News Digest (16-30 November, 2013)

News Digest (16-30 November, 2013)

Traditionally, we begin the news digest with a star homes review. This time we focus on Britain: for a start, the famous actor Tom Cruise decided to settle in London and literally the following day the legendary footballer David Beckham was announced to become a neighbor of Prince William.

Let’s move further to Italy, where the process of selling celebrities’ properties has finally been joined by celebrities themselves. A villa that once belonged to the lady who posed for Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa", is for sale for € 50 million. Home of another famous Italian, wooden boy Pinocchio, is much cheaper - only € 10,5 million.

The famous tenor Andrea Bocelli also decided to participate in real estate deals and united business and such great thing as reconstruction of his native village. Saying goodbye to Italy, let’s go Venice for a while: a city where life is like a fairy tale!

Those who did not succumb to the temptation to stay in fabulous Venice are welcome in harsh reality, where winter is coming in full force. And it means that it's time for ski resorts, the best of which have been selected in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

Those who don’t like mountain peaks are going to spend winter in Spain. Waiting for inevitable increase of interest from foreigners, experts shared information about the most popular real estate.

While Spain is facing local influx of foreigners, Eurostat considers more global things. The agency’s report says not only about 800 thousand European passports, issued to non-residents in 2011, but it also provides useful information for those who want to combine purchase of real estate with obtaining citizenship of one of the EU countries.

Portugal and France present great interest to foreign investors and fans of good living. It is the reason of constant attention of experts who evaluate real estate markets condition. ee24.com analysts calculated the average cost of real estate per square meter In Portugal, while in France there has been a price decline, the most prestigious regions are becoming more affordable.

We continue to inform our readers about opportunities of purchasing a property in Europe for the price of an apartment in major Russian cities. This time we selected European properties for the price of two-room apartment in St. Petersburg.

ee24.com analysts collected extensive data on the Gulf of Finland development in the Estonian capital - Tallinn. Read in the exclusive material “The nearshore property: Tallinn sells Gulf of Finland coast for 1.5 million” about a depressive area of ​​a city that is planned to turn into a blooming garden. Continuing the Baltic topic we present the top five reasons to buy property in Latvia.

In October-November 2013 there has been a series of exhibitions devoted to foreign real estate. The exhibitions took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev. Following the results of business and friendly meetings, ee24.com begins publishing a series of interviews with experts of real estate market. Elena Andrieu, manager of agency Monaco Properties, told ee24.com how to buy a piece of Mediterranean paradise in the brilliant Principality of Monaco, and Konstantin Zelenyuk, manager of company Schaber GmbH Immobilien shared with us the nuances of the real estate market in Germany.

We are completing the digest on a positive note. Desire to profit from the world famous monument of architecture has led to selling a piece of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It must be noted that it was absolutely legal!