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Town homes and condos are so similar that people often confuse them or use the two terms interchangeably.  So, I’ve included a set of questions you can ask yourself when you’re visiting properties in order to distinguish condos from townhouses.

How are the properties attached?  Town homes and condos are always physically attached in some way to other town homes or condos in the development.  If the property is not attached to another property, it is a single family home (or house).  If the property is attached on one (or on either) side to another property – but it doesn’t have a property above or below it – you are most likely looking at a townhouse.  If the property is attached to other properties on at least one of its sides and has a property above or below it, you are looking at a condo.

Does ownership of the property include the land it sits on?  With town homes, the owner owns the land under the town house as well as the air space over the town house.  In this case, the property is recorded with a tax map number separating the town home lot from the other town homes in the same development.  Condos are different because the owner owns the condo but has no separate ownership of the surrounding land.  Condo owners have a percentage ownership in the land that their condo sits on, but their portion of land ownership can’t be separated or distinguished from all the other condo owners’ shares. 

Can a property be considered both a condo and a townhouse?  No.  A property should legally fall into one of the two categories.  Occasionally you will find a property that looks like a town house because it will not have properties above or below it, but it still will be considered a condo legally.  This is because the property doesn’t have land to convey with the sale of the home.  This type of situation is common in areas where the city will not allow a lot to be subdivided.  The deed restrictions will stipulate the lot division between the condo units, but the property will share a lot or tax map number with the other properties in the building.

What if I can’t distinguish the property I plan to buy?  Since all of this can be confusing to even an experienced buyer, I suggest talking with a knowledgeable real estate agent.  And, if it’s a questionable property, it would be a good idea to talk with a real estate lawyer before closing on the property. 

My word it’s been a fair few weeks since I uploaded one of these, but never fear because I’m back with another ‘creation of’ video…well obviously! London Townhouses is inspired by the Townhouses of London, as daft as it sounds. With split level stairs and narrow units. This lot contains a modern inspired interior. The townhouses themselves are designed for a fresh family as you’ll see in the video. The song used is: Sugababes – Denial and you can download the lot here: thesims2.ea.com – Twiggers

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The property market in Turkey is faring much better than the UK property market in the face of the global economic downturn.  Bodrum in particular has gained in popularity with UK investors.

As an emerging property market, prices are much lower than the average within the EU.  This means that buying a property in Turkey offers the potential for significant capital gains, as well as owning your dream holiday home.  Tourism in Turkey has risen steadily over recent years.  The volume of tourists means that rental income on property in Turkey is 5-10%.   Rental income is particularly good coastal areas. Visitors are drawn by the number of hours of sunshine and low cost of living.  The Aegean coast specifically is very popular with tourists from the UK.

The possibility of EU accession is an interesting factor to consider with respect to property in Turkey.  The expectation that EU accession would benefit Turkey’s economy is a reason for optimism.  Turkey’s economy has enjoyed sustained growth since the crash of 2001.  Furthermore, the government is working to standardise Turkish laws and bring them in line with those of other European countries. This is likely to make living in Turkey easier and more familiar for Brits, which will have a knock on effect on consumer confidence and international property investment.  Housing developments are also being built in line with European regulations.  It seems that Turkey is at a favourable point in the transition towards becoming a Member State for property investors.

Turkey’s position outside the Eurozone is favourable to prospective property buyers.  The current exchange rate between the pound and the euro has made European countries much less affordable for Brits abroad.  Such currency considerations obviously don’t only affect the price of the property itself – there are much wider implications.  The price of everything from food, transport and entertainment to legal fees is affected

The UK has a reciprocal arrangement with Turkey so the buying process is straightforward.  Turkey allows foreigners to purchase property provided Turks can purchase property in the buyer’s country.

So if you are looking for a sound property investment or a simply place to go and forget about the recession – buying a property in Turkey might provide a welcome ray of sunshine in these gloomy times.

International Property Agents are an award winning real estate company specialising in property development in Turkey – see www.internationalpropertyagents.co.uk for a great range of villas, apartments and land for sale in Turkey.

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After a good nights sleep at Argyle Manor B&B in Windsor I woke up early on October 17, 2008 to interview my hosts, Dr. Paul and Kerri Thomas. I found out that Dr. Paul Thomas is a retired university professor in human kinetics and a renowned expert in ergonomics. Both he and his wife have been involved in competitive sports for many years and Dr. Thomas still coaches basketball at a local private high school and his children are actively involved in high level sports. Breakfast was fabulous and included a fruit salad, freshly baked muffins made from self-rising flour and ice cream (the flavour was double-churned strawberry) as well as a garbage bag omelette (omelette ingredients that are placed in a clear plastic bag and boiled in hot water). I had a couple of hours before my planned border crossing to Detroit, so I took a walk in the surrounding Walkerville area, a historic neighbourhood that was developed by Hiram Walker, the distillery owner of Canadian Club Whiskey fame. The distillery began operations in 1856 and Walkerville was originally a housing development for workers at his distillery. It also featured a number of upscale mansions for managers at Hiram Walker. The workers townhouses were built from 1858 onwards and are still in great shape today. My stroll in the neighbourhood continued to Willistead Manor, the original mansion of the Walker family that today is a city park. The mansion was built between 1904 and 1906 and was designed by renowned Detroit …

International Property website offer you services of overseas property, whether you are seeking at property investment abroad, buying an overseas retirement property, online investment in properties in the best locations around the world. Interested people are looking for international property at great destinations that has been voted one of the best property investments in the world.

