Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Following our blog on Milan leading the recovery in the property in Italy market, there are also signs that the nearby historic city of Turin is also weathering the storm reasonably well. Turin has seen a slight 0.3 per cent rise in property prices in the ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Crisis? What crisis? Milan leads the world in fashion – now it could be leading the recovery in the property in Italy market. Prices across the city have risen by an average of 2 per cent in the first three months of 2009, following a 2.1 per cent decrease ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
To help victims of the Italian earthquake, you can donate via the British Red Cross (phone 0845 054 7201) or their Italian equivalent (in Italian) Murder charges may be brought against constructors responsible for badly constructed buildings that collapsed in the Italian earthquake, investigators have revealed. ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Tuscany is invariably the No1 choice of buyers who consider entering the property in Italy market. However, its neighbour to the east, Umbria, is increasingly winning investors over as it has not suffered from Tuscany's decades of inexorably rising prices. And in truth, from the moment one steps foot in ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
As of the time of writing 0730GMT, April 7), at least 179 people are known to have lost their lives in Italy’s deadly earthquake. Another 1,500 have been left injured and at least 17,000 homeless. Some 34 remain unaccounted for. The quake struck just after 0.30am UK time on ...
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