prop­erty has grown in value, you sell and col­lect the profit, but if the resale mar­ket has dropped you can take out the money you put in and live to fight another day.”

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6Jul/090

Asia Investors Market Report

Peo­ple who read the pages of the David Stan­ley Red­fern site will know that we don’t use superla­tives very often, because peo­ple tend to think, they are agents, they are going to say that, but when it comes to the Philip­pines cap­i­tal Manila I’m afraid it’s unavoid­able. There are a few cities in the world that stand out as hav­ing absolutely incred­i­ble poten­tial for prof­itabil­ity and Manila is most def­i­nitely one of them.

Asia as a region is the expert’s favourite to enjoy the strongest and most sus­tain­able growth trends in the com­ing years. The Philip­pines and Manila were worst affected by Asia’s finan­cial cri­sis a few years ago, and now that Asia’s econ­omy has bounced back, Manila being worst affected has become a def­i­nite advantage.

As I said Asia is cur­rently sym­bolic of eco­nomic growth, and many global cor­po­ra­tions, from the major banks and finan­cial insti­tu­tions to retail out­lets rely on Asia for a large por­tion of their busi­ness. More and more it is becom­ing nec­es­sary for these cor­po­ra­tions to set up an Asian hub or branch for the Asian divi­sion of their busi­ness, in other cases it is not nec­es­sary but they do so out of choice.

Either way, but increas­ingly when doing it through choice they are look­ing for the cheap­est coun­try and city to set up in, from pay­ing the least amount for the land to build their busi­ness on, or a build­ing to ren­o­vate, to the low­est quotes for build­ing, to the work­force they need for the low­est wage budget.

For retail chains or com­pa­nies set­ting up in Asia with a view to sell­ing there are look­ing for all the above, plus the sub­stan­tial like­li­hood of eco­nomic growth in the area that will pro­pel their sales as it goes.

Manila ticks all the right boxes, with yearly GDP growth strong at 5% for a few years now, ris­ing to 7% last year and pre­dicted to grow by at least an addi­tional 1% per year for the next two years. With all the new busi­nesses com­ing into Manila and for­eign invest­ment the city is becom­ing more afflu­ent and the gov­ern­ment is able to divert more into fur­ther devel­op­ing the country.

Manila and the Philip­pines still have their prob­lems, the biggest being high poverty rates and dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth issues, but as prop­erty investors all we can hope is that the small part we are play­ing in devel­op­ing the econ­omy in Manila helps the devel­op­ment spread through­out the Philip­pines and its population.

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6Jul/090

Overseas Property News — Cayman Islands

For a trop­i­cal get­away there could be no place more appeal­ing than the beau­ti­ful Cay­man Islands which are sit­u­ated in the West­ern Caribbean Sea. The idyl­lic chain of three islands emerge from the clear waters as peaks of one under­sea ridge as Grand Cay­man, Cay­man Brac and the small­est Lit­tle Cay­man. The Cayman’s ben­e­fit from a thriv­ing local econ­omy with great trans­port links through eas­ily acces­si­ble sea and air ports. Invest­ment in plots here holds great poten­tial for an entic­ing hol­i­day home as well as an increas­ingly pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tion for the tourist rental market.

The Cay­man Islands are highly regarded as one of the best loca­tions for scuba div­ing in the world due to its crys­tal waters and abun­dant marine life, with one of the more unusual attrac­tions being a 330ft decom­mis­sioned Soviet ves­sel which is sub­merged off the coast of Cay­man Brac and serves as an arti­fi­cial reef and fas­ci­nat­ing dive site. Other attrac­tions include Grand Cayman’s world famous seven mile beach, the fes­tiv­ity of the bian­nual Island Games, and for some­thing a lit­tle more serene, the miles of nature trails that mean­der across the islands encom­pass­ing some of the won­der­fully trop­i­cal nature reser­va­tions. One such area is the Brac Par­rot Reserve which is the only place in the world where you can catch a glimpse of the unique Cay­man Brac Parrot.

Although the islands are a British over­seas ter­ri­tory, they still retain their tra­di­tional and easy-going cul­ture, and in fact Cay­ma­ni­ans enjoy the high­est stan­dard of liv­ing in the entire Caribbean. This is mainly due to the boom in tourism, account­ing for up to 75% of the annual Gross Domes­tic Prod­uct, but the Cay­mans also main­tain a thriv­ing finan­cial ser­vices indus­try which is now the fifth largest bank­ing cen­tre, and con­se­quently one of the rich­est islands in the world. The islands print their own cur­rency, this is fixed to the US Dol­lar which is also accepted every­where across the islands. There are air­ports on each of the islands, the biggest being the inter­na­tional air­port on Grand Cay­man which con­nects many inter­na­tional des­ti­na­tions includ­ing Lon­don, Miami and Jamaica.

In addi­tion there is also Cay­man Air­ways pro­vid­ing a domes­tic ser­vice between Cay­man Brac and Lit­tle Cay­man. Due to its global appeal with vis­i­tors arriv­ing from all over Europe, Amer­ica and the sur­round­ing Caribbean, the Cay­man Islands present a haven for trop­i­cal adven­ture and relax­ation. As an invest­ment, the land plots avail­able offer the unique oppor­tu­nity to build your own pala­tial prop­erty in a trop­i­cal paradise.

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16Feb/090

Finland’s Lapland Property: Levi Yourself Breathless

The Aurora Sky hotel apart­ment com­plex in the win­ter — and sum­mer — won­der­land of Levi has just become an even hot­ter invest­ment prop­erty. Expected rental yields on the devel­op­ment have always been 8–12%, but the new ski-lift that has been approved for build­ing right oppo­site the main entrance will increase rental yields by mak­ing it a ski-in ski-out hotel. 

With up to 90% finance avail­able and such gains expected, as well as an optional 6% guar­an­teed rental yield for the first five years or rental man­age­ment for a 10% fee, there is no doubt that Aurora Sky apart­ments are excel­lent invest­ment prop­er­ties, but not enough is said about just how won­der­ful they are as hol­i­day homes. 

Levi is a vast expanse of beau­ti­ful scenery, with only the occa­sional row of houses mak­ing a dent in the gor­geous land­scape, of course there’s the well equipped Levi ski-resort, and the breath­tak­ing moun­tain reach­ing up toward the sky from it, but apart from that it is largely unspoiled by mod­ern development. 

The Levi res­i­den­tial prop­erty devel­op­ment, includ­ing the Aurora Sky apart­ment hotel is going to be a self-contained hol­i­day vil­lage just yards from one of the Levi ski-resort’s down­hill slopes, includ­ing shops where you can pur­chase the day to day essen­tials, as well as designer gear and ski­ing equip­ment — the lat­ter can also be hired from the resort. 

