it will be broadcast live on huge plasma screens at The Q Underground at Holiday Inn Dubai — Al Barsha

With holiday home buyers mainly confined to the sidelines, foreign interest in Brazilian real estate is still booming thanks to a huge influx of pure investors eager to cash in on Brazil's flourishing economy and growth in the domestic housing sect

In this topsy turvy market it is reassuring to find that there remains a location where "it is standard for developments to sell out within weeks". This location is Petropólis, dubbed the 'Mayfair' of the city of Natal in Brazil's northea

Brazil is now officially a middle class country with 52% of the 190 million-strong population falling into this bracket. These professionals are using new found wealth to snap up status symbols from televisions to new cars (sales of the latter jumpe