Photo: AFP The Paris property market is the second most attractive in Europe for property investment among the super rich, a new study reveals. The study, carried out by estate agency Knight Frank, looked at the most attractive cities around the world for real estate investment among ultra high-net-worth individuals (those with a household wealth […]
On February the 22nd, we caught up with Africa Plantation Capital C.E.O and MD of AVAKON, Eng. Kosta Kioleoglou at his office in Nairobi and talked about Blue economy, his new venture Avakon and his future plans. In his interview with Erick Madisson, Eng. Kosta provides an overview of Avakon, its products and discusses future growth opportunities. He also […]
Do what it may, the Hong Kong government seems powerless to rein in the territory’s booming property market. In January, the city was judged the world’s least affordable by US planning consultancy Demographia for the eighth successive year (the survey reviewed nine leading global housing markets including the US, China, Singapore, UK and Japan). The […]
For those who hope that elections are the reason of whatever is happening and like magic everything will change afterwards, I suggest that you should be more cautious and skeptical. It is more complicated than that and goes all the way to the fundamentals of this country. By Kosta Kioleoglou House prices increased by 2.08% […]
For several months now, people have been speculating as to what is going to happen during the year 2017. Despite the different opinions, everybody agrees that this year is full of challenges. The period of speculating has finished and now we are living the reality. Since the beginning of the year the news about the […]
Although numbers do not lie, sometimes the market trend is not as crystal clear. Reading the latest available reports on Kenyan economy and the real estate sector, I really find it hard to get a clear position on the status of the market trend. The reason is that it’s towards the end of 2016, and […]
Just a few days ago, the Kenya Bankers Association released the House Price Index for the first quarter of 2016. The 1.4 % increase of the index presented reflected an uptick in house prices during the first quarter of 2016, with the movement representing a not very promising future for the country’s most popular sector […]
From the beginning of the year 2016, several articles have been written concerning the real estate market performance. Several of them were optimistic predicting a very good year for the economy and the property industry. Others were not so optimistic but rather more skeptic about the current situation in the country and the global economy, […]
Dubai’s residential property market is showing signs of plateauing after about 18 months of price decline. New figures from the consultancy ValuStrat show that there was “no significant change” in values of apartments and villas in the 26 areas that it monitored in December. It said that its ValuStrat Price Index remained constant at 97.9 […]
With the global stock markets currently in uncertain territory, many investors are once again turning toward bricks and mortar as a preferred place to put their money. The chaotic Chinese economy and ever-falling oil prices are two of the main factors making many other types of investment look particularly risky right now. However, the recovery […]