But ski­ing is not the only thing that draws tourists to Levi; there are a whole host of other pop­u­lar activ­i­ties in sum­mer and win­ter including: 

clip image001 Finland's Lapland Property: Levi Yourself Breathless       Husky dog-pulled-sled rides

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clip image001 Finland's Lapland Property: Levi Yourself Breathless       Rein­deer rides (at Christmas)

clip image001 Finland's Lapland Property: Levi Yourself Breathless       Fish­ing (ice-fishing in win­ter) in the nearby Levi lake

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clip image001 Finland's Lapland Property: Levi Yourself Breathless       Admir­ing the North­ern lights tourist attraction 

On top of all that and just being in amidst such beauty and clean fresh air, being in the home of Santa Claus is a ben­e­fit in itself for fam­i­lies with chil­dren. Only after you have con­sid­ered all its beauty should you con­sider buy­ing an Aurora Sky apart­ment as an invest­ment. When you do the fact that your money is held in a gov­ern­ment ordered escrow until you get the keys is also a ben­e­fit, because if any­thing stops the devel­op­ment, or you just change your mind you can get your money back minus a small admin­is­tra­tion fee. 

Find out more about Fin­land prop­erty 

About David Stan­ley Redfern

David Stan­ley Red­fern is one of the U.K.‘s lead­ing over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ists. The rea­sons for this are an incom­pa­ra­ble range of inter­na­tional prop­er­ties span­ning 40 des­ti­na­tions world­wide, and unri­valled cus­tomer care, which lasts long after the pur­chase has been com­pleted. Expe­ri­enced, pro­fes­sional staff and mem­ber­ship to the over­seas prop­erty market’s reg­u­la­tory body, as well as their strin­gent due dili­gence pro­ce­dures gives buy­ers the con­fi­dence that any pur­chase with David Stan­ley Red­fern is a safe one.

Media enquiries should be directed at media@davidstanleyredfern.com.

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13Jul/080

IV" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/david-stanley-redfern-reveal-investment-hotspots-part-iv/" rel="bookmark">David Stanley Redfern Reveal Investment Hotspots Part IV

This is the final part of the rev­e­la­tion of David Stan­ley Red­fern research into global prop­erty mar­kets. This will fol­low on from part III which revealed the top 2 long-term des­ti­na­tions, by reveal­ing places 3rd-5th. You can read ear­lier parts of the series at the prop­erty invest­ment research arti­cles sec­tion of the DSR site.

3 — Montenegro:

Mon­tene­gro was one of the top tourism des­ti­na­tions dur­ing the 1980s, and since it split from Ser­bia and 2006, receiv­ing a lit­tle help from fea­tur­ing in the James Bond Casino Royale block­buster shortly after, Montenegro’s mas­sively ris­ing tourism puts it on course to regain its promi­nent posi­tion as a top tourism des­ti­na­tion. Croatia’s Mediter­ranean cli­mate com­bined with its gor­geous beaches, and beau­ti­ful coun­try­side made it a mas­sively pop­u­lar tourism des­ti­na­tion, and prop­erty val­ues quickly tripled in the space of 3–5 years. Mon­tene­gro has all the same strengths, and as it sees a sim­i­larly mas­sive growth in tourism as it becomes the next hotspot for a cheap Mediter­ranean hol­i­day, the indi­ca­tions are there for mas­sive appre­ci­a­tion of Mon­tene­gro prop­erty prices. It is only in the long-term chart because its path to EU entry secures strong eco­nomic growth over the long-term.

4 — America:

This might seem like a strange one in the cur­rent cli­mate, but you sim­ply can’t dis­count the mas­sive eco­nomic machine that is the United States of Amer­ica. Prop­erty val­ues and the weak dol­lar make buy­ing an Amer­i­can prop­erty a lot more afford­able than it has been for a few years. And America’s inte­gral part in the global-economic infra­struc­ture means it is almost inevitable that the Amer­i­can prop­erty mar­ket will bounce back, and then peo­ple who have taken advan­tage of the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion will be in for great prof­its. This will hap­pen over the short-term and has even begun in some states, but it’s being dif­fi­cult to pre­dict accu­rately means any­one invest­ing in US prop­erty should do so with the inten­tion that there might be a sub­stan­tial wait and even a drop in prices before they make any real gains, but when the recov­ery begins the gains are likely to be worth the wait.

5 — Italy:

Despite global tur­moil the large major­ity of Ital­ian prop­erty mar­kets con­tinue to remain largely sta­ble, and many new areas are emerg­ing and are cur­rently strong prop­erty value growth. Italy will always be one of the most pop­u­lar tourism des­ti­na­tions in the world, and the gov­ern­ments respon­si­ble atti­tude towards con­serv­ing its beauty by pre­vent­ing over-development, ensures demand remains high for rental accom­mo­da­tion, off-plan and resale prop­er­ties. This means that an Ital­ian prop­erty invest­ment is always going to be a safe one that will show solid and sus­tained growth over the long-term.

Find out more about the best prop­erty invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties around the world.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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12Jul/080

2007 a Record high for Global property investment

Despite the global credit crunch, 2007 was a record high for global prop­erty invest­ment, with cross-border flows ris­ing steeply and more money cross­ing between the main regions of Europe, Asia and the Americas.

And although the credit crunch took its toll in North Amer­ica and Europe, push­ing down global trans­ac­tion value by 8 per­cent in the sec­ond half of 2007, invest­ment in Asia surged 22 per­cent in the last six months of 2007.

As over­seas invest­ments spe­cial­ists, David Stan­ley Red­fern have a wide and far-reaching Asian portfolio.

Coun­tries on their books include the emerg­ing economies of the Philip­pines and Cam­bo­dia, as well as more mature mar­kets such as Malaysia, Thai­land and India.

Philip­pines prop­erty is expected to grow in value by no less than 24% for the next five years and pos­si­bly even more in the next 2–3 years.

Cam­bo­dia invest­ment prop­erty is a hot favourite with peo­ple eye­ing a short-term invest­ment; prop­erty is expected to grow in value by about 25% per year and Cam­bo­dian prop­erty achieves rental yields of at least 10% per year.

Malaysian prop­erty should grow by no less than 20% per year over the com­ing years, and pos­si­bly by as much as 25 per­cent. Prop­erty attracts rental yields of 8–10% in Kuala Lumpur, and pos­si­bly even higher on resort prop­erty in Sabah.

Thai­land invest­ment prop­erty is now favoured by those in the mar­ket for a long-term, secure invest­ment prop­erty, that won’t grow in value by any spec­tac­u­lar yearly rate, but will con­tinue to grow sus­tain­ably over the next ten to twenty years. Thai­land prop­erty prices grow by between 5 and 10 per­cent per year.

The India prop­erty mar­ket is one of the most vibrant in the world. From low priced begin­nings, some Indian prop­erty is now among the most expen­sive in the world; Mum­bai is among the top 5 most expen­sive cities. But buy­ing Indian prop­erty in some of its new emerg­ing mar­kets is an excel­lent invest­ment, espe­cially in and around devel­op­ing com­merce hubs and Spe­cial Eco­nomic Zones which are being assisted by the gov­ern­ment and where prop­erty prices are still low. Prop­erty in these areas, like Ban­ga­lore and Rudra­pur, should see spec­tac­u­lar growth, with con­ser­v­a­tive esti­mates at 30 per­cent. Rental yields for high qual­ity off-plan apart­ments in these areas will be any­where from 8–10%, pos­si­bly as much as 12% as demand reaches its peak, and depend­ing on ini­tial rates.

