“I read the news today, oh boy!”
If, like me, you have spent any time flicking through a half decent newspaper this morning you’ll have seen some pretty gloomy rhetoric about the growth prospects of even the strongest European economies. Strangely enough, I notice that the only economy forecast by the IMF to have higher growth next year than this is Spain [...]
Market reports disguise opportunities for investors in the ‘Flight to Quality’
There seems to have been much conflicting information published about the international property market in the last few months. I’m sensing this as an informed reader and property professional, so it’s no surprise that I’m hearing the same when I speak to casual spectators or those with a specific vested interest. Take Dubai as a [...]
Property Owners Vote For Better Collaboration
I spent several hours at the weekend in the company of over two hundred owners – many of them our customers – of properties in the fantastic Horizon Sky luxury beach resort on the Turkish coast. The owners had come together in London to debate a number of important matters concerning how their development will [...]
When did optimism become so unfashionable?
Following on from my comments last week after A Place In The Sun Live in London, another feature of the property industry which remains undiminished is the amount of comment in the media. Select Property is a regular contributor to that commentary and I was quoted in the financial press again this weekend, albeit not [...]
Some things never change, but this market isn’t one of them
It was encouraging to see a good turn out of window shoppers at A Place In The Sun Live last weekend, proving what we knew all along – that British consumers never lost their belief in property ownership, for lifestyle and investment, and will always come back to it as their preferred asset class to [...]