Overseas Property World

Turkey is one of the hottest property markets in the world right now. During the boom Turkey was a fringe market, where investors believed EU accession was necessary to make it a safe investment, and the bulk of buyers were lifestyle buyers. This is no longer the case.

Turkey is now the fastest growing economy in the world, and has been in the top 5 fastest growing for over a year now. According to the Association of Real Estate Investment Companies (GYODER), foreign purchases increased by 40% last year. But of course, you can’t buy a property in Turkey; you have to buy on a street, in a town or city, within a region. Here are 3 of the hottest cities right now to aide in the initial choice.

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On the 18th December 2010 I wrote an article titled: Top 10 Property Investment Destinations in 2011. Turkey was in the number one slot. What I said about Turkey then still holds true today, it has a rapidly growing economy (now the fastest in the world), a stable economy and political system, a strong a stable banking system, a rapidly growing population, and a rapidly growing mortgage market. But was I right?

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Back in December last year I published list of the top 10 best property investment destinations, looking back at it now I am still quite happy with it. One thing I would change for definite if I knew then what I know now would be the position of Turkey.

I put Turkey in 6th behind, America, Malaysia, Brazil, Albania and Panama. If I did the same list now my top 3 would be Brazil, Turkey and America.

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I just dug out an old article I wrote in 2008, in which I recommended 4 emerging property markets for investment, I thought it would be good to take a look at them and see how wrong or maybe right I was. Here we go:

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Unlike the other articles in this series, for the purpose of this chart, I will not be charting the emerging markets that I am trying to say are the best for property investment. This is because there are far too many far too closely matched. So this time I am saying that — while they are among the best in the world for property investment — the emerging markets detailed below are simply my favourite emerging markets to make property investments in.

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