Find out more about invest­ment prop­erty.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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7Jul/080

Investment Potential Heats Up in Dominican Republic

Vis­i­tor num­bers to the Domini­can Repub­lic grew by 84,000 in the first four months of 2008 com­pared to the same period last year. The total num­ber of vis­i­tors was 1.6million in four months – very impres­sive. Peo­ple who have long been avid lovers of the Domini­can Repub­lic referred to it as the Caribbean’s best kept secret, but the cat has been let out of the bag. The Domini­can Repub­lic is set to become a hugely pop­u­lar tourism des­ti­na­tion in the com­ing months and years.

Lit­tle won­der, the Domini­can Repub­lic has every­thing that any of the other mas­sively pop­u­lar islands like Bar­ba­dos has; white beaches, trop­i­cal cli­mate, warm crys­tal blue waters full of exotic sea life, and strik­ing moun­tain ranges, but its only just being dis­cov­ered makes it an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity for investors because prop­erty prices are far lower than on the likes of Barbados.

With tourism now grow­ing so mas­sively as the Domini­can Repub­lic moves over for its time in the spot­light, it is easy to pre­dict that prop­erty val­ues will quickly grow to the lev­els they are on other pop­u­lar Caribbean Islands.

That is a long way to grow, which offers an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity for hol­i­day home and pure investors. For instance David Stan­ley Red­fern have just added the Mar Del Ray devel­op­ment to their books, offer­ing 1 bed­room apart­ments with a 10% guar­an­teed rental yield in the first year, from just £36,750. Mar Del Ray is a com­plex of 1 and 2 bed­room apart­ments, town­houses and duplexes on a fully equipped resort near the coast and just 20mins from the cap­i­tal. Pent­house suites come with 45m2 roof ter­races, where a Jacuzzi can be installed.

Another Domini­can bar­gain from DSR is the Sosua Plaza, a resort devel­op­ment of resale stu­dio apart­ments, already at 80% occu­pancy, and priced from just under £24,000.

Find out more about Domini­can Repub­lic prop­erty and buy­ing prop­erty in Domini­can Repub­lic.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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5Jul/080

III" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/david-stanley-redfern-reveal-investment-hotspots-part-iii/" rel="bookmark">David Stanley Redfern Reveal Investment Hotspots Part III

This is the third part in a four part series, parts I and II revealed the top 5 loca­tions for short-term invest­ment based on David Stan­ley Red­fern research since the begin­ning of 2008, namely, the Philip­pines, Koh Samui (Thai island), Isla Mar­garita, Fiji and Cam­bo­dia, in that order, and this and part IIII will reveal the top 5 loca­tions for long term invest­ment based on the same research. Below you will find the top 2 loca­tions for prop­erty investment.

1: Alba­nia

Alba­nia is cur­rently the num­ber one loca­tion for long term prop­erty invest­ment because of its deter­mi­na­tion to become a full mem­ber of the EU in 2014, but more than that, the seem­ing deter­mi­na­tion of the EU to make sure Alba­nia suc­ceeds in gain­ing full mem­ber­ship. The most impor­tant rela­tion­ship between this deter­mi­na­tion and prop­erty invest­ment is the masses of money the EU, has, is and will pro­vide Alba­nia to develop eco­nomic com­pet­i­tive­ness, infra­struc­ture, and gen­eral prosperity.

Of course the EU would go to no such lengths if Alba­nia was not show­ing incred­i­ble poten­tial for eco­nomic growth in its own right, as more and more busi­nesses relo­cate to emerg­ing mar­kets, and buy their con­sum­ables from emerg­ing mar­ket traders in the mas­sive global cost-cutting exercises.

Eco­nomic growth, which is secure in Albania’s future until at least 2014, will gen­er­ate increas­ing afflu­ence within the pop­u­la­tion at large, liv­ing cost rises bring about wage rises, bring about liv­ing cost rises and so on, in a what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg sce­nario. And house prices will be pushed up in line with that peo­ple can afford.

All the above means that you can pre­dict sta­ble and sus­tained growth in Alba­nia prop­erty prices until at least 2014, at which point, the sta­ble democ­racy, and semi-established mar­ket of Alba­nia will have a fair chance of see­ing con­tin­ued prop­erty price growth from then on.

2: Panama

Since the Pana­man­ian gov­ern­ment announced plans to expand the Panama Canal in Octo­ber 2006, Panama’s eco­nomic growth has been off the charts, GDP growth around 11% year on year to be exact, prop­erty val­ues have been grow­ing at a recorded and sus­tained 25% per year over the same period.

Though Panama is cur­rently grow­ing into one of the world’s main finan­cial and bank­ing cen­tres, with good com­mu­ni­ca­tions and first world ameni­ties, Panama’s dol­lar based econ­omy is sus­tained largely by the Colon Free Trade Zone (largest in the west­ern hemi­sphere) and the Canal, as well as ser­vices from the oper­a­tion of the two includ­ing flag­ship reg­istry and canal tolls.

The Canal is the only water­way link­ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a mas­sive ben­e­fit when it was cre­ated because of the num­ber of ships being lost tra­vers­ing the dan­ger­ous route via the Drake Pas­sage and Cape Horn. The Canal is rapidly becom­ing too small for today’s ships, and the expan­sion will not only dou­ble its capac­ity but quadru­ple rev­enues from its oper­a­tion, which, com­bined with oper­a­tion of the Free Trade Zone already accounts for a quar­ter of Panama’s GDP.

The canal expan­sion will add new live to Panama’s eco­nomic growth, which is likely to remain strong between now and its com­ple­tion, mak­ing Panama excel­lent for long-term prop­erty investment.

Another ben­e­fit in Panama’s prop­erty mar­ket is the fact that it is to American’s, what the Costa’s are to Brits. More American’s buy their retire­ment homes in Panama than any other coun­try. This pro­vides a mas­sive mar­ket for the resale of Panama prop­er­ties, to ensure that growth in prop­erty val­ues can be cashed in.

Find out more about the best invest­ment prop­er­ties around the world


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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5Jul/080

III" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/david-stanley-redfern-ltd-reveal-investment-hotspots-part-iii/" rel="bookmark">David Stanley Redfern Ltd Reveal Investment Hotspots Part III

This is the third part in a four part series, parts I and II revealed the top 5 loca­tions for short-term invest­ment based on David Stan­ley Red­fern Ltd research since the begin­ning of 2008, namely, the Philip­pines, Koh Samui (Thai island), Isla Mar­garita, Fiji and Cam­bo­dia, in that order, and this and part IIII will reveal the top 5 loca­tions for long term invest­ment based on the same research. Below you will find the top 2 loca­tions for prop­erty investment.

