Overseas buyers in Brazil can get an unexpected shock when they find they are paying interest on staged payments, experts point out.

Brazilian real estate developers believe that new property investment opportunities will open up with new direct flights between Sao Paulo and the United Arab Emirates.

The strength of Sterling against the Brazilian Real means that for British buyers property in Brazil is even more affordable, it is claimed.

Property prices in Rio are cooling and some sellers are even accepting offers below the asking price but that means that foreign buyers are seeing the city as a real estate investment opportunity, according to experts.

With prices continuing to rise in Brazil and the country’s economy booming there is concern that something might crash at some point but real estate experts do not believe that the property market will burst.

Property prices in Brazil are likely to increase modestly, around 5 to 10%, in 2012 and the real estate sector should avoid a bubble, according to a poll of real estate and financial experts.

Politians in Argentina have approved a controversial new law to restrict the sale of agricultural land to foreign buyers.

Argentina’s biggest real estate developer is to look for opportunities in crisis stricken Europe and keep expanding its business in the United States and Argentina, it has been announced.

Buyers interested in property in Mexico can now access the entire listing from the Mexico National Association of Real Estate Professionals in English under a new deal with agents in the United States.

Estancia Punta del Agua, the largest ever block of freehold land to come onto the market in Argentina is being sold by a London based agent.

A new single registry for rural properties it to be created in Argentina so that it can be determined who owns what in a move that is likely to make the South American’s country’s real estate sector more transparent.

The chief executive of one of the world’s leading real estate investment companies will give the keynote speech at Brazil’s largest annual real estate and tourism investment conference next month.

The Brazilian government is tightening a law that restricts the amount of land foreigners can buy in a move that is aimed at preventing foreign investors from circumventing the interpretation of a law that restricts their direct acquisition of land.

The real estate market in Barbados is back on track with last year seeing surge in activity as the global economic downturn has placed the location in a better competitive position, according to a new report.

The real estate market in São Paulo, the economic hub of Brazil and South America’s largest city, is slowing as figures from local estate agents suggest the property market may have peaked.

Brazil’s largest real estate developer sees no risk of a property bubble in the country’s housing market despite surging sales and a red hot economy.