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Yes, but not at small money. Good buys in East manchester from 70k to 90k in 2-bed terraced houses in the better areas, renting at about 425 per month unfurnished to private tenants. Probably best to avoid expensive apartments in city centre; there is a glut of these on the rental market, and...

Re: Building development funding I'm no great fan of the Rand, not sure it will necesarily strengthen in the forseeable future. I would advise you to borrow to the max in SA, to minimise exposure to currency, and try to sell prior to completion and effectively let the buyer finance the...

No resale market in a dying town. Go and look at it, the "honeymoon capital of America", dying on its feet. Its a depressing kip even on a good day; I've seen more cheerful shanty towns in Africa. The tourism business nowadays is drive through, nobody stays there any more. Honeymooners get...

Re that link to USA property, Niagra Falls is a bit of a kip to say the least. Much better going to areas where you won't be left stuck with a property if you have to sell it. Best places as I said already are the quality locations in and around New York and New England, Maine etc. Cape Cod is...

Aldi have two large LCD TVs on sale this week, a 42" and a 47", Anyone have any thoughts on them, are they worth getting, i.e. are they somewhat future-proof or old technology?

The old telly is starting to get foggy, thought it was my eyes but then Mrs Auto mentioned it as well. Looks like most tellys now in Power City etc are flat screen, and price differences between Plasma and LCD are not great. So, which is the best thing to buy? We have a largish livingroom...

Just on a point of information, from my own experience of talking to many of the Roma women who beg in Dublin, most of the ones I have spoken to are Albanian. Not that this takes from the original question.......!

Will you be able to sell it again? No, unless at a substantial discount on what you paid. If you keep it a year or so until the inevitable crash, you are looking at at losing around half your money. Biggest mistake of your life? Hard to say, have you followed the crowd before into similar...

I would look at this in a broader way. Firstly, the gains in this market have mostly already been made, and there is even a risk of prices dropping. Therefore the possibility of making windfall gains (as your sister has already done) in the furure are slim. The second issue is the one of...

I'm surprised that the OP has not given us the most important and basic fact about these units, i.e., what is the expected yield from them expressed as a % of the selling price. Taking this thought process further, why on earth would a developer be letting valuable commercial in the city centre...

Who did you buy it from? Surely they can help. There are still enough suckers lining up to buy this garbage, and you should offload it quickly to one of them while you have a chance. Don't worry about the commiussions -- it will be worth it to get out of your situation. In any case, because they...

Avoid the Chocolate Factory. It will be difficult to sell apartments in the future that are located almost on top of a busy railway line. Even now, trains are frequent and noisy; this can only get worse. It takes a certain kind of masochist to buy a home by a railway track -- you are limiting...

Not going to risk their what?

Can't add much to that, except.. Black Sea coast is a good place to buy land, prices still rising, but be sure to buy only intravaillian. Lots of people will tell you that land is due to be made intravillian next year etc, don't believe it. One of the keys to the future of this area is the...

I noticed in one of the Sunday papers (can't remember which one, have escaped to Spain to avoid the weather and the post-election news) that a developer in Clare is offering holiday homes at 345,000 with a five year guaranteed rental of 9,500 euro. I'm open to correction on the figures, but near...

I would go further on this, at the risk of drifting away from the OP. I believe that anyone born in Ireland who had to emigrate in the bad years should have a vote here, via our embassies abroad as is the case for other civilised countries. The fact that we exclude a large tranche of our...

All they need to make anywhere the "next big thing" for Irish buyers is to do the following: 1. Sell a few big developments off plan and push up the prices way above local levels. 2. Push up prices still further in order to pay for "guaranteed rentals" for a couple of years. 4. Take out...

Don't do it! Life is too short for this kind of misery on a daily basis. I don't know your reasons for choosing Gorey (nice town and all that it is), but the current slow market gives you several better options. Unless you have strong family ties to Wexford, better by far to commute from...

Wouldn't reckon too much on the prospects for Slovakia. While the country is improving -- slowly, and from a low base -- it isn't the most exciting place to risk funds at this point. I'm no great fan of Poland, with the exception of parts of Warsaw and Krakow, but it beats the pants off Slovakia...

Go for Cluj over Bucharest; the latter is overpriced for any of the good stuff. Also be careful of secondary locations being sold by one or two of the big-name players in Bucharest at prices that more properly reflect the better areas.