International Property market is booming worldwide Property purchase and selling property in the market has expanded its stability across many countries economies. When comes to property sale market, Dubai has a wide range of realestate investment properties, ranging from very cheap to very expensive, based on the nature of the location. International property guide suggests that a combination of inflation, widespread subsidies of housing markets, political troubles, and overbuilding, have made the outcome in Dubai is ‘boom’ Property sale markets. Dubai’s present apparent property boom is a ‘construction boom – not an investment property, it says, warning property investors against following the tempting siren song of the real estate professionals.

Realestate international property investors want to buy property as an asset but consider it as a realestate investment and which will actually results in excellent returns on their investment property.

The growth in international property prices are good, not only does the country such as Dubai have a unexpected growth, it is rapidly promoting its tourist industry and this means a huge influx on people wanting high quality accommodation to rent and looking for holiday homes.

Property purchaser can actually think seriously about the investment property in condo hotels, realestate international property and property overseas. International Property provides the opportunity to enjoy buying realestate appreciation while the investment property is being built as well as after the construction is completed.

Why investing in international property?

-Property overseas is available in low initial prices.

-There is some contract based provision attach to buy property, sell property, buy realestate, sell realestate, property sale or realestate sale which binds the investor to hold the property for some duration.

-Property overseas can be sold by the time realestate sale or realestate buy market with much higher returns.

Real Estate business has seen tremendous growth and so has been the need of Real Estate agent. Today more and more people are getting interested to become home owner and as the demand for real estate need increases the role of Real Estate Agent becomes more important. In the past one agent use to provide services to both seller and buyer but as the real estate market changed people started to realize that specialized service is more logical and beneficial. In Real Estate industry now buyer/seller are looking for specialized agents who can provide specialized related expertise, information and services required to complete the process. When a real estate agent represents both buyer and seller it really restricts agents to provide impartial service to either party.

Let’s look at the both (Seller/Buyer) scenario separately. A real estate agents who is a listing agent of seller has a fiduciary, ethically and moral duty to represent seller only.

By getting Exclusive Right to Sell Listing, the real estate agent is promising seller that he will live no stone unturned to market the home and find the best buyer at maximum possible market value for the home.

As a Buyer’s real estate agent he need to find the right home for buyer along with should all information of the community. When a buyer is exploring to buy a real estate property in new community, he is very much interested to find out several information related to that particular community such as population, crime, climate, schools, traffic, living standards etc. Buyer’s real estate agent should be well informed with all these information so that he can provide that information to buyer. It will be easier for buyer to make the decision based on these information. Once the buyer is ready to buy real estate property in the community then other part of the real estate agent’s duty starts. As buyer’s agent it is his responsibility to find a real estate property, as per buyers requirement. It is also buyer’s real estate agents duty to negotiate the best market price with seller.

So if seller and buyer are represented by their own specialized agent then both agents can play a partial and specialized role for their client..

So it is quite clear that one real estate agent representing both seller and buyer can not justify providing specialized service to both party. Both buyer and seller are in different need of services. That’s why specialized real estate service has become more in demand where buyer/seller can get impartiality specialized service during the process.

Never before has the role of specialists in the world of real estate been more important. With buyers and sellers requiring more services, the industry has seen an explosion of agents who specialize in either the representation of sellers or buyers. These specialist agents can provide a wealth of services and maintain a complete impartiality during the sales process as there is only one client to concern them.

Historically the sales transaction and the concerns of the buyer were the purview of a single realtor. However, as the industry has progressed so have the needs of each party and so the specialist arose. Buyers have some very particular needs, and specifically the need to feel that their best interests are seen to. Listing agents are representatives of the home’s owner and in that role they have a primary responsibility to that owner. How could they properly look after the needs of an interested buyer as well?

So what is it that a buyer’s agent does? Primarily the buyer’s agent will begin with the location of suitable properties for their clients. This is usually based upon a list of requirements and desires that the client has communicated to the agent. They will then arrange viewings and recap their findings with their clients and assist in deciding upon a good candidate for an offer. This will be based on the wealth of community information that a buyer’s agent commands. As specialists, they are experts on their given area which is critical in the education of clients on the areas that they are considering. Once a property is decided upon, the buyer’s agent changes significantly, evolving into an overseer-negotiator role. They will typically coordinate the inspections and conduct the negotiations with the listing agent. This includes the execution of the buyers subjects and the closing of the actual contract.

