Real Estate
By Joris Cataldi and Professor Robert Anthony, Anthony & Cie
When purchasing a property there are several issues that one needs to consider. Tax, future growth as well as rental income. The speculation in European property markets created a volatility into market sectors creating difficulties into choosing safe investments in stable areas. Funds invested heavily into logistics as well as residential blocks of flats. The later they tried to create positive gains by selling the apartments individually. Certain streets around Europe were redeveloped to build more high class shopping.
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Real Estate
By Paul Gambles, MBMG Group
Looking at the Bank of Thailand’s house-price index shows an unchecked 64% rise in the last ten years. But that doesn’t go anywhere near to telling the whole story.
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Real Estate
By Oltion Kaçani, Gjika & Associates Attorneys at Law
The Albanian real-estate sector has undergone significant changes and improvements in order to resolve the issues inherited from the past. Due to the legal amendments made in the last few years, Albania offers a real opportunity to invest in real estate, thus facilitating and making more reliable the entire process.
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Real Estate
By Tony Constantine, Ciuni & Panichi, Inc.
The United States’ opportunityzone programme encourages investment into what Senator Cory Booker describes as “domestic emerging markets”. The programme is a departure from traditional economic-development programmes. It provides taxpayers with the ability to redeploy unrealised gains for the purpose of revitalising distressed areas without an immediate tax burden.
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By Hed Amitai, Alex Barnes and Rich Risino, Memery Crystal LLP
April 2019 marks the completion in a step change, started in 2012, to “level the playing field” in how gains in value realised on the disposal of UK-sited real estate are taxed.
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Real Estate
By Andy McFarlane, Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP
The least of Donald Trump’s worries on his recent world tour will have been the mockery of his predictions of the impact of wind turbines on Scotland’s tourism industry, but as he arrived for a relaxing weekend at Turnberry the renewable industry’s leaders were keen to join his ever-expanding throng of critics.
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By Alejandro Fernando Toulet Lazos, Toulet & Gottfried
Mexico had an election for a new president on 1 July 2018. The undisputed winner was Mr Andrés Manuel López Obrador (‘AMLO’). AMLO is a leftist and populist who has run for, and lost, the presidency the previous two times: once in 2006 and then again in 2012. AMLO formed his own political party, named ‘Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional’ or ‘MORENA’.
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Real Estate
By Matthias Könke, AIOS GmbH
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city of Berlin and its housing market have witnessed fairly volatile developments. The years until the middle of the 1990s were euphoric, followed by a slump and stagnation until ca. 2010. Since then, prices have gone up again due to low interest rates, money inflow from other countries and the increased attractivity of Berlin in general.
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By Mario Kapp and Raffaela Lödl, KAPP & STRIMITZER Rechtsanwälte GmbH
As a consequence of the Austrian ‘intabulation principle’ the actual acquisition of a house, a plot or a freehold apartment only takes place upon the registration of the buyer in the Austrian land register. Getting there involves several key legal steps. Therefore legal advice should be obtained, especially in the following areas:
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Real Estate
By Ingo Prang, KPP Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH
The real estate market in Germany still offers opportunities compared to other European member states. Hence, investment into the German market can be quite beneficial.
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