November 2008 newsletter

Dear [NAME],
This is the uv10 newsletter for November 2008, we hope you enjoy it.
Best Regards,
The uv10 team

Learning Portuguese and Living with the Locals – The Hobdays Take on Buying in Brazil

Brazil is delicately balancing the tightrope between actively encouraging more tourists and becoming overly 'touristy'. The adoption of a 'less is more' approach is proving to be the key to success allowing the beaches, climate, cuisine and inspirational locals to speak for themselves. And it's this simplicity which attracted Richard and Nicola Hobday, both aged 38 from Esher in Surrey, to buy their first overseas property in this popular South American nation.  read more ....

Pipa Natura – Completed Property with Off-Plan Payment Terms

Off-plan property may suit the bold and the brave but for some it's just nice to get down to brass tacks and sign-up for a home that's built and ready to go. No surprises, no waiting and no need for a vivid imagination. However this does come with one snag, you've got to stump up the whole asking price and with somewhere like Brazil where mortgages are virtually non-existent that means finding a pile of cash. Step in Pipa Natura where you can have both your finished property and your off-plan payment terms.  read more ....

Brazil's Tibau Ocean Residences – Lay Down Your Towels and Claim Rare Beachfront Property

A sprawling mansion hugging a tropical beach is the stuff property dreams are made of. Fantasise no more. For less than 175,000 euros you can have this mansion, well one of the 11 homes within it, fronting the paradisiacal beaches of Tibau do Sul close to Pipa, Natal, on Brazil's northeastern coastline. And, with most of the surrounding coastline protected from construction, Tibau Ocean Residences is also certain to be a smart investment for the future.  read more ....

Full House in Brazil – When the Key to the Door of an Apartment Just Wont Don't

Few would argue that Pipa Beach is northeast Brazil's pick of the bunch, but some would prefer to set their sights higher than a pocket-money priced off-plan apartment and take the plunge on a key-ready, private luxury villa – and at only 187,000 pounds for three spacious bedrooms and glorious sea views, why not?  read more ....

Brazil Bucks the Trend and Upgrades Its Economic Forecast for 2008

Whilst Spain's Central Bank is busy downgrading its economic forecasts from 3.1% GDP growth this year to a revised 2.4%, largely thanks to the depressed property market, its Latin American rival across the Atlantic is massaging its figures in an upwards direction. Brazil's Central Bank believes that it has underestimated the strength of its economy and has moved its previous forecast of 4.5% GDP growth this year up to 4.8%. Having studied figures just released which show Brazil's current GDP to be worth £749 billion in 2007, up 5.4% on 2006, the official number crunchers decided that they'd been too cautious.  read more ....