Malaysia Scraps Property Capital Gains Tax (Reuters)
● Malaysia to scrap the real property gains tax (RPGT) on April 1 follows Government’s December decision to remove the cap on the number of houses foreigners can buy and allow borrowing from local banks.
● Move to mimic Singapore’s abolishion of tax on profits from the sale of property and whose economy has outpaced Malaysia’s for 21 of the past 30 years.

Overseas Property News

5% discount offer on first 25 apartments sold

Leading Bulgarian real estate agent, Bulgarian Dreams is pleased to announce the launch the third phase of the exclusive Windows To Paradise development located in the popular and emerging area of Balchik.

Windows to Paradise hillside location offers a select collection of studios, one and two bedroom apartments and penthouses with the majority of the properties boasting incredible sea views. Set within landscaped botanical gardens, the facilities at the scheme include several outdoor swimming pools, full spa centre with indoor pool, steam bath, sauna, Jacuzzi and children’s pool as well as a ...

Bulgarian Property, New Developments

In this our very first new development head to head. We have chosen two developments on the Island of Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands.

To get an idea of the landscape on the Island of Santiago, please click here for a satellite view.

Cape Verde Property, New Developments

This week’s Overseas Property podcast takes a look buying a retirement property overseas. The decision to retire overseas is a growing trend and with a nation of baby boomers coming up to retirement, the number of individuals and couple’s retiring abroad is on the increase, creating a whole new overseas property market sector with specific property demands. Adam Samuel is joined in podcast 24 by Chris Simmons of Saga and Dominic Whiting of Retirement Property Guide to discuss retirement property abroad and what buyers should consider when looking at purchasing property ...

Podcasts

The Royal Breeze is a pre-launch property development in Al Hamrah Village, a luxury ocean and golf retreat in Ras Al Khaimah. The strategy for tourism has been to pitch this emirate as a quiet and relaxing vacation spot to up-market tourists deciding to holiday in the Emirates but who seek a fortnight-long holiday that goes beyond just the sun, sand and the sea. RAK as it’s affectionately known is now rapidly attracting investment with the launch of several ambitious real estate mega-projects designed to develop its tourism capability.

The second emirate after Dubai to permit foreign ...

Ras Al Khaimah Property

 Online real estate is becoming more valuable. As websites increase their value year on year, having an old established website is rather like having an established shop on a high street. The longer you have been there the more people will know about you and trust that you have a good sustainable business.

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A Place in the Sun Live, an exhibition dedicated to overseas property, debuted at London’s custom built exhibition centre ExCel back in April 2005, supported by magazine spin-off A Place in the Sun Magazine, Channel 4 broadcaster of the hit TV brand A Place in the Sun and popular presenter Amanda Lamb. The Association of Event Organisers (AEO) recently ranked A Place in the Sun Live among the UK’s Top 40 consumer exhibitions and remains the UK’s biggest and best-attended overseas property show. To Win Free tickets to A Place in the Sun Live

Events and Exhibitions

Despite its French heritage, it is surprising that only 4% of Brits know that Corsica actually lies off the coast of Italy. Truly a mountain in the sea, Corsica is 5,500 square miles is an island gem offering over 600 miles of coastline whilst Monte Cinto rises some 9,000 feet as the Mediterreans highest and third largest island with deep gorges, snow-capped peaks and lofty pine forests.

Residence Vanina Park is aimed at the growing student population of Corsica. It is rare that student housing developments come on to the market in Corsica so this is a leaseback investment ...

French Property, New Developments

Highlighted in the penultimate edition of the Bulgarian Dreams podcast series, is the often overlooked summer activity potential of Bulgaria’s mountain ski resorts which offer much more than just world class skiing!

When thinking about holidays in Bulgaria, many people’s travel associations’ fall into two categories. Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast resorts of Sunny Beach, Golden Sands and Varna come to mind as typical Bulgarian summer holiday hotspots and Bulgaria’s mountain terrain attracting legions of skiing aficionados in search of cheap ski holidays. The Summer in the Mountains podcast draws attention to the many buyers who invested in a ski property in ...

Bulgarian Property

Croatia is one of the best tourism and property locations on offer, dubbed, the ‘New Italy’ it is no surprise that January’s issue of leading American tourism magazine Travel and Leisure recommended Istria amongst its must-see destinations in Croatia and the setting for the Nautica apartments in Novigrad, a pretty port town on the west coast of Istria. Istria is further north on the Croatian seaboard and could easily be mistaken for the Tuscan heartlands, with its sunny hillsides, kilometres of vineyards and charming medieval seaside towns which are relics from its 400 years under the Venetian Empire. The real Venice ...

Croatia Property, New Developments