1: Alba­nia

Alba­nia is cur­rently the num­ber one loca­tion for long term prop­erty invest­ment because of its deter­mi­na­tion to become a full mem­ber of the EU in 2014, but more than that, the seem­ing deter­mi­na­tion of the EU to make sure Alba­nia suc­ceeds in gain­ing full mem­ber­ship. The most impor­tant rela­tion­ship between this deter­mi­na­tion and prop­erty invest­ment is the masses of money the EU, has, is and will pro­vide Alba­nia to develop eco­nomic com­pet­i­tive­ness, infra­struc­ture, and gen­eral prosperity.

Of course the EU would go to no such lengths if Alba­nia was not show­ing incred­i­ble poten­tial for eco­nomic growth in its own right, as more and more busi­nesses relo­cate to emerg­ing mar­kets, and buy their con­sum­ables from emerg­ing mar­ket traders in the mas­sive global cost-cutting exercises.

Eco­nomic growth, which is secure in Albania’s future until at least 2014, will gen­er­ate increas­ing afflu­ence within the pop­u­la­tion at large, liv­ing cost rises bring about wage rises, bring about liv­ing cost rises and so on, in a what-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg sce­nario. And house prices will be pushed up in line with that peo­ple can afford.

All the above means that you can pre­dict sta­ble and sus­tained growth in Alba­nia prop­erty prices until at least 2014, at which point, the sta­ble democ­racy, and semi-established mar­ket of Alba­nia will have a fair chance of see­ing con­tin­ued prop­erty price growth from then on.

2: Panama

Since the Pana­man­ian gov­ern­ment announced plans to expand the Panama Canal in Octo­ber 2006, Panama’s eco­nomic growth has been off the charts, GDP growth around 11% year on year to be exact, prop­erty val­ues have been grow­ing at a recorded and sus­tained 25% per year over the same period.

Though Panama is cur­rently grow­ing into one of the world’s main finan­cial and bank­ing cen­tres, with good com­mu­ni­ca­tions and first world ameni­ties, Panama’s dol­lar based econ­omy is sus­tained largely by the Colon Free Trade Zone (largest in the west­ern hemi­sphere) and the Canal, as well as ser­vices from the oper­a­tion of the two includ­ing flag­ship reg­istry and canal tolls.

The Canal is the only water­way link­ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a mas­sive ben­e­fit when it was cre­ated because of the num­ber of ships being lost tra­vers­ing the dan­ger­ous route via the Drake Pas­sage and Cape Horn. The Canal is rapidly becom­ing too small for today’s ships, and the expan­sion will not only dou­ble its capac­ity but quadru­ple rev­enues from its oper­a­tion, which, com­bined with oper­a­tion of the Free Trade Zone already accounts for a quar­ter of Panama’s GDP.

The canal expan­sion will add new live to Panama’s eco­nomic growth, which is likely to remain strong between now and its com­ple­tion, mak­ing Panama excel­lent for long-term prop­erty investment.

Another ben­e­fit in Panama’s prop­erty mar­ket is the fact that it is to American’s, what the Costa’s are to Brits. More American’s buy their retire­ment homes in Panama than any other coun­try. This pro­vides a mas­sive mar­ket for the resale of Panama prop­er­ties, to ensure that growth in prop­erty val­ues can be cashed in.

Find out more about the best invest­ment prop­er­ties around the world


About DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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5Jul/080

Off-plan property offers off the scale profits

off plan property Off plan property offers off the scale profitsFor­get the hor­ror sto­ries of unfin­ished build­ings and unseen returns; off-plan prop­erty is now safe and com­mon­place. No longer an inno­v­a­tive or com­pli­cated pro­ce­dure, buy­ing off-plan prop­erty through a trusted agent can be com­pletely stress-free.

It may seem off-putting to pay for some­thing that does not phys­i­cally exist, but off-plan pur­chases are esca­lat­ing in pop­u­lar­ity as well as in prof­itabil­ity. Prices tend to be far lower than the mar­ket aver­age, and by the time the prop­erty is fin­ished it will most likely have already achieved cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion, mean­ing instant gains for the buyer.

This is espe­cially true for off-plan resort prop­erty in emerg­ing mar­kets; where prop­er­ties are priced any­where from 30–50 per­cent, to even 75 per­cent less than what they will sell for on the sec­ondary mar­ket after completion.

These dis­counts reflect the per­ceived risk of pay­ing for a prop­erty yet to be built, but by choos­ing an agent that offers due dili­gence from start to fin­ish this risk is min­i­mal to non-existent.

David Stan­ley Red­fern is a com­pany with a world renowned rep­u­ta­tion for ensur­ing devel­op­ers deliver. And as invest­ment spe­cial­ists, they only sell prop­erty that is capa­ble of mak­ing their clients money. The company’s exten­sive research arm, ana­lysts, expe­ri­ence and over­seas exper­tise work to ensure that all prop­erty sold is capa­ble of gen­er­at­ing sub­stan­tial gains, be it over the short-term or a mid-long term investment.

As off-plan prop­erty, espe­cially in emerg­ing mar­kets, is poten­tially the most lucra­tive invest­ment for clients the major­ity of David Stan­ley Redfern’s prop­er­ties are off-plan, and mostly in emerg­ing mar­kets.

In the Philip­pines, the Lan­caster the Atrium Tow­ers rep­re­sent the best breed of city real estate, promis­ing higher than aver­age yields (circa12%) and excep­tional growth (off-plan prices per m2 in this dis­trict have grown by 40% in the last 24 months).

In Panama, any prop­erty bought from a rep­utable agent is a good invest­ment. The coun­try has excep­tional rental yields and care­fully cho­sen prop­erty on Panama’s coast can reach yields of 15 per­cent. Prop­erty prices grew by 50 per­cent between early 2006 and early 2008, and growth remains strong as high lev­els of demand con­tinue. David Stan­ley Red­fern cur­rently has the Bala Beach Resort as part of its portfolio.

In the Domini­can Repub­lic, investors have been buy­ing off-plan devel­op­ments to make gains between pur­chase and com­ple­tion, tak­ing out finance for the full value and using the extra to take their deposit back. The increased for­eign invest­ment in prop­erty, and increased tourism, has cre­ated the poten­tial for 10%-20% cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion, and 8%-10% rental yields. Invest­ment prop­erty is pri­mar­ily in and around the coastal areas and David Stan­ley Red­fern has two off-plan devel­op­ments in the midst of some of the country’s best and most pop­u­lar beaches.

Find out more about invest­ment prop­erty.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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UK for bargain property and rising prices" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/escape-the-uk-for-bargain-property-and-rising-prices/" rel="bookmark">Escape the UK for bargain property and rising prices

News on the UK hous­ing mar­ket has become a famil­iar story: Prices are falling; mort­gage rates are ris­ing; the whole mar­ket is in decline and shows no signs of recovery.

On Fri­day, Hal­i­fax pub­lished fig­ures con­firm­ing the value of a UK home fell by 2.4 per­cent in May, the sev­enth month in the past eight when prices have fallen.

UK prices are now declin­ing more rapidly than at any time since the early 90s prop­erty crash. And accord­ing to a key index of prop­erty price futures, this slide will con­tinue for at least three years, crush­ing the value of a home by almost 50 per­cent in real terms. Indi­ca­tions from futures trad­ing on long term prop­erty prices show the aver­age UK home only recov­er­ing its cur­rent value in 2017.

