Whenever a particular economy ends up going down the drain, the people who are hurt most by the crash of an economic sector are, of course, the people who had all of their money in that economic sector.
In the specific case of the developed world's property markets, there were many people who had put all of their proverbial eggs from one basket and these property investors were hit very hard by the sub-prime crisis, the economic downturn in the United Kingdom property markets and the problems that have been occurring in property markets throughout the western world.
The lesson taken from these hard times is that a diversified portfolio is a portfolio that can float difficult times, and investors who did not take that lesson to heart now have to desperately scramble to get their portfolios diversified before the really bad parts of the crash and the expected economic recession in the United States hit.
People who have invested in the United States and United Kingdom are now starting to take a closer look at property markets in nearby Wales, Spain and Italy as they are hoping to be able to piggyback on the success of European property markets that are still performing relatively well.
Other people have taken their money out of the property market in part and put them into property stocks hoping to get some big scores on capital gains returns from property companies working in foreign markets and still gaining a lot in their share price and overall share momentum.
Still others are looking directly at overseas property investment in places in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in order to help them offset the potential of loss in their primary western property market investments. All in all, people who should have looked at diversification a long time ago are starting to do it now and that could mean an extraordinary movement of money over the next little while.
