Tag Archive - investor
July 28, 2010
The growth in European real estate transactions continued to rise in the Q2 despite investor uncertainty over the sovereign debt crisis. Separate sets of figures from Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ both showed transaction volumes increased compared with the previous quarter. Cushman & Wakefield reported that deal volumes in the ...
July 7, 2010
France hasn't made a choice between austerity and stimulus, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Sunday, describing the French economic policy as a mix of spending cuts and measures aimed at boosting demand. The robustness of the recovery and the ability of banks to survive a second downturn was a recurring ...
July 5, 2010
Advisors need to be aware that the investors in the French leaseback market are being “dogged by sharp practice and a judicial system that has neither the ability nor the will to bring about effective redress” says Ed Stanley, a partner at law firm Elborne Mitchell. Leaseback has become a popular ...
June 29, 2010
Under pressure from anxious lenders, the French government took steps on Wednesday to help reassure markets about its creditworthiness, announcing that it would raise the retirement age and increase income taxes on the rich to help rein in its budget deficit. And the Spanish government, also facing concerned investors, proposed loosening ...
June 28, 2010
Erna Low Property is releasing 25 apartments for sale at Les Domaines de St Endreol (a Golf and Spa Resort in the South of France) including the first opportunity to acquire a leaseback property on the development. The award-winning development was established in 1992 and is made up of nine phases ...
June 24, 2010
UK-based overseas property investors who took out euro-denominated mortgages earlier this year are already seeing the benefits said overseas mortgage specialist, Conti, this week. Operations director, Clare Nessling, said this week that “even cash-rich buyers could consider taking out a euro mortgage until the exchange rate improves, at which point they ...
June 14, 2010
President Nicolas Sarkozy is struggling to convince investors he can cut France’s budget gap amid concern about the spread of Europe’s debt crisis, even as the government’s deficit narrowed for a third month in April. The central government deficit fell 22 percent to 56.2 billion euros ($66.9 billion) from 71.6 billion ...
June 11, 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are proposing a Europe-wide prohibition of the controversial practice of "naked" short selling as a way to calm the markets, according to a joint letter addressed to the head of the European Commission. "The severe turbulence observed on financial markets over recent ...
June 9, 2010
The last two months have seen a rise in the number of people looking to buy property in France with new enquiries for mortgages more than doubling in May compared with April. France is particularly appealing to UK investors at the moment because of the weakening Euro and the availability ...
June 3, 2010
France reaffirmed a longstanding call for a formal economic government of the 16-nation euro area, which has aroused German suspicions in the part of an attempt to undermine the independence of the European Central Bank. The European Commission defended to trade unionists the need for austerity measures to curb public debt ...
