Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa May 2014 | Page 57

REI Offshore

Recent reports show that with the FIFA World Cup
and the 2016 Olympic Game to be held in Brazil that
the country is steering it towards being one of the
world’s most exciting emerging property markets for
investors looking for buy to let real estate that brings
in a regular income because of the influx of visitors to
the country

Portugal, with its beautiful beaches, appealing
architecture and excellent cuisine, is globally
recognised as a tourism hotspot, so much so that it
was once again recognised at the prestigious World
Travel Awards for Europe, taking home no less than
nine awards in 2013, while CNN believes that Lisbon
could be Europe’s ‘coolest’ city (CNN 26 January 2014).

Valuable Input

John Beekman
CEO
The Beekman Group
Mozambique is one of the
fastest growing countries
in Africa. With its newlytapped mineral resources,
an escalating GDP, close
proximity to SA, booming
tourism and investmentfriendly government offers
investors the opportunity to
take part of its remarkable
growth.
www.reimag.co.za

Tony Clarke
Managing Director
Rawson Property Group

Jenny Ellinas
Managing Director
Cypriot Realty

We are already seeing in SA,
funds are being drained from
the emerging markets and taken
back to the US. SA will suffer,
but in the not too distant future
we will all benefit from the US’s
improved ability both to step
up imports and to invest more
abroad as they did previously
and the local housing market
will benefit from this.

The Cypriot government
announced at the end of March
that they have revised their
Citizenship by Investment
programme, making it the quickest
and most cost-effective way to get
an EU passport ( which are issued
between two to three months of
making the application) for a whole
family including adult dependent
children up to the age of 28.

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