Mean­while, prop­erty prices abroad are show­ing ever increas­ing prices rises. And over­seas prop­erty spe­cial­ists, David Stan­ley Red­fern , have a num­ber of prop­er­ties main­tain­ing high cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion and high rental yields.

Mon­tene­gro prop­erty, for exam­ple, is expected to grow in value by 15–20 per­cent per year, pos­si­bly reach­ing growth of 30 per­cent per year as the coun­try pro­gresses towards EU acces­sion. Alba­nia, also on the road to EU acces­sion, is show­ing sim­i­lar lev­els of growth. While on Mar­garita island, the only Caribbean island out­side the hur­ri­cane belt, prop­erty prices have risen, on aver­age, 32 per­cent in the last two years and prices are expected to grow by at least 15–20 per­cent annu­ally in the next 2–5 years.

Thai­land has also become a hot favourite with investors, who have enjoyed cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion not lower than 25 per­cent in the first five years of its growth. While Philip­pines prop­erty is expected to grow in value by no less than 24 per­cent in the next five years and pos­si­bly even more in the next 2–3 years. In Fiji, David Stan­ley Red­fern cur­rently have stu­dio houses from £25,000, likely to be worth £35,000 — £40,000 when they are built, and £60,000 — £80,000 in 2 years time. In Cambodia’s Phnom Penh, growth in busi­ness and com­mer­cial sec­tors; ris­ing afflu­ence; and a rapidly emerg­ing tourism sec­tor will see prop­erty prices con­tinue to rise by at least 15%-25% per year.

And these emerg­ing mar­kets look set to sur­vive the global slow­down as busi­nesses increas­ingly move their oper­a­tions into cheaper loca­tions, import their goods from cheaper places and tourists hol­i­day in cheaper destinations.

With seem­ingly no way up for UK hous­ing, now is the time to invest in coun­tries with a brighter future.

Find out more about the hottest invest­ment prop­erty over­seas.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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21Jun/080

Rising Fuel Costs No Effect on Air Travel

There has been much neg­a­tive press about the ris­ing cost of crude oil and its effect on air-travel, with many argu­ing it is the end of an era for bud­get airlines.

Easy­Jet has admit­ted that its costs have risen by £4 per cus­tomer due to higher fuel prices, while BA is expected to raise fares by 4 per­cent over the next year. And yes­ter­day, Chief Exec­u­tive of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, said aver­age fares for the com­ing year would rise by approx­i­mately 5 percent.

Yet despite all this doom and gloom, Ryanair posted a 20 per­cent rise in adjusted full-year net profit; BA last week cel­e­brated record pre-tax prof­its of £883m; and ana­lysts expect easy­Jet to make a full-year profit of £150m.

The major air­lines are, in fact, well placed to weather the storm of high fuel prices, espe­cially when con­sid­er­ing their fuel hedg­ing strate­gies — buy­ing fuel in advance at a fixed price. BA, for exam­ple, has bought about two-thirds of its fuel at $86 a bar­rel until next March. And while the air­lines will fac­tor in the ris­ing cost of fuel in the short-term, many ana­lysts believe oil is in the grip of a spec­u­la­tive boom – U.S oil con­sump­tion fell 7% in Feb­ru­ary, equiv­a­lent to a 2% slump in global demand, but the oil price went up.

Com­pa­nies such as Ryanair and low-cost rival easy­Jet will try to leave fares untouched, cut­ting costs else­where, because cheap tick­ets are the key part of their no-frills busi­ness model. As Toby Nicol, easyJet’s direc­tor of com­mu­ni­ca­tions, said this week: “easyJet’s aver­age fare last year was £43 one way, before gov­ern­ment tax, so the era of the £39 fare is actu­ally still very much alive and well.” And while the press may be plot­ting their demise, nei­ther easy­Jet, nor Ryanair have reported a fall in demand – last month Ryanair car­ried over 5 mil­lion pas­sen­gers, the high­est fig­ure ever recorded by any UK airline.

For the con­sumer, the extra cost in fuel per per­son is just a small frac­tion of the hol­i­day bud­get, espe­cially when con­sid­er­ing ris­ing fuel costs are hit­ting many just as much at the petrol pumps. A slightly more expen­sive air-ticket has not, and will not dampen the demand for hol­i­days when it’s rain­ing out­side and work has been hard.

Indeed, Tui Travel, home to the Thom­son and First Choice busi­nesses in the UK, said sales over the last six weeks were up 9 per­cent on a year ago and the com­pany has been left with fewer hol­i­days left to sell. Win­ter hol­i­day book­ings from the UK were up 15 percent.

While David Stan­ley Red­fern, the over­seas prop­erty spe­cial­ists, have seen their prop­er­ties achieve ever increas­ing rental yields and cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion as more and more hol­i­day abroad. Their Mon­tene­gro prop­erty is expected to grow in value by 25–30 per­cent per year, achiev­ing rental yields of between 6 and 10 per­cent, and Alba­nia prop­erty earns 5–7 rental yields and 10–15 per­cent cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion. With the bud­get air­lines con­tin­u­ing to write their names across the skies; it’s good to know that all these prop­er­ties are just a short flight away.

Find out more about over­seas prop­erty and buy­ing prop­erty over­seas.


About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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17Jun/080

The Philippines: Strong Growth in Testing Times

Despite the prospect of an eco­nomic slow­down — the result of an increas­ingly hos­tile global cli­mate — strong growth is expected to con­tinue unabated in the Philip­pines prop­erty market.

On Fri­day, the Philip­pines Eco­nomic Plan­ning Sec­re­tary Augusto San­tos said he expected annual eco­nomic growth to slow between 5.2–6.2 per­cent in the first quar­ter as high oil and food prices hit consumption.

Despite this, prop­erty prices in the Philip­pines are being kept buoy­ant by a huge hous­ing back­log, low inter­est rates, friendly pay­ment terms, higher incomes of work­ers in the grow­ing out­sourc­ing indus­try, and a ris­ing expa­tri­ate population.

In par­tic­u­lar, the hous­ing back­log of 3.8 mil­lion units has left 70 per­cent of the country’s 90 mil­lion pop­u­la­tion (approx) with­out their own home. This is the big dif­fer­ence between now, and the prop­erty boom before the Asian cri­sis of 1997–98. The demand for hous­ing is not spec­u­la­tive; it is not investor dri­ven; but rather end-user demand dri­ven — a spe­cific demand that is being addressed.

Con­struc­tion is boom­ing across much of the coun­try, espe­cially in Manila, a mostly low-rise city where dozens of res­i­den­tial tow­ers are begin­ning to dot the sky­line. Accord­ing to David Stan­ley Red­fern research, at least 38,000 new apart­ments will be avail­able by 2013 in the Makati finan­cial dis­trict and in nearby Boni­fa­cio Global City alone.

