Has anybody buying property abroad noticed today’s analysis of population growth forecasts from Goodbody stockbrokers on RTE Business http://www.rte.ie/business/2005/morningrep/download/0413goodbody.pdf ? While the article is more concerned with the effect of population growth on the financial sector are some of its data not important for those investing in property abroad? For example, if, as the report states, the populations of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic are expected to decline by 12% – 13% from where are all the potential purchasers going to come to push up the prices of those apartments from which purchasers are expecting to obtain their capital gains? If the number of potential renters is going to fall does this not increase the risk of lower rental income? If, as the article says, the large population countries for which populations are expected to rise are Ireland, Belgium, UK, France and Sweden are these not the only countries in which it is makes sense to invest in property, or rather that that, due to the envisaged increase in population, the risks are relatively lower than investing in property in those countries for which a population decline is envisaged?