In Nubricks Overseas Property Podcast 21, our final podcast for 2006, Adam Samuel is joined in cyberspace by Amy Bohutinsky, the Director of Communications for Zillow.com, a real estate website which is empowering US home buyers and sellers and is transforming the real estate business as we know it.

The way we search for property is changing on a daily basis with new tools and information to make the process easier and faster for the consumer. Since early 2006, Zillow.com has grown from strength to strength utilising up to 10 years of historical housing data to empower Americans to make informed ...

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Yesterday saw the start of the Dubai Shopping Festival, 45 days of shopping madness and deals galore.

So what is the Dubai Shopping festival?

The Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), known in Arabic as ‘Layali Dubai’, was first started in February 1996 by the Dubai government as purely a retail event aimed to promote trade in Dubai. Since then it has become an annual shopping, entertainment, and cultural extravaganza that continues to promote tourism in Dubai and draws people from around the world each year.

On February 15, 1996, the travel industry in the Middle East heralded the beginning ...

Dubai Property

The Mont-Tremblant alpine resort sits the heart of The Laurentians, a mountain range located some 90 minutes from Montréal in the Canadian Province of Québec.  At cost of over $1.5 billion, Intrawest, whose reputation as developer of world class playground destination resorts sculpted The Trembling Mountain resort into some of the most incredible natural terrain in Canada to offer a touch of Europe and making it the #1 Ski Resort in Eastern North America as voted for the ninth consecutive year by readers of Ski magazine.

Chateau Beauvallon enjoys a special place in Mont-Tremblant history as an important ...

Canada Property, New Developments, Ski Property

In Dubai, size matters and here companies actively vie to out do one another with the next big thing. From seven star hotels to the largest billboard, the biggest mall and the soon to be tallest tower (Burj Dubai), these gargantuan projects are all part of slick marketing campaign designed to transform Dubai from oil rich to tourist super power. In the hope of getting the public’s attention, these one of a kind achievements are paramount in the sea of advertising that is the Dubai property market.

Arriving early (very early) into Dubai airport, we are greeted with rain, a surprise when one considers those year ...

Dubai Property, Overseas Property News

Situated to the South-West of Paris (less than 15 km from the city centre), Les Academiades De Sevres meets the modern day needs of the French students and professionals alike with contemporary design and top quality facilities. A student property investment opportunity not to be missed.

Following on from our post on the Paris property market highlighting the advantages of investing in property in Paris and in particular managed French student residences, which can be considered one of the safest forms of investments around given that the existing student population of Paris lies at ...

City Property, French Property, New Developments

In the study which formed the basis for Channel 4′s 20 best places to make money, Romania ranked as the top property investment country in Europe over the next ten years, offering over 400% return on investment translating to a very healthy 17.8% return annually. In mid-October 2006, Knight Frank produced their European Residential Markets report forecasting upward capital growth in overseas property hot spots in 2007 and which reported that Romania was likely to become a strong property investment hotspot contender for 2007, being one of eight European countries forecast for 12.5 per cent capital value growth in 2007. Knight Frank predicted significant ...

City Property, New Developments, Romania Property