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The international real estate market is certainly one that is booming in the last few years and is likely to continue in that way in the near future. If you are looking for property in Spain, you have probably come across an overabundance of websites and agencies that offer attractive properties in the regions around southern Europe. Whether or not you have started looking through all of these different options, it becomes clear pretty quickly that there are so many options that make it difficult to spend enough time to research.

There are a few important steps that you can take in order to start narrowing down the options before you have even begun your search for your dream home. The first step is to think broadly about location. Where exactly do you want to be? For example, if you have visited France as a child and have your heart set on returning there, limit your search to that country. Likewise, if your family is Italian and you have always dreamed of returning there and finding your roots so to speak, then you should limit yourself to Italy. The same goes for any broad location.

If you have decided that your dream home is a property in Spain, you have made the first step toward finding that dream home. However, it is also important to think about the specific location where you would like to find your new home. Not only are the Spanish countryside wide and the Spanish coastlines long, there are many different types of geographic environments available throughout the country. Perhaps you want to be located in a beautiful city, or perhaps you want to be located in a village not too far from a city. When it comes to one s dream home, each person s vision is a little different from the next person s vision.

Once you have chosen a geographic type of region, you need to do some research about where that type of region can be found. For example, if you would like your property in Spain to be near the ocean, you should do some research or you could even travel to the location to find out whether Spain s Atlantic or Mediterranean coast is more appealing to you. Perhaps while you are doing research, you will decide that the coastlines are too densely populated and decide that the mountainous region on the French border is more your style. Again, everyone s tastes vary.

Many people are looking for a second or retirement home. If the Spanish countryside is where you ultimately would like to find your dream retirement home, one good website to try is Rest Assured Properties. Specializing in luxurious homes in rural Spanish settings, the company makes the process of international home purchase a worry-free one. Visit

simplymurcia.com

for more information on buying a property in Spain.

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Submitted by: K Damian Qualter BA MBA

Why Bulgarian Residential Property increased

The increase in residential Bulgarian property prices in the recent months has brought a disgusting amount of media coverage of the market these days. You can actually read articles about their property investment in almost all daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. Real estate has become an attractive topic even to government officials, whose public statements have caused even more increased hustle around residential real estate prices.

The Bulgarian property investment market is just another free, unregulated market, where the mechanisms of supply and demand command the movement of prices up- or down. At the same time, their unique property investment market has some specific characteristics all its own, which make it an extremely unique market. Some of these characteristics include: their lack of sufficient information; a reaction lag when it is compared to the other sectors of the economy; non-standard product; lack of a mobility of properties, in addition to, buyers and sellers; and a limited number of transactions that are available in one person s lifetime.

What this means is that the smooth mechanisms of their free market economy would be influenced by all of these factors and should be seriously considered when you are analysing the property market for your investment. Any economics student these days would tell you that prices rise when either supply shrinks or the demand for something increases. What has happened on the Bulgarian real estate market this year in particular is that both supply and demand have grown significantly with demand outweighing supply and therefore leading to higher sales prices.

What is more interesting than this is what has actually caused this demand to grow at such a pace in the first place. The size of the population, their combined disposable income, availability of mortgage credits and government actions can influence demand for residential properties is directly responsible for this.

The population of Bulgaria has been decreasing slowly in recent years, but at the same time the poor economic conditions in the countryside have forced many Bulgarians to move to the bigger cities for in search of cheaper establishments. This has led to an increase in the number of potential buyers of real estate in Sofia and the bigger cities. Thanks to this the real estate market has been its most active in these markets and is expected to continue to be in the short and semi-long term.

The number of people is not a sufficient reason in itself for the increased demand for properties; the disposable income of households is an extremely important factor as well. The steady economic growth of the Bulgarian economy over the past few years has allowed some portions of Bulgarian society to be able to earn and save more money.

Disposable income of Bulgarians is even more enhanced by the availability of mortgage loans where there wasn t any before. Although interest rates are still high at 8.5 to 12.5 per cent a year, many Bulgarians have taken this opportunity to be able to enjoy a new home now rather than wait for the right amount of money to be accumulated in 10 to 15 years. The increased competition between all of the commercial banks will cause even more interest rate drops and stimulate the demand for residential properties in the future.

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By Duncan Freer

The Construction Industry operates on a global scale with many opportunities to work abroad. The developed world maintains many types of project, including continuation, decommissioning and environmental work, much of which is implemented by some of the industry’s leading companies, who are diversifying into new markets. Factors such as tourism and the continuing rise in the global population have increased the demand for housing, commercial buildings, high-rise constructions, industrial processing plants and new and improved transport infrastructures.

New markets are arising in countries with unused natural resources. Countries such as South Africa, South America and Russia are providing budding opportunities in this area, whilst countries in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Dubai are plowing billions of pounds worth of investment into housing, hospitals as well as residential and tourist developments. Other industries are having a positive effect on the construction industry; India has achieved an almost overnight success within its IT sector. As outsourcing and the off-shoring of international business have grown in conjunction with the development of this IT industry so, too, has the demand for commercial, residential and retail constructions. China is also offering substantial opportunities for jobs in construction as its changing infrastructure demands new housing and power developments.

UK qualifications are well-respected worldwide by construction recruitment organizations, offering British workers considerable opportunities to work overseas. Whilst overseas project tend to favour more experienced graduates, many multinational companies will readily take on more-recently qualified graduates into their ranks. Contracts overseas can mean long periods of time away from the UK and, in some cases, working longer hours than UK contracts stipulate. However, in these circumstances, many companies offer employees additional pay allowances and extra money to assist the costs of intermittent flights back to Britain. Many consider this to be a career for single people, as the long periods away from home and the frequent lack of facilities to cope with dependants often take a toll on married couples or those in relationships.

Construction jobs overseas require a variety of employees with a variety of skills, such as site managers, site engineers, plant engineers, electricians, quantity surveyors, structural engineers, store managers, finance personnel, personnel managers, catering staff and procurement managers. Working abroad can also present language and cultural challenges, whilst trying to oversee a large build, but this leaves extra room for graduates to use their qualifications to their best advantage.

Of course, British engineers and specialists are not confined to finding construction jobs overseas; with the advent of the 2012 Olympics in the UK. Since 2006, the Olympic Committee has been sourcing the best candidates for the required builds and competition between companies is fierce for the relevant contracts. As the Games approach, there will be more and more opportunities for qualified candidates to consider making their mark on British soil, as well as taking into account the benefits offered by working overseas. The Olympics are being heralded as a showcase for the talents of UK construction companies, which is hoped to generate further work abroad.

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