By Scott Picken on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dear Potential Offshore Investor
Napoleon said, “Information was nine tenths of any battle.” The challenge is do you have the right information, are you choosing the right partners, making the right investments and most importantly asking the right questions?
1. Information – like water, the right information makes you finically healthier, but the wrong information is like [...]
By Scott Picken on Sunday, February 14, 2010
House prices in January rose by 0.7% Page 4
The average price of all residential property transactions completed in England & Wales in January 2010 was 0.7% higher than in December. This is the ninth month in succession in which AcadHPI has increased on a monthly basis.
Annual price increase is 5.4% Page 4
On an [...]
By Justin Clarke on Thursday, October 29, 2009
The fact that I am writing this blog and you are engaged in reading it shows that we are still infatuated by property and real estate investment. You may think of it as an affliction, but it is in our nature to look for opportunities and try to employ our capital at the right time, [...]
By Scott Picken on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Click here to download the recorded presentation
Scott
Picken, CEO from International Property Solutions (IPS) runs through everything in the Australian Property
market and we also have Richard Dunn, Oz Invest’s Acquisition Manager,
live from Australia (3:30am in the morning) to tell us exactly what is
happening in the property market.
Richard goes through some very exciting opportunities in the pipeline, [...]
By Scott Picken on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Watch the video – http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=875432
Go to www.ipsinvest.com for more opportunities in Australia.
By Emma Thelwell, ninemsn Money
Property prices across Australia are expected to grow by as much as 23 percent over the next three years, as upgraders and investors pile back
into the market.
Low interest rates and a shortage of affordable housing, coupled with growth in rental [...]
By Scott Picken on Saturday, October 10, 2009
House prices in September rose by 0.6%
The average price of all residential property transactions completed in England & Wales in September 2009 was 0.6% higher than in August. This is the fifth month in succession in which we have seen positive, though modest, growth in house prices.
Prices are now 5.6% lower than a year ago
[...]
By Scott Picken on Saturday, October 10, 2009
Australias property market has defied the downturn and market conditions look healthy compared with international markets.
The last time RP Datas Property Pulse commented on international markets was about this time last year in response to speculation that Australias housing market would follow the same downwards trend as the US and UK. At that time we [...]
By Scott Picken on Friday, October 9, 2009
Australia’s property market has avoided a major slump but must now see a rise in supply to avoid a surge in prices, one of the country’s most senior economists has said.
Head of economic analysis department at the Reserve Bank of Australia Tony Richards noted: “Over the past five years, housing prices have risen less rapidly [...]
By Scott Picken on Friday, October 9, 2009
The value of residential development land in the UK has risen for the second quarter in a row but prices are still almost 50% below their peak of 2007, according to the latest research.
Urban land values rose by 1.1% and greenfield sites by 1.6% over the three months to the end of September, the Knight [...]
By Scott Picken on Wednesday, September 9, 2009
According to the Australian Bureau of statistics, the average growth accross the top 8 Australian cities is 4.2% for the last quarter.
ESTABLISHED HOUSE PRICES
Quarterly Changes
Preliminary estimates show the price index for established houses for the weighted average of the eight capital cities increased 4.2% in
the June quarter 2009.
There were price rises in all capital cities [...]
