• Brazil has received an increased amount of financial media attention in recent years;

• A country that has transformed to becomewidely predicted as a serious global economic force of the future;

• Brazil remained in a relatively healthy positionthroughout the global recession and emergedout of negative GDP much quicker than many developed economies;

• A healthy currency that is no longer pegged to the US dollar;

• The mortgage market is very lowly leveraged (secured lending represents only 3% of the country's GDP);

• A strong and healthy banking system that has long operated well above the International Basel Accord;

• High international reserve levels;

• Brazil is a member of a diverse world organisations including Mercosul, the G8+5, the G20, SACN and the Cairns Group (with seats at the OECD, OPEC and the UN Security Council likely);

• Decreasingly cumbersome legal system and new laws that areencouraging buy to let investment;

• Countrywide infrastructural developments expected via programmes such as the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) which has a investment budget of R$ 1,500 billion;

• Large scale and institutional investors, including Sam Zell, continue their expansion in the country;

• Improving credit agency ratings from Moodys, Fitch and Standards & Poor;

• Bought to you by the Brazil Real Estate Partners;

• Ruban Selvanayagam (Director) – full time property investor / developer / trader with business interests in Brazil and the UK;

• Specialists in property and land investing in one of the world’s fastest growing economies;

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