Part II - German property – Is now the time to pile in?
3rd Nov 2006
It isn't hard to see why the mortgage market and the desire for property ownership in Germany have remained almost static for so long.
Tags: Germany Property Investment

Part I - German property – Is now the time to pile in?
31st Oct 2006
There was something different about this year’s Munich real estate expo. For anyone who’s a regular, it was pretty unmissable. For the first time, as long as I can recall, there was a significant number of German investors present.
Tags: Property Investment

As a property investor, democracy gets my vote every time...
25th Oct 2006
Neil Lewis casts a vote for democracy and warns against piling into a supposed new property hotspot without evaluating ALL the risks...
Tags: Poland Property Investment

Points of Interest – it’s not a question of when interest rates will go up, it’s just how much and when…
27th Sep 2006
The latest mortgage lending data and inflation figures cannot leave anyone in any doubt that interest rates will rise again this year, as we have long predicted. The questions that really matter are when will they rise, where will they peak and, most of all, how will the property market react?
Tags: Financing & Mortgages

Why ‘cheap’ German property will stay cheap and why ‘expensive’ Romanian property will boom...
25th Jul 2006
In 2005 – almost by accident - most of the units that Property Secrets sourced in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic cost around £50k. Last year, it seemed that most investors expected us to keep sourcing apartments in a band between £40k and £60k.But 2006 has been different.
Tags: Poland Property Investment

Poland Points the Way - or where to look for turbo-charged capital growth in any property market
2nd Jun 2006
Big institutional investors are now targeting Polish residential property - and we can learn lots from them about how to time our investments and how we can apply this
Tags: Poland Property Investment

Oh, I do like to be (invested) beside the seaside- but actually not too near!
4th May 2006
Attracted by those stories of fantastic property price growth in certain holiday destinations?Well, you're not alone.There's just one rather big problem - I call it the Achilles' Heel of holiday property investment. It's the part you never hear about from the likes of A Place in the Sun, or from those friendly smiling people at 'Ready to Buy on The Coast' or 'Holiday Investments in Spain' ....But, believe me, any serious holiday destination investor needs to be aware of the Achilles' Heel problem.
Tags: Cyprus Property Investment

Currency conundrums - or how to forget about exchange rates and sleep soundly at night -By Neil Lewis, CEO and founder
12th Apr 2006
I want to talk about currency risk because I think it causes a lot of unnecessary worry for some investors. But, first, a confession: I am absolutely hopeless at predicting whether one currency will go up or go down relative to another. And, you know what, I'm not alone. In fact, no one is really much good at it. Certainly, I've learnt that the so-called experts rarely get it right.
Tags: Financing & Mortgages