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The October / November 2010 Brazil Real Estate and Land Investor Newsletter: information, notices, links, hints, tips, facts and figures of relevance.

A short post on the back of the news that Dilma Rousseff will be the first female President of Brazil examining the implications for property investors.

A short article we wrote for the ‘Property Abroad’ magazine on an October 2010 debate amongst industry professionals on the potential of a bubble forming in Brazil’s real estate market.

A consumer angled article from the Estado de São Paulo newspaper on the difficulty of valuing Brazilian property and some potential solutions and methodologies provided by some experts.

An extended blog post on a new initiative in Rio de Janeiro set to completely urbanise the city’s favela (urban slum) communities entitled ‘Morar Carioca’. We speak to spokeswoman and coordinator, Sonia Lopes and look at presentations from the city leaders as well as provide information on the project’s future implementation, risks, challenges, legalisation and conservation amongst others.

A short article on the increasingly present luxury real estate market in Brazil, exemplified in a report which indicated that sales valued at over R$ 1 million have hit new records of 25,000+ annual transactions in São Paulo.

The third in our series of interviews with real estate specialists on the concept of value in Brazil, we speak to Dani Ajbeszyc, director of finance and investor relations of Cyrela Commercial Properties (CCP) on the company’s operation; the associated risks of an inflationary market; bubble speculation; CCP’s definition of real estate value; areas of interest in the country; some brief advice amongst others.

A short article written for the ‘Property Abroad’ magazine on one of Brazil’s major banks offering a housing re-finance ability – the first of its type in the country.

An article examining some of the areas of Brazil that are relatively ‘untapped’ from a real estate investment perspective, offering some particularly interesting opportunities: Maranhão, Espírito Santo and Goiás.

A translation of an interesting article we came across via one of Brazil’s most prominent financial and business magazines – Examen – on the WTorre commercial real estate development firm and recent difficulties in raising finance for the mammoth projects the company is involved with.