Followers of this blog will have noticed that we have talked about student accommodation several times over the past few months. This is because students are very much in the news. In the UK, numbers are rising dramatically, fuelled the inordinate stress placed these days on academic forms of education and reinforced by recession-based anxieties. This makes [...]
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Aug
25
25
Student Halls: why we are onto a winner
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Countries, Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UKLeave a Comment
Aug
23
23
More than a golden opportunity: Agarwood/Oudh
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Countries, Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, In the Office, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UKLeave a Comment
Agarwood is such a precious commodity that its value is pegged at 1.5 time that of gold! It is not yet a household name in Western countries, but it has been highly prized for many centuries across Asia. In the Arab world, it is known as Oud (or Oudh) and is the basis for the [...]
Aug
12
12
The UK Residential Market: A New Frontier?
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Market and Economics, UKLeave a Comment
Invest in the UK Residential Market Through Your SIPP … And Beat CGT! This is another example of the new type of investment product we are promoting over this summer. Property Frontiers has secured a channel to a continuous supply of discounted residential properties across the UK market via a partnership with a UK property brokerage and [...]
Aug
12
12
An Investment for our time
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UK, USALeave a Comment
The international property market is changing, like everything else in the current economic climate, to reflect the shifting priorities of investors. This is why we are sourcing several new types of product. For example, how would you like to invest in one of the most viable investment market – a luxury hotel with occupancy of [...]
Aug
04
04
Streatlam Towers Student Halls: Planning Permission Granted!
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Current Projects, General, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UKLeave a Comment
… AND ONLY FOUR UNITS LEFT AT £45,000! This week has seen a major breakthrough with the granting of planning permission for the development of Streatlam Towers, in central Liverpool, into accommodation for students. This will be nothing like the drab, Stalinist-looking ’Halls of Residence’ or Spartan college accommodation that some of can us remember from [...]
Jul
29
29
More ‘F’ Words: Selling the Idea of Fractional (or Shared) Ownership
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UK, USALeave a Comment
The discussion of the ‘F’ word – Fractional Ownership – continues. Companies dedicated to the fractional process report that the word has no negative connotations for their clients, who are already familiar with the concept. Fractional ownership exists at many different levels – paintings, cars, wines, club memberships, etc. … Perhaps there will be fractional relationships, [...]
Jul
27
27
The F-Word: ‘Fractional’ Ownership or ‘Shared’ Ownership?
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, UK, USALeave a Comment
George Bernard Shaw once remarked that the British and the Americans are ‘divided by a common language’. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of ‘fractional ownership’. Fractional ownership has caught on well with US investors for some years now, because it makes sense. Owning a portion – otherwise known as a ‘fraction’ – [...]
Jul
21
21
Two Contrasting Products? ‘Bamblewood’ and VTC
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Countries, Current Projects, Educational, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, Project Progress, UK, USALeave a Comment
At first glance it is hard to think of two investment types more contrasting than the Village at Town Center development in Florida and the Dual Forestry Investment in Sandalwood and Bamboo. Let’s start with the Village at Town Center (VTC), a luxury condominium community in Orlando, Florida. A range of two and three-bed units [...]
Jul
15
15
Interesting Times: New Seminar Series Launched By Property Frontiers
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Countries, Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, UKLeave a Comment
We have previously referred in this blog to the phrase ‘May you live in interesting times’. It is reputedly an ancient Chinese curse, followed by a second, more powerful invocation ‘May the government be aware of you!’ Unfortunately, it seems that this is an early example of the urban myth and was coined by the [...]
Jul
08
08
Counter-Intuitive Investment
Posted By: Aidan Rankin in Countries, Current Projects, Educational, Future Projects, General, Global Property, Market and Economics, UK, USALeave a Comment
The international property market is becoming increasingly diverse – and dispersed. New markets take off, whilst others decline or stagnate. Investors, quite naturally, are seeking to spread their assets over a wider geographical area, as well as considering new commodities such as bamboo. They are spreading their nets both geographically and in the range of [...]