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Christopher Chadd

After working within the construction industry, Chris studied Real Estate Management at university and joined the Property Frontiers Team in early 2007 as a Researcher. Chris is now Project Manager and contributes a weekly blog discussing the key trends and issues in International Real Estate markets.

May
28

Buying Off Plan Properties

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Educational, General, Global PropertyLeave a Comment

Following on from our last post on buying overseas property, our Director David Cox continues with a video post on Buying Off Plan property. Is this video* David covers the following questions: (*Remember you can skip to any part of the video by clicking on the questions on the right hand side of the video) [...]

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May
21

Buying a Property Abroad

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Educational, General, Global PropertyLeave a Comment

A while back we posted a couple of videos in a series on Overseas Property. In conjunction with Bizzibox, our Director David Cox was involved in 10 seperate videos that took you through every step of buying a property overseas and the potential pitfalls you should look out for. In amongst a company restructuring we [...]

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Mar
24

Kiara 3 Update

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Malaysia, Project ProgressLeave a Comment

Kiara 3 Construction Update Kiara 3 is scheduled for completion and handover in Q4 2010. The development is currently built up to around the 23rd floor and the basic main structure will be completed within the next few weeks. Please see latest construction photographs below. Malaysia Economic Update Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy is estimated to [...]

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Feb
22

Property Sale Price Increase of 12% for 2009

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global PropertyLeave a Comment

The UK market saw a 12% increase in property prices during 2009. This is especially impressive if one considers the downturn of 2008 when the sale price dropped an average of 20%. The year also ended with competitive pressure amongst buyers and investors as more than 8 applicants registered for each new instruction that entered [...]

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Feb
19

The £100,000 Question

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global PropertyLeave a Comment

Quick post on this beautiful Friday afternoon. What would you do with a £100,000 and where would you invest it? The Financial Times have asked 10 property industry insiders this hypothetical question. David Cox, one of our Directors was asked to give his thoughts… This is just one of 10 interviews and I recommend clicking [...]

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Feb
18

Lyndsey Smith – What do I know?

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global PropertyLeave a Comment

As one of the smaller cogs in the PF machine, I can state that I am not a consultant, nor do I deal with actively sourcing and researching our projects or provide the diligent and substantial after-sales care that is tended to our clients. As a result, I am the member of the team that [...]

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Feb
17

Market Guest Post – Albania

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global Property, Market and EconomicsLeave a Comment

Many thanks to www.albania-estate.com for their guest contribution to our blog. In a new feature I will looking for local agents all over the world who can give me the inside scoop on what’s happening on the ground in and around the world’s cities and towns. Albania Estate are Albania specialists who have kindly provided [...]

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Feb
05

Jonathan’s Market Commentary

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global PropertyLeave a Comment

Guys! Further to my postings last week, I wanted to keep you all up-dated with respect to those fragmentary lose ends before the latest news hits this weekends property press… I’ll begin with the Wheeler tribunal, hot stuff if you have any interest in Brixton PLC, now Segro PLC, or alternatively if you’re keen to [...]

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Jan
31

Jonathan’s Market Analysis – UK GDP

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Market and Economics, UKLeave a Comment

Readers, after posting my first blog yesterday I’m feeling more and more like a hybrid of the BBC’s Robert Peston and CNN’s Richard Quest… a delightful thought. Anyway, after this mornings Office of National Statistics upbeat review of official GDP estimates, I thought I’d throw together a brief commentary on current economic events. It goes [...]

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Jan
26

Jonathan’s Market Round Up

Christopher Chadd
Posted By: Christopher Chadd in Global Property, Market and Economics, UKLeave a Comment

OK guys this is my first foray into the insightful world of the PF blog, brace yourself for regular – and not so regular – postings on the hot topics doing the rounds in the industry’s press. I wanted to open my account by providing readers with an intuitive review of the 2010 market forecasts [...]

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