Case in point: Vietnam - where else can you get virgin beach front for between $250 - 400!

The units they are building span in size from 1,500 - 8,000 square feet.

Phuket has long been recognized as the preferred tourist destination in Southeast Asia.

There are over 100 homes (inc. condos) in various stages of development that are listed at $1M+

Kata Beach, located on the prestigious west side of Phuket Island, is one of the most pristine beaches on the island. Kata Beach is in close proximity to the nightlife of Patong Beach, the shopping conveniences of Phuket Town, and the spectacular sunsets of Laem Promthep.

This is another of my early interviews, so it is a little raw at the beginning, but I believe that the context would indicate that the Turkish condo market is offering favorable price discounts - between 30 - 40%!

Key domestic markets: Ismir, Bodrum and Istanbul

Emerging golf resort sector - only one way well placed golfing condo communities can go as far as I am concerned

70% LTV’s available - this developers pricing runs at about $200 - 250 per square foot (EU 400/500 per square meter.

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This condo hotel is being sold on a fractional basis (1/12th) - hotel revenue is split 50/50 with the operator.

Learn more by listening to my interview with the developer: Belize Interview

Starting From: $117,000

Selling Point: Guaranteed minimum 7% per annum net rental return for 10 years

The following interview is from Mark Andrew a Venezuelan developer who provides some insight on the Caracola condo hotel resort and the Venezuelan market.  Enjoy!

Please listen to the podcast: Caracola Podcast

Currently UK buy-to-let investors, as well as most shareholders and second homeowners, face a minimum CGT rate of 24 per cent on profits when they sell, so the new 18 per cent rate will mean a tax cut for many individuals.

The tax saving could be even more valuable for investors who bought buy-to-let properties in the boom of the past few years. Those who have been landlords for less than three years currently face a 40 per cent tax rate; from April this will more than halve. But this tax incentive could in turn add to the growing pressure on property prices.

Dubai's surging real estate market is starting to cool but project delays are likely to push along-awaited price correction back until 2009, new research says.

The supply of new apartments and villas has been delayed by materials and labor shortages, failing to meet demand of about 50,000 housing units a year from the steady flow of migrant workers arriving in this boom town, which has positioned itself as a business hub for the Gulf region that is benefiting from record crude oil prices.

EFG-Hermes, a regional investment bank, forecasts that prices will rise 10 per cent to 15 per cent this year and 5 per cent to 10 per cent next year, before peaking in the second half of 2008 and declining by 15 per cent to 20 per cent by 2011 as the supply/demand balance flips.

EFG-Hermes, in late 2006, predicted that prices would start to ease in 2008, dropping 25 per cent to 30 per cent by 2010.

"As a result of the immensity of this boom and supply coming on [more slowly] than expected, we won't have the same correction as forecast," said Philip Khoury, head of research at EFG-Hermes. "The correction will come later and be shallower."

Strong demand is foreseen over the next few years as Dubai's 1.4m population is projected to grow at 8 per cent a year, the research says.

"With another 300,000 people expected to arrive this year we are on track for 2m by 2010, which means even more demand for residential stock," said Nicholas Maclean, the Dubai-based managing director of CB Richard Ellis, a commercial property agency.

EFG-Hermes estimates that less than half of the expected 57,000 residential units will come on to the market this year because of project delays, problems connecting new developments to the utilities network and defects on handover.

Any price correction will affect different parts of the city in different ways: luxury developments will be hit first and hardest, while properties in central Dubai, such as the Dubai International Financial Centre and Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, are likely to hold their value.

Villas, which account for only 10 per cent of new units coming to market, are un-likely to be affected.

However, according to Mike Williams, head of research in the Middle East for Cluttons, the estate agency, Dubai's chronic land shortages and the rising cost of construction will not end any time soon, allowing prices to "rise in a slowing but relatively stable fashion for the foreseeable future".