The most famous investor on the East Coast - David Lichtenstein, has recently visited Europe in order to see the market there. He made a full report about the whole real estate situation, and he gave this short version for free to everybody on SlideShare...

1. The Real Estate property market: Switzerland heads, Portugal is trapped
David Lichtenstein reports that the private land business sector creates distinctively in European nations. It uncovers a study of ERA, the European system of land offices, advertised on June 25.
"Since the monetary emergency began 5 years prior, a few nations show huge changes in the lodging business, and others succumb to the emergency," composed masters ERA.
Switzerland and France are the nations where it is exceptionally costly to have a condo. A normal square meter costs 9972 Euros in Bern and 8706 Euros in Paris. Least expensive capitals are Istanbul (475 Euros), Budapest (739 Euros), Prague (1450 Euros), and Lisbon (1173 Euros).
While, in 2013, the state of the private land market has settled in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, David Lichtenstein clarifies that the business sectors in France, the Netherlands and Portugal stayed without noteworthy progressions. Conversely, in Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, in 2013 costs have expanded.
As far as transactions, the state likewise moves contrastingly in every European nation independently. Of the 11 business sectors checked, 4 diminished the quantity of offers in 2013: Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Portugal. Then again, the quantity of transactions expanded in France, Germany, Turkey, Sweden and Bulgaria.
An alternate marker of the solidness of the lodging business is the terms of offer. They have a tendency to cut or settle in Austria, Germany, Belgium, and the terms are expanding in Portugal and the Netherlands. As per the EPA, to offer property in Portugal takes 395 days, against just 65 days in Sweden.
For more data go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/websites/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/why- one-speculator purchased area rather than homes-amid the-lodging bust/