Prime property in Europe is no longer driven by fundamentals and looks expensive, warned speakers at the launch of IPD's pan-European Property Fund Index.
The village of Courbefy caused a stir recently when it was put up for sale. All of it. For £275,000. But it's not just in France that you can buy a whole hamlet: villages in need of an owner are popping up all over the globe. If purchasing a house is simply not enough, here are five villages currently for sale, from abandoned resorts in France to ancient stone farms in Croatia.
Francis Ford Coppola has been a hotelier for almost 20 years with properties in Belize, Guatemala and New Orleans. Now, the filmmaker and winemaker best known for his Godfather trilogy has finally opened a hotel in Italy. Palazzo Margherita, located in Coppola's ancestral home of Bernalda in the region of Basilicata, opened for business on March 1.
Russians no longer biggest purchasers of property as Italians seek safe haven from debt crisis at home
In a troubled world, we gain solace from spiritual uplift and physical beauty. Few places have the ability to touch the heart and move minds like Venice.
While investor appetite rose dramatically towards the end of 2011, the level of distressed properties* coming to the market is set to keep on rising globally, according to RICS.
UK buyers make up the second biggest group of buyers in Italy, according to Gate-Away.com, Italy's number one property portal for non-Italian buyers, which analysed its data for 2011.
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