Tag: Bangladesh

How much is all the property in the world worth? According to Savills research, almost $230 trillion.

The company operating Pakistan property website Zameen.com is expanding into the Bangladesh market.

Dan Johnson from TheMoveChannel.com joins UK Forex for an exclusive interview to give useful tips on buying a property abroad.

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Global property markets are now in “full-scale bloom”, according to the latest data, with house prices climbing around the world in the first quarter of 2013.

The owner of the eight-story building that collapsed in Bangladesh has been arrested at the border trying to flee to India. Mohammed Sohel Rana had been on the run since the complex, which housed five garment factories, fell apart like a pack of cards, trapping thousands of workers. Four others, including engineers, have been taken into custody and will be taken before the court. The structure caved in five days ago, despite warnings that cracks had appeared on pillars after a jolt was felt by workers. Four people were rescued alive on Sunday. But time is not on the rescuers' side and more and more, it is bodies they recover. Pumping fresh air through holes in the rubble gives any survivors a slightly better chance. Nevertheless, neither the rescuers nor the hordes of anxiously waiting relatives are hopeful. The arrest of the owner increases the probability of getting to the bottom of this tragedy, but it will come as small consolation to the victims or their families. Authorities have put the latest death toll at 377 and expect it to rise, with hundreds more still unaccounted for.

Global property investment could top $1 trillion this year, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The firm’s latest International Investment Atlas reports that the global property investment market saw a “modest” 6 per cent rise in activity over the court of 2012, with volumes up to US$929billion.

BuyAssociation, the award-winning property media expert, has teamed up with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to produce an online video guide to buying property abroad.

Sterling has continued its slow start to 2013 with sentiment on the British pound still low.

Report shows commercial real estate direct investment volume will more than double to US$1 trillion by 2030; Asia Pacific region leads investment growth since crisis.