Useful Brazil Related Websites

Brazil Real Estate Resources

Welcome to our Brazil Resource page. Here you will find links to general information about Brazil and Brazil Real Estate.

Useful Brazil Real Estate Websites, Blogs or Newswire may apply to receive a link, a reciprocated link will be highly appreciated.

Brazilian Culture

Owing to Brazil’s continental dimensions, varied geography, history and people, the country’s culture is rich and diverse. It has several regional variations, and in spite of being mostly unified by a single language, some regions are so different from each other that they could have become different countries altogether.

Music plays an important part in the Brazilian Identity with styles such as Choro, Samba and Bossa Nova being most popular. Caipira music is also in the roots of sertanejo (the national equivalent to country music). BPM stands for Brazilian Popular Music, which mixes several national styles under a single concept. Forró, a northeastern happy dancing music style, has also become common nationwide. New urban styles include funk - name given to a dance music genre from Rio's favelas that mixes heavy electronic beats and often raunchy rapping.

The Brazilian Real Estate Market

The Brazilian real estate sector has come out of a long period of stagnation. During the last 25 years, construction in Brazil was marred by high interest rates, lack of access to credit and consumer financing, slow economic growth, high inflation and overall volatile economic conditions.

Under this scenario, the real estate market experienced slow or no growth at all, and existing properties could not find sufficient interested buyers. All this, added to a chronic lack of liquidity in the markets resulted in property prices remaining depressed and in many cases undervalued.

However, since the 1994 economic recovery plan (Plano Real) and particularly during the last few years (2003-2008), macroeconomic reforms and sound fiscal management has launched Brazil into a path of sustainable growth. Since 2003, Brazil has experienced record-breaking export performance, translating into higher rates of economic growth and job creation. Low inflation, together with falling interest rates and a stronger currency, have improved consumer purchasing power and together are creating a much more positive environment for investments in the real estate sector. In addition, record numbers of tourism inflows have helped improve the image of Brazil not only as a prime leisure destination but also as a serious country to invest, committed to fiscal responsibility, democratic principles and rule of law.

General Resources

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