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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou hold a press conference after a meeting in Berlin on March 5, 2010. With Greece under more pressure to cut costs in dealing with its crippling debt crisis, Germany has called for the creation of a European equivalent to the International Monetary Fund.

International Real Estate House Hunting in ... Hungary
 
A FIVE-BEDROOM HOUSE ON LAKE BALATON 
 280,000 EUROS ($355,000)

   Real estate professionals in Dubai are waiting for a potential exodus of UK residents desperate to escape UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s new 50% tax rate for individuals earning over £150,000 (AED 900,000) which will come in to force in April 2010 affecting tens of thousands of UK professionals. “Under the new UK tax rules, somebody with a personal income in excess of £200 [ ... ]

 
 Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- London’s commercial real-estate market has led a rebound from the credit crisis and global recession, according to CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.

LONDON—The one-bedroom co-op apartment is only a short walk from Hyde Park, and it boasts high ceilings and a purely decorative balcony.Yours for a mere $1.5 million. It seems quite a high price, especially for a property whose ground lease will eventually expire, leaving you with nothing.If you're looking for something bigger, you can get a duplex with two bedrooms in the center of town ... for [ ... ]

   By ANITA LIKUS  Prague is beginning to show the stirrings of what might be renewed interest among investors in buying commercial real estate in Central and Eastern Europe. Late last year, ECM Real Estate Investments sold City Tower, Prague's tallest building, to an unidentified buyer in a deal valued at €130 million ($181.1 million). Meantime, DEKA Immobilien Investment GmbH [ ... ]

  Simple Guidelines To Ensure Buying Your Dream Vacation Home Doesn't Become a Nightmare In 2009, Britain’s prestigious Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors singled out Italy as one of the best places to invest in real estate, because the real estate in Italy was not undermined by cheap credit and has avoided the boom and bust seen elsewhere in Europe and the US.

  BUDAPEST -(Dow Jones)- Hungary's new real estate tax is unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday as it annulled the tax retroactively from the date of its launch Jan. 1.

This home, built in 2003, was designed according to the principles of feng shui, the Chinese practice of creating harmonious surroundings.

   With a temperate climate, medieval castles, beaches, olive groves, vineyards, wooded hilltops and a soon to be completed new airport, the Alentejo region of Portugal has much to offer foreigners seeking an attractive and quiet European getaway. With residential home prices in Evora ranging from 50,000 to 120,000 Euro ($72,000-172,000) and an affordable cost of living, this UN [ ... ]