One such prop­erty in Makati is Lan­caster the Atrium Tow­ers. Sit­u­ated in the heart of the cen­tral busi­ness dis­trict the units are keenly priced and offer sub­stan­tial cap­i­tal growth. Off plan prices per m2 in this dis­trict have grown by 40% in the last 24 months and the prop­erty promises higher than aver­age yields of around 12 percent.

With no let-up in demand, the time to invest is now.

Find out more about Philip­pines prop­erty and buy­ing prop­erty in the Philip­pines.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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17Jun/080

Philippines Property Boosted by Rising Tourism

The Philip­pines Depart­ment of Tourism data shows tourist arrivals from Jan­u­ary to April increased by 7.5 per­cent on the same four months last year.

Tourist arrivals in the Philip­pines already topped the 3 mil­lion mark in 2007, the high­est in years, while tourism spend­ing grew by almost 41 per­cent last year. Yet 2008 looks likely to be an even bet­ter year for the Philippines.

In April alone, arrivals were up 4.3 per­cent on last years fig­ures, a 126% improve­ment over the 1.9% increase recorded in April 2007. Add to this the pos­si­ble intro­duc­tion of a com­mon visa across South-East Asia — a move expected to stream­line tourism to the region — and the future looks bright for the Philippines.

There is nowhere bet­ter placed to profit from this increase than the cap­i­tal, Manila. Of the 11 cruise ships that arrived in the coun­try through­out Jan­u­ary to April; seven of them dis­em­barked here.

It is in Manila; in the pros­per­ous finan­cial dis­trict of Makati where David Stan­ley Redfern’s Lan­caster the Atrium Tow­ers can be found. Already the loca­tion of choice for seri­ous global investors, Makati ben­e­fits from an ever increas­ing num­ber of busi­ness users that flock to the area as multi-national cor­po­ra­tions and estab­lished Fil­ipino com­pa­nies take hold.

Off plan prices per m2 in the Makati dis­trict grew by 40% in the last 24 months and units in Lan­caster the Atrium can come fully fur­nished, fully man­aged and ready to rent. With busi­ness demand already promis­ing rental yields of up to 12%, an upsurge in tourist arrivals merely presents another rea­son to invest.

Find out more about Philip­pines prop­erty and buy­ing prop­erty in the Philip­pines.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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31May/080

Overseas Property: Resale Markets Boosted by British Emigration

The Office of National Sta­tis­tics has revealed that 4000 Britons are emi­grat­ing each week, in the biggest mass exo­dus for almost 50 years. Among the rea­sons for mov­ing abroad were, loutish behav­iour and the dete­ri­o­ra­tion of British hous­ing estates, ris­ing liv­ing costs, the gov­ern­ment and pres­sure at work, oth­ers are mov­ing in seek of career oppor­tu­ni­ties in emerg­ing mar­kets. The find­ings also showed that the emi­gra­tion was mostly tak­ing place to coun­tries within the com­mon­wealth, with Canada, Aus­tralia, New Zealand and the United States being the most popular.

Some would say the growth in relo­cat­ing Brits was almost inevitable, with expo­nen­tial rises in yob cul­ture, and its spread­ing to the sub­urbs, and even small vil­lages, as well as flights becom­ing so quick, so cheap and such an inte­gral part of daily life.

David Stan­ley Red­fern have expe­ri­enced the rise in Britons buy­ing prop­erty abroad to emi­grate at first hand, Oper­a­tions Man­ager said:
“Yeah, we sell all the time to peo­ple who plan to go and live in their prop­erty abroad, the increase has been notice­ably rapid. Canada is pop­u­lar with those sorts of buy­ers, but we have even sold to peo­ple mov­ing to places like Mon­tene­gro, and Malaysia.”

The head of inter­na­tional research for the over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist added:
“While this isn’t par­tic­u­larly good news for Britain, with so many of our skilled work­ers tak­ing their skills abroad, it is good news for the over­seas prop­erty indus­try, specif­i­cally in Canada, the U.S. and the other pop­u­lar emi­gra­tion des­ti­na­tions. Increas­ing emi­gra­tion from an afflu­ent area like the U.K. will mas­sively strengthen the resale mar­kets in those coun­tries, and ensure the peo­ple cur­rently buy­ing off-plan make the profit they project on the resale mar­ket in spite of global slowdowns.”

Find out more about buy­ing prop­erty abroad, for emi­gra­tion, hol­i­days, invest­ment or retire­ment.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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31May/080

Overseas Property Specialist Reveals Most Popular Locations

As one of the U.K’s most suc­cess­ful over­seas prop­erty com­pa­nies, David Stan­ley Red­fern announced plans May 19 to begin reveal­ing the des­ti­na­tions most pop­u­lar with vis­i­tors to their site. Last week the emerg­ing mar­kets spe­cial­ist revealed that Alba­nia was the most enquired about coun­try, but this week they are reveal­ing a com­pre­hen­sive list of 10 most pop­u­lar coun­tries based on coun­try page views, and prop­erty views, and also the 10 most fre­quently searched for coun­tries on the on-site search. The firm’s oper­a­tions man­ager said:

“There is a lot of doom and gloom about the indus­try in the news at the moment, because of the credit crunch, but we have not seen one neg­a­tive effect so far, in fact we had more enquiries last week than we have had in any one week before. We think that releas­ing our most pop­u­lar prop­er­ties, because they are so widely var­ied in loca­tion, it will perk up the indus­try by show­ing global prop­erty is still as pop­u­lar as ever.”

Accord­ing to the release the most pop­u­lar coun­try with browsers of the DSR web­site, is unsur­pris­ingly Alba­nia, Cam­bo­dia is sec­ond and Canada third, whereas Canada is most pop­u­lar with searchers, with Alba­nia a close sec­ond. The biggest sur­prise is Italy, which is the third most searched for coun­try, but is the sixth most vis­ited by browsers of the site, and to con­firm the major dif­fer­ence between browsers and searchers, Ger­many is the fourth most searched for coun­try, whereas Ger­many only just made it into the list, as the ninth most vis­ited by browsers of the site, and Mon­tene­gro the ninth most fre­quently searched coun­try, didn’t make it into the top ten most pop­u­lar with browsers.

The com­plete find­ings are as follows:

Most searched for coun­tries:
1. Canada
2. Alba­nia
3. Italy
4. Ger­many
5. India
6. Malaysia
7. Thai­land
8. United States
9. Mon­tene­gro
10. Fiji

Most Pop­u­lar with browsers:
1. India (includ­ing Goa)
2. Alba­nia
3. Cam­bo­dia
4. Canada
5. Philip­pines
6. Italy
7. Thai­land
8. Malaysia
9. Ger­many
10. United States

Find out more about the most pop­u­lar prop­erty invest­ment destinations.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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25May/080

Canary Islands Property Growing in Popularity

In a recent study by globaledge.co.uk, using key­word analy­sis tool word-tracker, to analyse the most pop­u­lar searches for over­seas prop­erty by coun­try, the Canary Islands proved one of the biggest shock­ers, with Tener­ife mak­ing it into the top-ten, Fuerteven­tura not far behind, and even the local­i­ties of Costa Teguise (Lan­zarote), Palm Mar (Tener­ife), and Caleta de Fuste (Fuerteven­tura) all mak­ing it into the top 70.

