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We sample a bit of Red (Hot) Leicester before rocking the casbah...
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As I promised last week, our focus has been strongly on the UK market this week with a host of articles covering a range of buy to let and property investment topics. Of course, we haven't turned our back on Europe and the rest of the world either, so there's something for everyone!
It's not just our daily articles either - we have a range of new and upcoming titles to add to our publishing range also addressing both the UK and European property investment markets.
Plus a lot of other news to get through!
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UK Property Investment // CEE Property Investment
Investment Property // Books & Reports // Online // Other News
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Article of the Week
 Red (Hot) Leicester - with 12% price growth in a year plus a vibrant rental market, Leicester demands investor attention
 Once famous for little more than some very nice cheeses and the birthplace of Gary Lineker, Leicester has gone from a warm-speck to a glowing hotspot on the UK property investment map.
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In Brief
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Article of the Week
 Rock the casbah! Morocco is being heavily hyped to property investors, but is it all just hot air..?
With a sympathetic tax regime and big ecological development plans, the tourist hotspots of Morocco are being promoted as areas of great opportunity for UK investors. Investment hotspots...or empty hype? Tony Booth takes a look...
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In Brief
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 PS FDI Monitor - June 2007
A round up of the Foreign Direct Investment across Central & Eastern Europe this month reveals the biggest winner to be Poland, while Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria also receive siginificant investment...
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Property Secrets Investor Events
The proposed Investor Evening on the South Coast, scheduled for July 5th, has unfortunately had to be postponed to a later date.
However, you can view all our upcoming Investor Evenings and events on our Investment Events page, where you can also pre-register for any of these events, letting us know you wish to attend.
Please keep an eye on this page if you are interested in meeting our experts and Investment Brokers face to face to discuss CEE property investment and learn more about the markets in which we operate, as well as discover the shows and exhibitions we'll be attending.
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L A K E V I E W
Sczcecin, Poland
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» Basement level prices with an average of £930/sqm. Units starting at £37,006
» A third tier city with a massive housing deficit of 20,000 units - over 50% capital growth expected before completion in Q4 2008
» An average discount of 12% to market valuation. This equates an average discount per unit of £7,568
» Prime suburban location overlooking the Oder River and one of the largest lakes in Poland - Dabie Lake
Lake View offers investors a great opportunity to benefit from high returns and to enter a fast growing property market in Poland. The development is located right next to one of the largest lakes in Poland – Dabie Lake and just outside the city centre of Szczecin, a rapidly growing third tier city.
The first phase of this development was completely sold out within 12 months of launch showing massive demand for housing in the area. The developer is now interested in attracting foreign investors for the second phase.
The average price of PLN5,254 / sqm (£930), which is independently valued at 5,894 (£1,043) is much cheaper than other similar comparable cities such as Gdansk where prices are around PLN6,500 / sqm (£1,150/sqm) for new builds. Szczecin offers similar great capital growth potential with much lower prices.
This development is due for completion in Q4 2008 which gives you over 16 months of price growth. The higher affordability and the demand-supply gap of 20,000 units means that more than 50% price growth is anticipated before completion.
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Also available: Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Coming Soon: Latvia, Macedonia, Turkey
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NEW TITLES COMING SOON
What To Do When It All Goes Pear-Shaped!
What to Do When It All Goes Pear-Shaped! is actually a guide we hope you’ll never need to use – although we hope you read it and consider yourself better armed because of it.
When difficulties strike, especially legal difficulties, knowledge is essential. Why? Because knowledge can save you money. Get things right first time and the chances are you will avoid wasting money AND time running down blind alleys.
As Churchill said, "Jaw, jaw is better than war, war."
In the context of landlord and tenant, we are using Churchill’s words to refer to the fact that negotiation and persuasion is always preferable to legal recourse – war!
In other words, try all the gentle persuasion stuff, but if it doesn’t work and you really need your tenants to vacate, the stick you need to be carrying is knowledge of the law and what it says about the process of getting those intransigent tenants out.
Welcome to the world of legal niceties.
Property Tax Secrets 2008
- Updated commentary on the 2007 Budget
- NEW: Corporation tax and local taxes are included in the tax basics information
- Common tax blunders - and how to avoid them
- Trusts, SIPPs and pensions
- NEW: Non-residential property including business lets, holiday lets, business premises, VAT and Construction Industry Scheme register
- NEW: Why investing overseas is a good idea, the basics, tax planning and examples of investing in Cyprus and New Zealand
- NEW: Top 10s of fighting the tax investigation, getting the basics right and tax deductions
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Alongside our new Investment Events page, we have some exciting new changes to our category pages - that includes all the country pages such as UK Property and Poland Property - AND the Topics pages such as Buy To Let and Property Development.
These changes, due to be rolled out over the next few weeks, will improve our key pages, making them far more useful to you, providing key investment advice and analysis in an easy to understand and easily navigated manner. We'll keep you up to date as these improvements come online, but do keep checking back with us to see what other additions we've made to the site as we strive as hard as ever to give you everything you need for successful property investment.
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Manage Your Account
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Communicate, communicate, communicate...
Regular users of our Discussion Forums will know that we're putting a lot of effort into improving our communication with our members and, especially, those who have invested through us in the high growth markets and below market value developments we offer.
Over the last week or so, our Investment Director Richard Davies and his team of brokers, alongside our dedicated Client Services Team, have been calling as many of our investors as they can to discuss how their investments are going, address any concerns they may have and learn what YOU wish us to be doing in the coming months.
Only by talking to you, our valuable members and investors, can we move forward together, improving not only the services we provide but the relationship we have with you. We know that if Property Secrets is to continue to grow and to provide you with the best investment opportunities, the best research and analysis and the best advice and opinion available - no matter where in the world, home or abroad, your interests lie - that this is something we must do and must continue to do.
I can assure you, everyone at Property Secrets will be striving to do this and I hope you will begin to see and feel our relationship with you grow and strengthen over time.
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That's all for this week. Happy investing!
Cheers
Chief Executive Officer
Property Secrets
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