http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property Your Guide To Buying Property Abroad Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:24:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The European Union has given Spain two months to modify the now infamous “land grab laws” that have affected hundreds of British property buyers or face action in the European Court of Justice. The town planning laws at the centre of the controversy were originally introduced in the Valencia region of ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=112 Another house building scandal has hit Spain following the news that the Valencian regional government has stripped the local authorities of Catral of its planning powers amid allegations that hundreds of homes have been built illegally in the area. The countryside around Catral, a small town 25 miles south west of ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=111 Twice as many people want to move abroad in the near future according to a poll by the BBC compared to a similar poll carried out in 2003. 54% of the 1,000 British people who took part in the survey said they would consider or have considered or hope to move ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=110 The small Arabian Gulf state of Qatar has big plans for its latest real estate development, a 985 acre man-made island just off the coast from its capital, Doha. Already dubbed the Arabian Riviera, The Pearl-Qatar promises to bring a taste of Mediterranean living to the Middle East and when ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=109 Police in Spain have arrested 30 more people, including construction company owners as well as politicians, in connection with the corruption scandal that has engulfed the Andalucian resort town of Marbella in recent months. In March, the mayoress of Marbella, Marisol Yague, was arrested along with 18 other individuals including other ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=108 The island of Mauritius with its natural beauty is picture book paradise. Think lush tropical island, white sandy beaches, waterfalls, coral reefs and palm trees and you are conjuring images of Mauritius. True, not many people could place it on a map, but if you work your way down Africa’s east ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=107 Australia is facing a housing affordability crisis according to the second annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey which looks at house prices in relation to household incomes in major urban centres in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland and the UK. The survey compares median house prices to median ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=106 Property prices in New Zealand will start falling by the end of the year as the effects of higher interest rates start to kick in according to the Governor of The Reserve Bank Of New Zealand, Alan Bollard. “We’re expecting that by the end of the year prices go negative,'’ Bollard ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=104 A third of people in the UK have ambitions to retire to a place in the sun according to new research by engage Mutual Assurance, but in reality few will fulfil their dreams. engage Mutual Assurance compared the expectations of those who have yet to retire, with the experiences of those ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=103 Real estate in parts of Turkish Controlled Northern Cyprus can be bought for as little as a third or a quarter of what you would pay in the south of the island - and for good reason. The cheapest land and property in the north was left behind by the ... http://www.placeinthesun.co.uk/property/?p=102