This is a major insight into the Canary Islands grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity as a prop­erty invest­ment des­ti­na­tion. David Stan­ley Red­fern, ever-a-finger on the pulse of over­seas prop­erty invest­ment trends have just added a new Tener­ife prop­erty: the Par­que don José, a fully equipped resort devel­op­ment, in an area per­fect for hol­i­day mak­ers, near Las Gal­letas in Costa del Silencio.

The head of inter­na­tional research for David Stan­ley Red­fern, had this to say on the prop­erty’s growth poten­tial:
“As an invest­ment, Par­que don José has bucket loads of poten­tial, espe­cially for hol­i­day home investors, i.e. who intend to make money from its rental when hot hol­i­day­ing in it them­selves. Though never scorch­ing, the Canary Islands is warm all year round, and Tener­ife tourism is on the rise again as Spain gets too hot, sticky and crowded, so occu­pancy on Tener­ife prop­erty will be between 80 and 100%, allow­ing investors to make rental yields of between 8 and 10% depend­ing on how much the use it themselves.

“Cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion on these apart­ments is likely to be around 10%-15% per year. Tener­ife prop­erty prices are slightly higher than some of the new emerg­ing mar­kets, but you are pay­ing extra for the safety of buy­ing an exist­ing prop­erty that you can use/rent-out straight away, and in a secure, estab­lished mar­ket, which also has a well devel­oped infra­struc­ture already geared up for tourism, mak­ing it the prop­erty easy to mar­ket for hol­i­day rentals.

Plan­ning per­mis­sion was recently passed for a new five star hotel, an arti­fi­cial beach and a spa, indi­cat­ing that Costa del Silen­cio is a new growth area. The Par­que don José resort itself has just received an EU grant, to be used for mak­ing mas­sive upgrades to the resort, which will push up prices. Now is the time to buy.

Find out more about Canary Islands prop­erty and buying prop­erty in Canary Islands.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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23May/080

II" href="http://www.dsrassetmanagement.co.uk/david-stanley-redfern-reveal-top-property-hotspots-%e2%80%93-part-ii/" rel="bookmark">David Stanley Redfern Reveal Top Property Hotspots – Part II

This is the sec­ond part in a 4 part series that will con­clude the release of David Stan­ley Red­fern research into global prop­erty mar­kets. The first two parts reveal­ing the top five des­ti­na­tions for short term invest­ment, and the next 2 parts reveal­ing the top five des­ti­na­tions for long term invest­ment. The first part in the series put the Philip­pines in no1 spot, and Thailand’s Koh Samui island a close second.

No 3 – Isla Mar­garita – Venezuela

After first rear­ing its head towards the end of 2005, Mar­garita Island, off the north coast of Venezuela is finally start­ing to get the atten­tion it deserves from inter­na­tional tourists and investors. The only Caribbean island out­side the hur­ri­cane belt, Mar­garita has knocked the Domini­can Repub­lic of the spot as the cheap­est loca­tion to buy a Caribbean beach house. And with Mar­garita vis­i­tor num­bers increas­ing by hun­dreds of thou­sands per year, attracted by its all year round warm cli­mate, Margarita’s econ­omy, and prop­erty prices will grow mas­sively in the next 2-5years.

An off-plan devel­op­ment, where you can now buy a 1 bed­room for under 30k, will be worth any­where between 50% and 100% more in 2 years time. Rental yields will go up from the cur­rent 6–8%, to 8%-12% over the same period.

No 4 — Fiji

Fiji is going to be mas­sive for much the same rea­sons as Mar­garita. Autralia and New Zealand have both been mas­sive on the prop­erty invest­ment front, but they are now estab­lished mar­kets and prop­erty is now on the pricey side. Fiji already has their cli­mate, beau­ti­ful turquoise warm seas, as well as coral reefs and all the water wildlife that inhab­its them and the waters sur­round­ing them. The infra­struc­ture and hol­i­day ameni­ties are devel­op­ing at a rapid rate, as is vis­i­tor num­bers to these beau­ti­ful pacific islands, where the cost of liv­ing is so low, and you can do any­thing from bask­ing in the sun­shine to swim­ming with turtles.

As tourism grows mas­sively so does the econ­omy, but the biggest ben­e­fit to Fiji’s growth poten­tial is the incred­i­bly low prices of off-plan prop­erty. DSR cur­rently have stu­dio houses from £25,000, which are likely to be worth £35,000 — £40,000 when they are built, and £60,000 — £80,000 in 2 years time. Rental yields are cur­rently around the 8–10% mark, and may well see growth in the next 2–3 years.

No 5 – Cambodia

The main growth in Cam­bo­dia prop­erty has cen­tred on Phnom Penh thus far. Phnom Penh’s mas­sive growth in the past few years means the mar­ket is look­ing like it might level out, and prop­erty is not as cheap as it once was. That said, there is still plenty of room for cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion; as Phnom Penh’s busi­ness and com­mer­cial sec­tors con­tinue to see mas­sive lev­els of growth, ris­ing afflu­ence as well as a rapidly emerg­ing tourism sec­tor will see prop­erty prices con­tinue to rise by at least 15%-25% per year.

Bear in mind there is still very lit­tle in the way of off-plan devel­op­ment in Phnom Penh, these com­ing onto the mar­ket could see spec­tac­u­lar growth. The Cam­bo­dian gov­ern­ments new plan to re-launch the national air­line, as Cam­bo­dia tourism begins to see mas­sive growth, is likely to spread growth, and new Cam­bo­dia prop­erty hotspots will start to emerge, espe­cially around Cambodia’s beau­ti­ful unspoilt coast­line, which is begin­ning to rival Thai­land and Bali as a regional tourism hotspot.

Find out more about the hottest invest­ment prop­erty over­seas.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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20May/080

Emerging Market Property Investment: Fortune Favours the Bold

What I have been say­ing for a while now was con­firmed by Stan­dard Life Apr 18 when they announced that emerg­ing mar­kets are the safest place to invest in the cur­rent global eco­nomic slow­down. Stan­dard Life made the announce­ment along­side mak­ing a major invest­ment into the emerg­ing mar­ket of Brazil, as they put their money where their mouth is.

They explained that emerg­ing mar­kets are cur­rently excel­lent invest­ment loca­tions, because the two big emerg­ing mar­kets, China and India, are mas­sive importers of the basic mate­ri­als that the new emerg­ing mar­kets are export­ing cheaper than any of the estab­lished markets.

For a long time now I have said that a global mar­ket slow­down will actu­ally be good for emerg­ing mar­kets, because as peo­ple and busi­nesses tighten their belts, they will increas­ingly turn to the lower cost of the new emerg­ing mar­kets, to relo­cate their oper­a­tions to, out­source to, import from, and hol­i­day in.

This can only be good news for emerg­ing mar­ket prop­erty. When you buy a prop­erty in an emerg­ing mar­ket, you are buy­ing to cap­i­talise on either the influx of busi­nesses, the influx of tourists, or, if you’re lucky, both.