There is an art to representing a buyer. It is a role that has become ever more crucial in an industry where customer service is the single most important thing that an agent can offer. If you are in the market for a home then the buyer’s agent is the friend that you need to make sure that you are given the service that you deserve.

Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Lombard in talks with American company to launch the product.

Property transactions in India will soon have an insurance cover to fall back in case something goes wrong in the deal. The country’s two large private sector insurers, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Bajaj Allianz General, are planning to launch title insurance covers this year.

Title insurance is a cover that protects a potential owner of a property against loss from defects in title. The policy is a retrospective one, where the insured is protected against losses arising from the events that occurred prior to the date of issuing the policy. Globally, the policy is bought by investors, occupiers and financiers.

At present, none of the property transactions, be it large acquisitions or a simple sale of a land or a flat, is covered through an insurance policy by an Indian insurer.

The reason is that Indian insurance companies do not have the underwriting expertise to offer title insurance products. Indian insurers require reinsurance support to be able to offer the product.

Both Bajaj Allianz and ICICI Lombard are in talks with First American Title Insurance Company (FATIC), which will be offering reinsurance support for Indian insurers to offer the product.

FATIC is the largest title insurer globally, with a revenue of $8.4 billion in 2006.

Says Swaraj Krishnan, CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, “We have had a preliminary discussion with First American Title Insurance. We have asked them to give us the product details. We will be doing a market study, verifying the titles and will file the product with the regulator in the coming months.”

The value of the title insurance cover will be equal to the price of land that has to be acquired. The premium rates will be a function of the value of property, the nature of transaction, which means the size of the purchase, the past history of the real estate property, costs relating to title search and the legalities involved in the title search.

Howden Insurance Brokers is also in talks with real estate developers, financial institutions, law firms, insurance companies and reinsurers to culminate into the next few insurance policies being sold.

Says Anoop Mathur, vice-president of Howden Insurance Brokers, “The value at risk has grown proportionally as the land cost has increased for the real estate developers. Title insurance makes a project bankable and saleable to customers.”

According to Akshaya Kumar, chairman, Park Lane Property Advisors, consultants during due diligence discover 20-30 per cent cases have title defects in them.

Property consultants believe that the availability of title insurance products will boost private equity investment in Indian real estate since most of the institutions are very particular about clear titles.

According to accounting and business consultancy firm Grant Thornton India, private equity firms have invested nearly Rs 25,000 crore in Indian real estate and infrastructure in 2007and, according to industry estimates, the investments are set to grow in the coming year.

“Institutions do not buy even if they have the slightest doubt about the titles. More private equity funds will flow in the Indian real estate if title insurance products are available in the country,” says Anuj Puri, chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj, an international property consultant.

Adds Anshuman Magazine, managing director, CB Richard Ellis, South Asia: “Title insurance products give a lot of comfort to international investors to invest their funds in the property markets of developing markets such as India. Since these investors do not invest directly and do joint ventures with Indian developers, the local partners will take care of title issues. But we have also seen foreign investors demanding these products before signing the agreements to develop properties.”

According to Mathur of Howden Insurance Brokers, the two Bills — Land Acquisition Amendment Bill, which has been introduced last month in the Lok Sabha, and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill – will make corporates acquiring land for SEZ or other reasons buy title insurance covers.

Explains Mathur, “After the amendement of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984, the government will not be able to acquire land and make it available for companies. As a result, corporates will have to acquire the land directly from land owners at a higher price. In such a scenario, title insurance would protect project developers from any financial loss arising from any defects in title to real property.”

There are two types of title insurance policies: the owners’ policy and the lenders’ policy. Owners’ title insurance is bought by a buyer of the property. It protects the buyer from all loss or defects in a title.

On the other hand, the lenders’ title insurance is bought by lenders such as banks and financial institutions. Experience in other global markets is that all institutional lenders require title insurance to protect their interests in the collateral of loans secured in real estate.

The policy amount decreases each year in proportion to the loan paid off each year. The policy has a provision for defence cost if a title to the real property is challenged in a court of law up to the actual amount of indemnity provided under the policy.

Land records in the country are not computerised and are not easily accessible.

The deeds registration system is not guaranteed by the state government and is inconclusive; typically leaving buyers with 30 years of title deeds to assess. Besides, the level of fraud in Indian real estate transactions is very significant; and the legal process is slow.

According to insurance officials, four to five foreign title insurance companies are keen to do business in India on this product. They may set up a dedicated company in India or could provide reinsurance support to Indian insurers to offer the policy for this line of business.