Archive for the 'Property Sector' Category

Valencia region
January 2010 saw average overall property prices in Spain rise for the first time in 24 months, albeit at a very modest 0.6 per cent. Within this trend, the Valencia region was among the better performers in the country, registering an increase of 2.2 per cent on the month before. It heralds the beginnings of a gradual recovery in a region whose property market is blessed with optimal diversity that includes important primary, secondary and commercial sectors.

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The fifth edition of Villae International, the elegant publication of the European Real Estate Network (EREN) is out now. With stylish design and quality editorial that reflects the nature of the EREN organisation itself, Villae offers an appealing focus on the good things in life that invites you to sit back and enjoy its beautifully laid out pages and engaging prose.

The current edition, as ever, features luxury properties from the most idyllic of spots, news on EREN initiatives and the successful annual conference held in Estoril, Portugal. Villae, however, also contains such non-vocational features as culture, fine dining, travel, motoring and similar pursuits of pleasure and refinement.

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The Palacio Hotel, Estoril’s famous classic venue, played host to the annual meeting of the European Real Estate Network (EREN) this September past. Just as autumn was setting in across Europe, the 20 member agents from nine countries arrived to the welcome sun and mild climate of the Estoril coast – still the original Portuguese Riviera.

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Success stories from 2009

Though the current period can generally be described as a recession that has touched most of us in some way or another, we are happy to report that it’s not all doom and gloom. For EREN and its members 2009 contained some notable highlights that marked a distinct improvement over 2008 and the early beginnings of a recovery…

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Rhode Island, long established as the home of some of the finest real estate in the world, seems to be in the vanguard of the revival of the luxury property market. Its otherwise buoyant market dropped off in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis of late 2008, but the early signs point to 2010 as the year in which this region regained its dynamism.

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There is a saying that proclaims that it is impossible to discern the road ahead clearly until one acknowledges the previous path taken.

If this is truly the case, then Rimontgó has acted wisely by compiling a beautifully designed book that details the company’s history, from 1890 when Mateo Ribes Simó, great grandfather of the Ribes brothers, set up a business to export fruit to different parts of Europe, to the breathtaking international properties that currently comprise its enviable portfolio.

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Rhode Island has been inextricably linked with the music industry since 1959, when Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Pete Seeger, George Wein and Albert Grossman organised the first Newport Folk Festival.

This iconic musical gathering has been instrumental in launching the careers of a number of artists, most notably the legendary Joan Baez, who appeared at the very first festival as an unannounced guest of Bob Gibson and went on to shape the future of American folk music as much as her erstwhile lover, Bob Dylan. (more…)