You are rely­ing on these things, a: because incom­ing tourists and busi­nesses import­ing their top level man­age­ment, trans­lates to lots of peo­ple to rent out your prop­erty to. But also, because the incom­ing money, be it from tourists or new busi­ness and the employ­ment thereof, increases the afflu­ence of the area, this causes liv­ing costs and the cost of build­ing mate­ri­als to rise, which then means wages have to go up, trans­lat­ing to increases in the costs of build­ing prop­er­ties, all of which pushes house prices up, some­times by as much as 50% per year.

You will only get growth like that in an emerg­ing mar­ket. Some peo­ple, and I don’t mean Joe down the road, but well respected peo­ple in the indus­try, say that emerg­ing mar­ket prop­erty is cheap, and likely to stay that way.

But I have always said, once a mar­ket starts to emerge, be it trig­gered by growth in new busi­nesses or tourism growth, the cycle I laid out above begins and it is a cycle that has per­pet­ual motion; increas­ing house prices means more money in tax rev­enues, wealth­ier devel­op­ers putting money back into the econ­omy, thus con­tin­u­ing to increase afflu­ence, not to men­tion mem­bers of the local com­mu­ni­ties get­ting pro­moted, small busi­ness becom­ing big from ris­ing tourism, all trans­lat­ing to rises in liv­ing costs, higher wages and keep­ing house price growth strong.

Some would say that invest­ing in an emerg­ing mar­ket prop­erty is a bold move, but in that case — as Stan­dard Life’s announce­ment proves — the say­ing: for­tune favours the bold has never been more true of any­thing, than it is of an emerg­ing mar­ket prop­erty invest­ment in the cur­rent climate.

Find out more at www.davidstanleyredfern.com.

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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18May/080

Overseas Property: More Signs for Sustained Growth

Canada, Aus­tralia, New Zealand and United States, are the most pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tions with emi­grat­ing Brits, and accord­ing to an study by the UK Office of National Sta­tis­tics that is cur­rently some 4000 peo­ple every week. This num­ber has increased extremely rapidly in the last few years, as peo­ple tire of yob­bish behav­iour, dete­ri­o­rat­ing hous­ing estates, the gov­ern­ment, ris­ing cost of liv­ing, and oth­ers emi­grate seek­ing career oppor­tu­ni­ties in grow­ing economies like Montenegro.

The yob­bish behav­iour and liv­ing costs are unlikely decrease any­time soon (short of a mir­a­cle), so the num­ber of Britons mov­ing abroad will con­tinue to rise. As peo­ple emi­grat­ing are usu­ally look­ing to buy exist­ing houses, as oppose to off-plan, this is great news for sec­ondary hous­ing mar­kets, espe­cially in the most pop­u­lar coun­tries men­tioned above.

This is also great news for the over­seas prop­erty invest­ment indus­try, as over­seas investors usu­ally buy off-plan in order to make the biggest gains, and a fre­quent worry is whether they will be able to sell for their pro­jected profit; will there be any­one to sell to, and accord­ing to this report, the answer in Canada, the U.S., Aus­tralia, and New Zealand is a def­i­nite yes.

The Sun­day Express recently reported that the num­ber of young Britons invest­ing in prop­erty over­seas con­tin­ues to rise, despite falling U.K. house prices, prices still haven’t fallen sub­stan­tially enough for first-time buy­ers, and this is also great news for them.

I wrote in my last arti­cle that all the signs point to the over­seas prop­erty mar­ket con­tin­u­ing to be strong, and the two lat­est reports only strengthen my standpoint.

Find out more at www.davidstanleyredfern.com

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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9May/080

Property Abroad Popularity Growing Despite Credit Crunch

All the signs point to the over­seas prop­erty mar­ket con­tin­u­ing to remain incred­i­bly strong for the fore­see­able future. A sur­vey by fairinvestment.co.uk has revealed that nearly 50% of Britons said they would con­sider buy­ing their first prop­erty abroad, and 8 per­cent had already done so. A sim­i­lar sur­vey last year revealed that 25% of Britons would con­sider buy­ing their first prop­erty abroad, and the 25% rise is excel­lent news for the U.K. over­seas prop­erty industry.

Prop­erty abroad is becom­ing even more pop­u­lar, not least because of the peo­ple who can’t get onto the prop­erty lad­der, and who buy a prop­erty abroad to use the rental income to increase their buy­ing power back home, and/or to use the lump-sum from the prof­itable resale as a down-payment, or towards pay­ing off their mortgage.

With the credit crunch and UK prop­erty prices now falling, you could say that this soon won’t be as nec­es­sary, but another con­se­quence of the credit-crunch is that it is mak­ing mort­gages harder to get in the UK, which means buy­ing prop­erty abroad will remain a nec­es­sary part of some people’s path onto the prop­erty ladder.

Another big advan­tage prop­erty abroad now has is the fact that prof­its are proven. I can give exam­ples of Goa prop­er­ties we sold last year, that are now on the sec­ondary mar­ket, and sell­ing for over 40% more than they were last year. Of Thai island Koh Samui prop­er­ties sell­ing at the end of last year for 100% more than they went for at the end of 2005.

And with invest­ment bank­ing reports that emerg­ing mar­kets will con­tinue to grow strongly through­out global tur­moil, because of India and China’s need to buy bulk basic mate­ri­als at low prices, which they buy from the new emerg­ing mar­kets, prop­erty abroad has a bright future, a rar­ity in the present world.

Prop­erty abroad has another string to its bow: the secu­rity of putting your money into bricks and mor­tar. Stocks and shares are fine when they are doing well, but they can go from being worth mil­lions of pounds, to not even being worth mil­lions of pence overnight. Prop­erty can­not do that. So, if you buy prop­erty abroad to make a profit, and you do that’s great, but even if you don’t you are unlikely to be hurt too badly by it, of course assum­ing you have cho­sen care­fully in the first place.

Of course, if you buy a prop­erty abroad as a hol­i­day home only, then you have noth­ing to worry about as it will almost def­i­nitely be a nice nest egg for those you leave behind, or to pay for kids col­lege fees etc.

So there you have it. In the face of global eco­nomic uncer­tainty and credit crunch anx­i­ety, prop­erty abroad con­tin­ues to grow in pop­u­lar­ity, and remains one of the most prof­itable forms of invest­ment in the cur­rent climate.

Find out more at www.davidstanleyredfern.com

About DSR Asset Management

DSR is an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist, work­ing directly with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries. All prop­er­ties are exclu­sive to DSR , giv­ing an unpar­al­leled selec­tion of resale and new builds.

Please direct all media queries, requests for press infor­ma­tion and edi­to­r­ial details, to media@davidstanleyredfern.com

David Red­fern is the direc­tor of DSR Asset Man­age­ment an over­seas prop­erty invest­ment spe­cial­ist. David works closely with devel­op­ers in more than forty coun­tries and over­sees the DSR edu­ca­tion pro­gramme which lec­tures indi­vid­u­als and organ­i­sa­tions on prop­erty invest­ment. Adver­tise Your Pri­vate Over­seas Property

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