September 12, 2007
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil’s economy expanded 5.4 percent in the second quarter, boosted by big gains in the industrial and service sectors, and it appeared on track to grow nearly 5 percent overall this year, according to government figures released Wednesday.
Still, gross domestic product growth for Latin America’s largest economy in the [...]

25 September 2007
 ** NEWS FLASH **
We have just heard that Brazilian mortgages will be available to foreigners next year.  This will have a huge affect on property prices!
Reserve now - before the boom starts
Come and visit us in our London office or give us a call now! - land plots and city apartments coming soon……..

24 September 2007 

Well, we are back from Albania.  We loved it! 
The people were friendly, the scenery was amazing, the food was excellent, and the property market is really taking off.  I’m not sure about some reports I’ve seen on the country.  I expected to see masses and masses of bad construction everywhere - but this is not [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING
The Albanian economy is estimated to have grown by 5% in 2006, supported by buoyant domestic demand. This, in turn, was underpinned by a continued rapid expansion of bank credit, a surge in public investment late in the year and strong export growth. Data for industrial sales and machinery imports point to strong domestic [...]

September 2007
The level of employment in the construction material industry increased by 4.4% in the first half of the year, according to the Sector Analysis of the Brazilian Association of the Construction Material Industry (Abramat) and of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).
In June, according to data from the survey, the number of registered employees was [...]