Dear i-PropertyAssets clients,

We regret to inform you that Visium Group, the owner of i-PropertyAssets.com, has closed its doors for further business and ceased trading as of Tuesday 11th August. In the end the recession has been too deep and too long to survive.

i-PropertyAssets clients are advised to contact their letting and management partners directly or make alternative arrangements. The propertysecrets.net forums continue to be active, and you may find this useful for discussing letting and management related issues.

Notices to creditors will be issued over the next few days, notifying them of a meeting to be held on 8th September at the offices of the proposed insolvency practitioner, Walletts (click to download a pdf of the letter of notification of the creditor meeting).
Any statements of interest in purchasing some or all of the business assets of Visium Group Ltd should be directed to Walletts using the contact details on the letter of notification of creditor meeting.

We'd like to say thank you to all our customers, partners and staff for the last 10 years, and we wish you all the best of luck with your investments.

Best wishes

Neil Lewis, Peter Bennett, Simon Shepherd, Jez Touch
Directors
Visium Group Ltd

Are your International Property Assets working for you?

International Property Investment is great until...

...you have to make the assets work, because...

• You live a thousand or more miles away....
• You speak a different language...
• You don´t understand the local law or customs....
• You earn in a different currency...

... and ...

• You don`t know who you can trust...
• You can´t keep an eye on things...
• You can´t keep up with the latest changes in your local property market(s)
• There is a high turn over in property service personnel and businesses

Okay, bad enough?

Well, let's say you´ve built a portfolio of property assets distributed across 3 countries, 4 cities and 6 developments...

Each development may have a different lettings agent, the same managing agent, and when required, a mix of the best resales agents. But of course, each country is different.

So, how do you set up and manage this diverse group of service companies that you need to manage and look after your assets?

How do you ensure that you pick the right managers to manage and the right agents to let and the best sales agents to sell and dispose of your assets?

Add to this the servere economic and competitive pressures that many property markets are experiencing and you may find yourself stuck with a agent who is going bust or a lawyer who is more interested in staying in the good books of the developer than negotiating the best exit options for you.

Then, let's say that you built a good working relationship with a person inside a foreign property service company only to find that six months later that they have left for a competitor or moved on! How frustrating is that?

Trying to keep tabs on everything is a bit like to following single balloon in a 1,000 balloon, balloon race - if you take your eye of it for more than a moment, you'll lose it.

So, acquiring international property assets is a bad idea?

....................far from it!

The returns from smart city based investments in growth european markets has far exceeded the returns available in the UK or other highly developed property markets. And the long term prospects remain very strong even for those who came late to the boom and bought in 2007/8.

It is true that investors can now also make well timed and equally well priced investments into the mature property markets, such as the UK, and that this is particularly attractive to investors whose local currency has appreciated strongly against Sterling.

Therefore, smart investors know that different markets offer different opportunities at different times. And, an investor who is focussed on maximising his returns will understand that he needs to build an international element to his portfolio to take advantage of the international opportunties, or even simply to balance out his domestic portfolio.

The good news is that because this is not easy to do - well, in fact it is easy to do - but very much harder to do it well - the number of investors able to take advantage of these opportunities is limited.

And, when the competition is limited, so the returns tend to be greater.

Hence, international property and asset investment works for property portfolio investors of all levels, but, only when you have a confident and reliable partner who can help you make the assets work once you have acquired them.

It is the 'making it work' part of the deal that is most often ignored and to the great peril of your assets. However, it is possible to make international property assets work and deliver good to great returns for investors. And this is where i-PropertyAssets can deliver a unique service to investors to ensure they get the very best results.

But before we go further, let me be very honest here and give you some bad news...

It is the nature of property asset management and property deals that things go wrong! We do not pretend for a moment that our service will prevent things going wrong. To do so would be to pull the wool over your eyes.

What we can be sure about is that firstly, we have a many years of experience working in European city markets (note, we have no experience of holiday properties and nor do we wish to gain any) which is another way of saying we have seen most issues before. We have also learned a great deal, and made some mistakes too, as we have helped over 1,000 investors complete on properties, many more to let out their properties and a growing number of assets disposals too.

We are also able to adapt to current market trends which means that we can currently help investors looking to aquire built properties in our key countries as well as help a number of investors who are still in the off-plan development stage to renegotiate their contracts.

Therefore, the services we offer and how we offer them will change from time to time as we respond to the actual conditions on the ground and seek to help our investors to make their international property assets work.

Each step in the process from initial acquisition of the asset to disposal many years later is important if you are to realise a wealth creating profit at the end of it. Through out this process, you´ll need to source, use and manage local property services and we can help you each step of the way to make better decisions, at better prices which will give you greater returns in the future.

If you would like to make your international property assets work, or simply work better or even if you have had enough of trying to manage everything yourself, then give us a call on +44 (0) 845 27 99 888, and let's talk about how we can help you.

As you know, the best investment opportunities are often international. The challenge for the modestly or even substantially wealthy property investor has been how to acquire quality assets and then make those property assets work.

And that's where we can help. Call us now on +44 845 27 99 888 and let's get your property assets working or read below to see more on our key services...