Top 5 Long Term International Property Investment Destinations

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Top 5 Long Term International Property Investment Destinations

Overseas Property Mall, Jul 01, 2009

When it comes to overseas property investment there are several choices to be made. What type of investment a person makes depends on what they want from the property, and the type of investment they are making also affects the destinations they will consider.

If a person wants a holiday home that will pay for itself in rental income when the buyer is not using it, then that person is a holiday home investor. They must choose a property suitable to accommodate them and those they holiday with, in a destination that they would like to spend their holidays in, which also has a strong rental market.

Then there are pure-investors, which are then split into short-term investors and long-term investors.

Short-term investors must choose a property that is going to appreciate rapidly in value, in a location where there will be plenty of people to sell to 2-3 years down the line. For this they will probably be looking for a strong and/or growing internal housing market.

Long-term investors have a much wider choice; because, failing some catastrophic event, practically every property is going to appreciate in value over the long-term. The question is by how much?

For long-term investors it is primarily about economic growth and stability. It is growth in the economy that really pushes up house prices, and also increases internal demand for housing and second homes, which in turn provide the exit strategy.

Brazil

In Brazil’s case it is simple. Brazil is among the top 5 largest food exporters in the world, with the world’s second largest cattle stocks, and is also the second largest exporter of meat. On top of that Brazil’s services sector is growing rapidly as are the hospitality, construction, tourism and health tourism sectors

The world’s leading analysts have predicted that Brazil will be the fifth largest economy in the world in the next 5-10 years. Yet property is currently a lot less expensive than in the world’s other leading economies — especially if you look at houses on the internal market. As Brazil grows into one of the largest economies, property will grow in value till prices are similar to those in the other major economies, at which point growth will slow to the established market average of 10% per annum.