Irish investing where?

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chihiro

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For research purposes (not for buying myself) I am interested in finding out the trend on where Irish people are purchasing property abroad over the last year or two.

Starting with the highest level of investment I imagine it's
1. UK
2. France
3. Spain
After that I'm not too sure but am hazarding a guess at
4. Bulgaria
5. Portugal
6. Turkey
7. Croatia
8. Poland
9. UAE
10. Hungary
11. Cyprus
12. South Africa
13. Germany

If anyone could add anything big I'm missing or rejig the order for me I'd appreciate it. Like I said I'm interested in where people HAVE bought (as opposed to where is seen as a good investment).
 
The list above seems to be the product of your imagination. It might be better to collate such a list based on some hard data.
 
UK, France and Spain are based on hard data from a survey conducted in the last 12 months.The rest of the list is based on my "imagination" (I like to call it an educated guess).

On further analysis when I include second homes as well as residential investment it looks more like this:

INVESTMENT/SECOND HOME PURCHASES IN IRELAND
Ireland 75.5%
Spain 6.0%
UK 5.5%
France 3.0%
Others 10.0%

I have no further breakdown of "others" available and was hoping anybody who knows alot about the overseas investment market could point me in the right direction. I just want to get a rough feel for what this 10% might be made up of, doesn't need to be exact.

So my question is: who are the others?

Thanks.
 
I imagine the United States would be on the list. Cape Verde is one of the more exotic locations I have seen discussed.
 
Hungary would experience more than Croatia from my knowledge, along with Poland. Germany would be pressing past Croatia as there is great interest in German commercial investments (office spaces etc) so it needs alittle rejigging.

Also you didn't include Italy which should be well ranked, at last above South Africa.
 
For which time period?

I think the time period matters hugely here. In 2005 I reckon France overtook UK but for the first 6 months in 2006, Poland, Germany and Portugal surged up the charts.
 
Bulgaria is a recent scam in my opinion , Portugal should be much higher than Bulgaria in tems of amounts invested .
 
RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT/ HOLIDAY HOMES
Ireland 75.5%
Spain 6.0%
UK 5.5%
France 3.0%
Others 10.0%
Bulgaria
Portugal
Turkey
Hungary
Poland
Croatia
UAE
Cyprus
Italy
South Africa
Germany
US
 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. looking at 2005 but interested to hear how things are changing in 2006 also.
Almo, I'm not looking at commercial property, just residential so I didn't move Germany. Is Germany still too far down the list in your opinion?

RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT/ HOLIDAY HOMES 2005

Ireland 75.5%
Spain 6.0%
UK 5.5%
France 3.0%
Others 10.0%
Portugal
Bulgaria
Turkey
Hungary
Poland
Croatia
UAE
Cyprus
Italy
South Africa
Germany
US
 
I would have it above Croatia, for all the talk of Croatia, it is still low levels (esp compared to English or German investors), it would be worth looking a costs of property, especially in some of eastern markets. Would places like China come into the equation or would that be too 2006 oriented? Seems like everything is in it's right place though. Good job.
 
RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT/ HOLIDAY HOMES 2005

Ireland 75.5%
Spain 6.0%
UK 5.5%
France 3.0%
Others 10.0%
Portugal
Bulgaria
Turkey
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Croatia
UAE
Cyprus
Italy
South Africa
US

MOVERS N SHAKERS FOR 2006
Poland, Portugal & Germany moving up the chart
Japan - new entry

You're right, looking at the costs of properties could certainly change the order around. This listing is looking at it from the perspective of the number of purchases in each country.I should really be taking into account cost of purchases in each of the countries. Back to the drawing board again!

Thanks again for all the info.
 


I would suggest your list is pretty pointless to say the least. WHat is the point???
 
The overseaslist.com has a survey of where people are searching for each month, the last one is at [broken link removed], which would suggest France, Portugal, Spain and Poland are the most researched countries. It obviously says nothing about which countries attract the most investment but I presume those researched most have a fairly high probability of being the ones with the highest investment.
 
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