Category: Property
One of the biggest debates in Turkey is if foreigners should be allowed to buy property in Turkey or not and whether there should be a limitation on those interested in purchasing property here. Indeed, many foreigners have purchased property in Turkey in recent years by using special purpose companies or trusted Turkish friends. The [...]
TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector: Taking a closer look at global real estate each month. This month, TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector investigates property scams. Scams have evolved in recent years thanks to the internet. As tourists are tricked into renting houses that aren’t on the market and unfinished resorts fail to deliver on fraudulent promises, how can you [...]
Article 35 of the Land Registry Law outlines the legal framework for the acquisition of real estate in Turkey by foreign nationals. In case a foreigner wants to own property in Turkey, the first condition to apply is the reciprocity rule. Reciprocity basically means granting the same rights to the citizens of a country as [...]
Some may have feared that the global economic downturn would have put pay to the overseas property industry as we know it but as International Estate Agent Today (or IEAT as it’s fondly known) has proved, this is far from the case. Delivering not only daily overseas property news but a variety of industry expert [...]
Robin Haynes, MD of FSA regulated and award-winning Currency Index, offers his expert comment on today’s quantitative easing by the Bank of England: “The Bank of England’s £50bn extension to its quantitative easing (QE) programme today is not good news for overseas property buyers. Injecting more money into the economy has the effect of diluting [...]
Cape Verde has catapulted back into the top 10 in the TheMoveChannel.com’s latest Top of the Props report. While Spain and the USA continue to compete for the number one slot, the tiny islands saw a surge of interest at the start of 2012, jumping 18 places to become the seventh most popular destination in [...]
Robin Haynes, MD of Award-winning Currency Index looks back at exchange rates in January 2012 and the headlines likely to be affecting rates in February for buyers of overseas property. For buyers of property in the Eurozone, the ongoing sovereign debt crisis has provided the best exchange rates since October 2010, with the Euro exchange [...]
Turkish intellectual property law, Sometimes lawyers feel that all those violations experienced by their clients will never touch them. This is certainly not the case. It happens to us, too. Just recently, I was wandering in a bookshop, and I checked the legal books section, and what did I find but a legal guidebook for foreigners [...]
With average property prices in England and Wales currently listed as £233,139*, we look at what you can get for your money in the UK and abroad. This figure has only risen 1.5% over the past year showing a very static domestic market compared with a 16.4% annual price increase seen 3 years ago. London [...]
Recent findings have shown that around 1 in 6 Turkish properties sold to foreign buyers were bought by Brits in the last two months. The Land Registry Directorate General’s most recent statics highlight that 113,687 properties across Turkey are now owned by foreigners, an increase of 2,487 property sales made on September’s 111,200 figures. Further [...]
Property acquisition for foreigners
One of the biggest debates in Turkey is if foreigners should be allowed to buy property in Turkey or not and whether there should be a limitation on those interested in purchasing property here. Indeed, many foreigners have purchased property in Turkey in recent years by using special purpose companies or trusted Turkish friends. The [...]
Inspector investigates property scams
TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector: Taking a closer look at global real estate each month. This month, TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector investigates property scams. Scams have evolved in recent years thanks to the internet. As tourists are tricked into renting houses that aren’t on the market and unfinished resorts fail to deliver on fraudulent promises, how can you [...]
Prostate cancer is usually slow growing
Prostate cancer is a cancerous growth which forms in the reproductive gland of the male called the prostate. It is possible for the cancer cells to spread to the lymph nodes and into bones. This type of cancer can cause pain whilst urinating and may cause erectile dysfunction. Prostate cancer is usually slow growing, but [...]
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]