TweetIf you seek to spread your investment returns and are comfortable with venturing beyond the UK boundaries, then there are some great opportunities to make returns on property overseas. For example, Istanbul, Turkey has recently been included on a list of top 25 Cities by McKinsey, as a mover & shaker of the future.

There are some things worthy of consideration as you set out to snap up your overseas property: Keep reading…

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TweetGeorge Osborne’s budget announcement about FirstBuy, the funded-deposit scheme, a £250m package designed to help 10,000 first-time buyers to purchase a new build home. Will it help First Time Buyers? And what is the alternative?

Well it is a good gesture to help the first-time buyers who want to get on the property-ownership ladder, but in reality how much impact it will have? Keep reading…

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