The Problem: Property Not Selling? Maybe we can help
There are several reasons why otherwise prime real estate gets no interest from qualified buyers. Is it priced for the market conditions? ( market values keep changing up and down ) Is it easily accessible to be viewed? Is it being advertised in the logical target markets? Does the quality of marketing represent the quality of the property? ie is it repressed by high-quality media that has been edited professionally? Here is an example from Cafayate, Argentina. Is the real estate salesperson experienced in…
Scottish pioneers in Argentina are an important part of its history
Great numbers of Scots immigrated to oversea’s in the hundred years before the first world war. Most settled in the United States of America or Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of Britain’s vast empire. A significant minority, however, immigrated to South American states, Argentina being a popular choice. The first Scots settled there in the years before Argentina became an independent confederation in 1816; they were the forerunners in the broader immigration that would eventually contribute…
European immigration: The owners of Argentinian Ranches
European immigration: The owners of the Argentinian campo / Ranches Argentina has been populated almost entirely by European immigrants. Since colonisation, the South American country has received individuals and families from the Old World. During the last 500 years, Argentina has been a destination for merchants, businessmen, travellers, refugees, and government officials, mainly from Spain, Italy, France, Poland, and Germany. Europeans and the Argentinian campo While many Europeans arrived and settled directly…
South America – ‘Biggest ever’ freehold land block up for sale
An area of Argentina bigger than the US state of Rhode Island, or the UK county of Kent, has been put up for sale in what is billed as the potentially the largest freehold block of land ever to hit the open market. An unnamed “Group”, which has owned the Estancia Punta del Agua in north-west Argentina since the 1980s, has put the 989,000-acre (375,640 ha more or less) site up for sale in what is billed as offering the potential for “added value way beyond the cost of the scheme”. Whilst…
The disruption Facebook is having on traditional real estate advertising
The real estate industry has always had a love-hate relationship with the portals such as zonaprop, argenprop , gatewaytosouthamerica.com etc. While the portals own the best audience for property buyers – and are therefore an important part of any vendor’s marketing spend – the charging models and sense of dependence have always irked independent agents. No one likes being obliged to pay for a service you feel you have little control over. But the portals and the technology that drives them are now…
Real estate uses will dramatically change in the next decade if not sooner.
The future of real estate will be influenced by disruption technology as people change how they shop, travel and even grow their food, a world-renowned professor of real estate says. At an international property conference, San Diego University professor Norm Miller said the technological innovations coming, from self-driving vehicles to AI and robots, alongside demographic trends, will cause dramatic changes in real estate, and it’s not a matter of if but when. “Ten trends will change real estate as we…
Why did the the War of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay against Paraguay) happen?
Paraguay, unlike Uruguay, had a thriving economy at the time. This was called to the attention of Brazil and Argentina, who wanted to keep the economic dominance of the La Plata River for themselves. Aside from this, ships that wanted to arrive at Cuiabá (capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil) had to travel through Paraguayan territory because there was no inland access. And the Paraguayan government began to make travel difficult. Things became tougher when, in April 1864, Brazilian minister José Antônio Saraiva…
IN ARGENTINA THE UPPER CLASS DOMINATED RURAL LAND OWNERSHIP
Unlike English Colonial expansion to what now is called the Commonwealth Countries, which were mainly colonised by the middle and lower classes, Argentina was dominated by upper-class immigration for farming. Towards the end of the 18th century, the ruling class consolidated its position, commonly called “Argentines oligarchy”. It is a group of families who own massive amounts of land, dedicated, especially, to livestock production, in the humid Pampa of Buenos Aires, as well as financiers and large…
The Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. It is not too late to enter.
The cemetery was inaugurated in 1872, the first public cemetery in Buenos Aires and became one of the country’s most relevant historical and artistic monuments. The people responsible for its creation were the then Governer Martin Rodriquez and his Ministry Bernandino Rivadavia. The first customers were a black free slave called Juan Benito and a young lady called Maria Dolers Maciel. The site is around 54.843 m2 holding 4,800 vaults. In 1881 the front portico was built in Greek Doric Style by the then-president…
Book Review: The Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the results of relations between economies in the world market and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency, the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in producing raw materials and foodstuffs while importing manufactured goods, a process of unequal exchange took shape…
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Latam’s MercadoLibre profits soar, and the company plans more growth.
South American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre Inc (MELI.O) reported on Wednesday that its second-quarter net income rose 79.8% year-on-year, beating earnings forecasts. The company, present in 18 countries including Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, reported a net income for the three months of $123 million, beating a Refinitiv forecast of $98.9 million. After the results, MercadoLibre’s senior strategy vice president Andre Chaves said the company has plans to grow in Latin America, but “there is nothing…
China is increasingly aggressive on the Malvinas /Falklands impasse: “The UK stubbornly clings to its colonial sins.”
The lead editorial of China Daily’s 6 October 2022 edition, a newspaper belonging to the Chinese Communist Party editorial. It refers to the recent Organization of American States declaration supporting Argentina’s claims of the Malvinas / Falkland Islands’ sovereignty. The 52nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), which concluded in Lima, Peru, on Friday, approved a declaration defending Argentina’s “legitimate rights” over the Malvinas Islands and supporting…
How to choose the right salesperson and sales method in a difficult real estate market
According to Geoffrey McRae, CEO of Gateway to South America, it’s really worth your time and effort to make sure you find the right agent for you. Choosing the best agent to sell your property is the second most important decision in real estate (after choosing the right property to buy). But from my experience, many people are too casual in approaching this crucial decision. They interview a couple of agents and choose the one who gives them the highest valuation or has the lowest commission…
These residential areas of Buenos Aires are in a boom, and that will precipitate a change in the property cycle of the local real estate market
The return to the office of workers cooled the demand for green, and the southern area of the city of Buenos Aires was the only one that registered record sales. The real estate market was going through one of the worst stages in terms of the low number of operations but, paradoxically, construction is experiencing a construction boom in the City of Buenos Aires and its surroundings. This phenomenon has its explanation: developers want to take advantage of a construction cost, in US dollars, that is at the…
