DSR Asset Management Overseas Property Investments

4Feb/100

Real Estate Recovery

In a new arti­cle scep­ti­cally enti­tled ‘Real Estate Recov­ery?’ Peter Lloyd noted “Then there was a very inter­est­ing arti­cle in a UK Sun­day news­pa­per which listed Thai­land as hav­ing the world’s third high­est price rises in the first 3 months of this year record­ing a 2.7% increase (Jer­sey and Fin­land with 5.6% and 4% increases were above Thai­land). I don’t know how they got their sta­tis­tics, but let’s assume there is some proof to jus­tify them, how­ever they were collated.”

I don’t know where they got their sta­tis­tics from either, but why on Earth would Fin­land be far­ing so well? After all, is it not one of those cold places like Ice­land, scene of the worst prop­erty crash in liv­ing mem­ory? Ice­land has Bjork and fish and toxic debt. What about Fin­land? Wait, what’s this com­ing down the newswire…

Intel and Nokia Announce Strate­gic Rela­tion­ship to Shape Next Era of Mobile Com­put­ing Innovation”

Fur­ther unit­ing the Inter­net with mobile phones and com­put­ers, Intel Cor­po­ra­tion and Nokia today announced a long-term rela­tion­ship to develop a new class of Intel® Architecture-based mobile com­put­ing device and chipset archi­tec­tures which will com­bine the per­for­mance of pow­er­ful com­put­ers with high-bandwidth mobile broad­band com­mu­ni­ca­tions and ubiq­ui­tous Inter­net connectivity.”

Thus spake the world-reknowned Earth­Times. So Fin­land is high tech. Then of course, Santa lives there, and that’s a seri­ously global brand, big­ger even than Nokia.

Not just the name of the orig­i­nal, Levi is the offi­cial FIS Alpine Ski World Cup resort located in North­ern Lap­land, a lively upmar­ket hol­i­day town.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment are offer­ing the supe­rior yet rea­son­ably priced Snow White apart­ments in this hol­i­day hot .. er cold spot.

A guar­an­teed rental income until the end of Jan­u­ary 2011 is just one of the rea­sons for buy­ing into the sev­eral lux­u­ri­ous prop­er­ties sit­u­ated at the foot of the ski slopes.

Each unique flat offers stun­ning views onto the slopes or the adja­cent golf course. All the ground floor apart­ments have gar­dens, the first floor apart­ments come with spa­cious bal­conies, and the pent­houses have large panoramic ter­races. All have under floor heat­ing and a pri­vate sauna and come with a plethora high spec mod cons includ­ing audio/visual instal­la­tions, mono­grammed tow­els and per­son­alised loofas. Well I am sure you could ask for the lat­ter as a rider…

Prices start from €150,800 for a Stu­dio apart­ment which sleeps up to 4 peo­ple, and stop at €437,900 for a 3 Bed­room Duplex Pent­house which can house 8. Finance of up to 50% is avail­able. The near­est air­port is only 15km away in Kit­tilä, with direct flights from the UK and other many other national airports.

In Levi there is a wealth of activ­i­ties for you to choose from besides ski­ing and golf — depend­ing on the sea­son you can go on Snow­mo­bile safaris, Husky sledge treks and Rein­deer safaris. There is also ample oppor­tu­nity for fish­ing and canoe­ing on the beau­ti­ful Lap­pish lakes, sur­rounded by breath­tak­ing scenery in the fresh pure air. Moun­tain bik­ing and hik­ing trails are plentiful.

Levi offers a vari­ety of places to eat, and the shops in Levi remain open all year, mak­ing Levi more than just a win­ter destination.

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2Nov/090

Thailand Economy Boosts Investment Potential

Thai­land is a beau­ti­ful and exotic coun­try, the top tourist des­ti­na­tion in Asia. Many peo­ple just regard this loca­tion as a far flung world indulged in only purely for pleasure.

