Oxstones Investment Club™By Ronan McMahon and Margaret Summerfield Lately, the credit rating agencies haven’t been doing much for International Living’shome country of […]
Perfect Climate, Low Property Prices
By Lee Harrison, International Living, I’ve never seen anything like Medellín, Colombia. It has everything I want in a second […]
Construction industry in Russia sees long-awaited upsurge
The Russian construction sector finally posted some healthy growth figures in the second half of the year. In July, a […]
Chinese city takes big step toward regulating private loans
From Reuters, (Reporting by Fayen Wong; Editing by Kim Coghill) The Chinese city of Wenzhou, an entrepreneurial city in the eastern […]
House Is Gone but Debt Lives On
provided by Joseph Reilly lost his vacation home here last year when he was out of work and stopped paying […]
Decoding the Wide Variations in House Appraisals
By PAUL SULLIVAN, NY Times, I RECENTLY decided to refinance a condominium my wife and I owned in Florida and quickly […]
Construction industry in Kazakhstan fostered by government-initiated programmes
The construction industry suffered more than most areas of the Kazakh economy as a result of the global financial crisis […]
Cement markets in CIS countries continue to grow
With an 11% growth in cement consumption in 2010 and a further 12% growth expected for 2011, cement producers in […]
A Property Empire for $45,000
By Adrian Leeds, International Living, This is a true story. I was lucky, not smart, when I bought my first […]
To Rent or Buy? The Financial Issues
When making the decision either to rent or buy a place to live, there are two broad categories of factors […]