How to avoid the overseas property pitfalls

The overseas property market has been a huge source of investment success for thousands of investors in recent years, but for every success story there has also been a tale of misery - an investor who has lost everything or has been left paying the mortgage on a property that will not rent or sell. At the height of the market, investors were buying in countries such as Dubai, Bulgaria and Spain, without any real local knowledge and only the assurances of hard-selling property agents that they were making a smart investment. Unfortunately, many of these investors are now sitting on substa...