Australia Forum

The British Minister for Europe has hit out at Spain for failing to help its beleaguered property market after visiting expats who face having their homes demolished. After seeing for himself the plight of British expats who could lose their properties in the south east of Spain after authorities declared they were built illegally, Chris Bryant said there ap […]

Millions of British expats are eligible to vote in the forthcoming general election and are being urged to make sure they can by the Conservative political party which is hoping to defeat the ruling Labour party. They include people who have been on an electoral role in the UK in the last 15 years and those who were aged [...] […]

Expats might want to re-think their position regarding where their legal domicile might lie after a high profile case found in favour of the taxman against a British entrepreneur who still had a home and asset interests in the UK. The Court of Appeal in London ruled that millionaire and Seychelles resident Robert Gaines-Cooper was liable to pay UK [...] […]

Residential property prices in Turkey are stabilising and a credit rating upgrade is expected to increase interest in a country that has managed to avoid the worst excesses of the global economic downturn, it is claimed. Officials real estate price figures are hard to come by but the regular monthly index from REIDIN.COM gives the best indication of what is […]

A property investor has been awarded a refund for an office unit he bought in a project that is 20 months behind schedule after taking the developer to court. British businessman Ron Oakeley bought two offices in a building in Dubai's Business Bay that was to be named after the former Formula One racing driver Niki Lauda. The proposed Niki Lauda Twin To […]

Residential property prices in Australia have made a strong start this year, defying the threat of rising interest rates although a new survey indicates they are getting too high for first time buyers. Melbourne and Adelaide are leading the surge, recording increases of up to 4.3% in January while nationally real estate prices grew 1.8% during the first mont […]