How­ever the globe is grow­ing ever smaller and recent devel­op­ments there make now a bet­ter time than ever to look at Thai­land as an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity for invest­ment in prop­erty. Thailand’s econ­omy (in sym­me­try with the global mar­ket) has hit a recent down­turn, but this is going to recover very soon accord­ing to top gov­ern­ment offi­cials, mak­ing now the time to invest, and DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd. has some excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ties to do so…

The Thai gov­ern­ment are cur­rently imple­ment­ing sig­nif­i­cant mea­sures that will see long last­ing growth in the coun­try for many years to come, par­tic­u­larly in the prop­erty mar­ket, such as tax cuts for first time buy­ers and increased spend­ing. The eco­nomic cli­mate is also set to stim­u­late the pur­chase of sec­ond hol­i­day homes for the already pros­per­ous in Thailand.

These fac­tors, cou­pled with the increas­ing num­ber of tourists which flock to the des­ti­na­tion each year it is no won­der that prop­erty invest­ment is Thailand’s fastest grow­ing econ­omy and those con­sid­er­ing should not hang around too long, as the low prop­erty prices will not be around for that much longer.

DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd. has some fan­tas­tic prop­er­ties in top tourist des­ti­na­tions that are per­fect for those con­sid­er­ing a lucra­tive invest­ment with the pos­si­bil­ity for very high returns. DSR Asset Man­age­ment Ltd. has a vari­ety of beau­ti­ful vil­las, con­dos and apart­ments in the prime loca­tion of Koh Samui Island from its unspoiled moun­tain­ous jun­gles to the beach.

For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing Prop­erty Thailand

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30Jan/080

The Two Faces of Thailand’s Property Market

Liam Bai­ley takes a look at Thailand’s prop­erty invest­ment market.

Poten­tial investors who are cur­rently con­sid­er­ing an over­seas prop­erty pur­chase in Asia, will prob­a­bly have Thai­land on their short-list at the out­set, but upon look­ing into it will find that prop­erty invest­ment in Thai­land is cur­rently a two sided coin:

On the one hand Bangkok has recently been listed among the top twenty tourism des­ti­na­tions in the world, which should make a prop­erty invest­ment there a good one. Dig a lit­tle deeper how­ever and you find that cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion, — pre­vi­ously strong in Thai­land — along with all fac­tors to be con­sid­ered before invest­ing, have been detri­men­tally affected by the recent polit­i­cal tur­moil, namely the Sep­tem­ber 2006 coup.

Never the less Thai­land is still among the best Asian coun­tries for for­eign­ers to invest in, there is no inher­i­tance tax or gift tax, cap­i­tal gains tax is charged like income tax at the stan­dard rate, and for­eign­ers can own con­do­mini­ums free­hold. There are other ways for for­eign­ers to buy in Thai­land but a con­do­minium pur­chase is the eas­i­est. And even with the polit­i­cal tur­moil as it is rental yields are still around the 8% mark in top tourist des­ti­na­tion, Bangkok.

Another ris­ing star in Asia’s tourism indus­try is the Thai island of Koh Samui,which has been largely unaf­fected by tur­moil on the main­land, and where poten­tial investors will find mostly resort property.

As tourism expands on the island, and it begins to attract more of the high end mar­ket, as oppose to pri­mar­ily back-packers, these resort villa prop­er­ties can fetch yields of 10–12% quite eas­ily, and cap­i­tal appre­ci­a­tion is con­ser­v­a­tively esti­mated at around the 15%-20% mark.

Total trans­ac­tion costs are a mod­er­ate 10% — 12.3% in Thai­land, but there is a lit­tle com­pli­ca­tion over the com­pu­ta­tion of buy­ing costs; spe­cific busi­ness tax and stamp duty are paid on what­ever is higher, declared or assessed value — both par­ties must have their own solicitor.

Over­all a Thai­land prop­erty invest­ment can be a very reward­ing endeav­our, espe­cially if you are pur­chas­ing a hol­i­day home with a view to rent­ing it out when not in use.

Liam Bai­ley is media rela­tions exec­u­tive with David Stan­ley Red­fern . He runs the blogs: Emi­gra­tion Now and Emerg­ing Mar­kets.

Find out more about prop­erty Thai­land and buy­ing prop­erty in Thailand.

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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