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 Bulgaria, initially resigned to just using it during the winter months but who are now returning for a summer break, pleasantly surprised by its potential as a base for active summer pursuits. Continue reading ‘Bulgaria podcast highlights summer in the mountains’

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 is only a 45 minute Continue reading ‘Nautica apartments in Novigrad, 5 star marina property in Istria’

The reason savvy investors are buying property in Morocco is that it has one thing in common with popular overseas property hotspots, world-wide mass appeal. Morocco’s metamorphosis from dingy North African backwater to classy European getaway has hit home with travel headlines waxing lyrical over it’s glamourous resorts, mysterious cultural delights but above all as a newly discovered exotic winter sun destination at off-season prices.

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Polaris World Spain, Murcia – Finally John Anthony from Ashford Middlesex did it, he packed his bags and went to Polaris World in Spain. After much procrastination and all the adverts on TV he thought let’s take a look for ourselves.

One night in a five star hotel and a guided tour is, on reflection, not too much of an ordeal in fact I have to say it was not really an ordeal at all but a rather a very pleasant break. It was interesting to see first hand what’s going on. It is without doubt a huge project and now well under way with the first development “Mar Menor” already open and phase one completely sold out. I guess the first thing I learned is that Polaris World is not one big development but rather 6 big developments all located within 15 minutes drive of each other and here they are: Continue reading ‘Our trip to Polaris World Spain - an independent review’

Do you love Golf or Property, what about a combination?

Heralded as “the first exhibition dedicated to golf property”, the Golf Homes Worldwide show will be held on 17th & 18th March 2007 at the East Sussex National Golf Resort & Spa, a location well suited to a market whose affluence and influence in undoubted in the world of property development today. Taking place in Uckfield, just 30 mins from Gatwick airport, admission is free to all visitors.

Show founder Gerard Larkin explains, “With more and more agents and developers aiming their new products squarely at the golfing fraternity… the aim is to provide quality holiday and retirement property investment specifically at buyers motivated to invest particularly in golf property overseas.”

Golf Homes Worldwide is designed to bring together a wide selection of agents and developers offering golf and golf related property from a host of international destinations which include Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Caribbean, Cyprus, Turkey, South Africa, Kenya, Dubai, Florida, France, Portugal and Spain including the Balearic and Canary Islands, as well as independent legal, financial and investment experts. With all exhibition space sold out to a hand selected range of over 53 exhibitors ensuring a varied showcase of projects, should help to ensure the show’s success.

Nubricks have been invited down to podcast with visitors attending the show, so we shall see you there!

For further information about Golf Homes Worldwide please call 01424 777852 or visit www.golfhomesworldwide.co.uk.

Property for sale in Slovenia, particularly Slovenia ski resort property should receive a favourable price boost as accessibility to Maribor, Slovenia’s second largest city and gateway to the nearby Pohorje Mountains improves thanks to Irish carrier Ryanair’s first foray into the Balkan country accompanying Easyjet who have been flying from London Luton to Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana since May 2004 when Slovenia joined the European Union.

Bringing Europe’s biggest discount airline route destinations total to 96 airports in 25 countries. In 2007, Ryanair expects to carry more than 42 million passengers on 454 routes between 24 European countries and as part of its plans for further expansion with $700 million spent on ten new aircraft, with the aim of adding 50 new routes all over Europe in the coming months. These new routes will provide a massive boost to local economies all over Europe with increased visitor numbers and give passengers greater travel opportunities. Tickets are initially on sale for 1p plus tax and the London Stansted -Maribor route will begin thrice weekly operations on June 5 and will carry 40,000 passengers in the first year of operation.

Dubbed the Cut-Price Alps in a recent Sunday Times article which profiles a
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After a short break, the Nubricks Overseas Property Podcast series is back. We began Series One, talking to a whole host of overseas property professionals and industry insiders with the aim of recording their take on the prospects and trends affecting a variety of international property markets.

In Series Two, we want to get to grips with the reality of being an overseas property buyer and look beyond the marketing hype. Our first podcast in this series revisits the theme of Fly to Let, which takes the concept of buy to let and takes it beyond domestic borders to see if the growing trend for overseas property investment is all its cracked up to be. Continue reading ‘Fly to Let Guide Overseas Property Podcast with Peter Conradi and Matt Havercroft’

January 2007 monthly Global Property Hotspots Report from currency exchange specialists HiFX is out this week and suggests that old habits die hard with 29% of HiFX’s enquires related to a property purchase in France continuing to top the list of country destinations for currency exchange queries related to purchase of a property abroad. Closely followed in second place by Spain at 26%, together they are the only two countries which managed double digit enquiry figures, no other country was able to generate enquiries above single figures or less.

These findings suggest that despite overseas property news hype over new emerging markets and their potential, both of the property markets in Spain and France continue to have mainstream buyer appeal. This report also tallies with the Association of International Property Professionals ‘The year in international property, 2006’ report which showed that Brits spent 20 billion pounds on international real estate investments in 2006. Over half of UK overseas property buyers bought in countries they already know and are comfortable with from either having been on holiday there or learnt the language at school. 31.6% of UK buyers choose Spain for their homes overseas whilst 18.9% selected France as their property buying location. French property buyers are often well-heeled investors seeking a rural retreat while those buying a property in Spain choose one of its many Costas for a home in the sun.

To further compound the evidence, property research from Scenari Immobiliari Outlook for 2007, revealed Spain enjoyed the highest increase in real estate turnover in Europe last year, showing a growth of eight per cent in 2006, compared with 3.9 per cent in Europe as a whole.

There is little doubt that in the future, property demand for France and Spain will continue to be strong but demand for property in Bulgaria and the USA is not far behind in part due to the appeal of lower property prices.