Beware of Investing With the Masses
Date: 05/02/2008Saturday, May 3, 2008
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There are more than 24,000 condos listed for sale in Miami, according to the Florida Association of Realtors. They say that is a five-year inventory...but with another 19,000 units coming online in 2008, it seems like it’ll be closer to 10 years before that market reaches equilibrium again.
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Check out This Beach View
Date: 05/01/2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Uruau, Brazil
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Every time I take a trip near a coast, no matter what country I’m in, I try to see what type of beach house I can buy for $100,000. These days, it’s getting hard to find any type of house near the beach for that price.
But because the cost of land is low in northeast Brazil, and the cost of construction so affordable, you can buy a lot and build your own beach home here for less than $100,000.
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Off the radar for Americans: Beachfront lots for $17,500 on Brazil’s Northeast coast
Date: 04/29/2008
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Invest in a Piece of Italian History…From $31,000
Date: 04/29/2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Alberobello, Italy
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Small, conical, dry-stone-roofed houses, or trulli, cover the hill like barnacles on a turtle’s shell. The Lord of the Rings is what first springs to mind when you see Alberobello in Puglia’s Itria Valley, between the Adriatic and Ionian seas.
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High Rental Returns on Your Italian Sea-view Apartment
Date: 04/28/2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Bevagna, Italy
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San Pietro in Bevagna at night in the low season is not a place to get your pulse racing. At first sight, you might even be tempted to turn around and head back to the busy town of Manduria just a few miles north, as there are few shops open and fewer people on the street to give you directions. My friend Annette and I spent some time trawling the deserted main road of San Pietro looking for a hotel before the welcoming lights of Hotel Byzantine came into view.
Read OnThe Truth About Investing in Panama City
Date: 04/25/2008Saturday, April 26, 2008
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As world real estate markets settle out from years of rapid appreciation, rental yields are one way to continue to diversify your property investment portfolio.
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