Released on: April 23, 2008, 8:56 am

Press Release Author: Jim watson

Industry: Real Estate

Press Release Summary: With the credit crunch dominating the news in recent months,
much of the focus has been on where the property market has seen a decline, with the
US and Ireland being two examples of countries suffering heavily, while the UK and
Spanish booms are universally regarded as being over.

Press Release Body: With the credit crunch dominating the news in recent months,
much of the focus has been on where the property market has seen a decline, with the
US and Ireland being two examples of countries suffering heavily, while the UK and
Spanish booms are universally regarded as being over.

In the meantime, of course, those investing in cheap property keep on looking. If
some markets are less favourable now, there are three possible alternatives. One is
to look to an established market that has not been badly hit by the credit crunch
because its banking system has not been entangled with last year\'s subprime
catastrophe, such as France. Another is to look at markets that have been growing
rapidly and are thus able to absorb any possible slight reduction in this while
still offering gains. Advocates of India, Cyprus and the Cape Verde Islands may
identify these as such markets.

A third option is to look at a country where there has been no such thing as a
housing boom in recent years. Germany property is one such location, held back by a
combination of a stunted economic performance since reunification and low levels of
owner occupancy.

Berlin has widely been seen as manifesting both trends more than most, with high
levels of renting even by German standards and the difficulty of re-establishing
itself, albeit as the national capital once more, as an economic asset once the
subsidies those on each side of the wall poured in during the Cold War.

The possibilities of the city have been emphasised by overseas property magazine
Jet-to-Let, which suggested the capital may now offer better prospects than the
likes of Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt.

Associate editor of the magazine Henry Powell-Jones said: \"Frankfurt is the
financial capital and will always be a good location for investment but, I believe,
the real gains will be made in Berlin.\"

He added: \"There is a clear disparity between property prices in Berlin and the
other major cities both within Germany and the rest of Europe which is extremely
attractive for the investor.\"

This attractiveness, Mr Powell-Jones continued, was magnified in the price
comparison with other cities. London is eight times as expensive. Even Sofia is more
expensive, which may say much about the supposed advantages of the \"new\" Bulgarian
market. All this, he noted, was going on while a whole range of developments are
taking place that he believes will support a rise in property values in the year
ahead - large scale service industry relocation, plus the new Brandenburg Airport
and central railway station.

Many anticipate the long-awaited rise in Berlin property values to hit the city
soon. The recent Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2008 report, jointly
published by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, pinpointed Germany
as one economy where property values were likely to grow this year, including in
Berlin and the aforementioned other major cities.

Optimism has also been demonstrated by investment firm David Stanley Redfern, the
Open Press reported last week. Head of international research at the firm Liam
Bailey said: \"For long-term investors who want to start making money right away and
continue earning a stable rental income, as well as being safe in the knowledge that
their property\'s value will grow sustainably, Berlin is the best place for them to
buy in.\"

Therefore, while many emerging markets are capturing the headlines at present, it
may just be that for those who want stable, long-term growth, Germany in general and
Berlin in particular could just be a very good choice.

In today\'s world Property investment is an excellent investment option especially
investment in UK


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