| Property Assessment Made Easy
Buying a property overseas is no longer such a daunting task nowadays with the availability of various online tools to assess the potential of your purchase right from the comfort of home.
Buying a house overseas has never been easier. It could be anywhere; a hillside bungalow overlooking the vast beaches of Los Angeles or a state-of-the-art pristine white apartment in Tokyo; as long as it tickled your fancy, it could be yours. With the ubiquity of property trade sites on the Internet, lower airfare and the rising prices of local properties, people are driven to broaden their options for a second home purchase by including properties in foreign countries as well.
If you are thinking of such a move yourself, do bear in mind that despite the widespread convenience, purchasing a property overseas does entail far more complex processes as opposed to buying a house locally. And we are not even referring to the suitability of the property from a Feng Shui perspective. It is amazing how people would rush into the decision to snap up a property overseas without a good deal of research and analysis beforehand.
So how, as a potential property owner, do we evaluate a property for good Feng Shui values when the property is located 2,000 miles away on the other side of the globe? There is no need to scratch your head; here are some guidelines to ensure that your property evaluation effort remains a walk in the park.
With Technology, Everything Is Easter
One of the most glaring loopholes found in general property research is the omission of a complete analysis of the landform surrounding the property. Such an easy task this is with the help of the World Wide Web. With an influx of easy-to-use and accurate geographical navigation sites such as Google Earth, Wikimapia and Yahoo! Maps, you do not have to be present in Tokyo to personally assess the surrounding natural features yourself.
Good Qi always flow from good external landforms. Look for the existence and proximity of favourable natural formations such as mountains, hillside or higher ground around the area. This is to ensure you have good sources of Qi around your property. Also, find out where does the water naturally flow to, and ensure that it is towards an auspicious direction. A flat terrain allows Qi to meander before being redistributed to the property, so make sure one is in close proximity to your house.
Information Is Power
Always demand for more information from the developers. We are not talking about the blueprint of your unit alone as it takes more than that for a comprehensive Feng Shui assessment to be made off-site. So if possible, get the neighbourhood's housing plan, floor level arrangement, and location of the property in relation to the town. Bear in mind that it is your right as a buyer to know more about the property, so do not be shy to exercise this right.
Make a comprehensive analysis of the information provided. Find out the location of the door to your property, the road formation around your property, the floor level of your unit, your neighbor's house and also if there are any glaring negative features outside your property. Sometimes, this information needs to be cross-referenced with your Bazi- an art of personality analysis from your fate of birth- to derive more accurate and 'tailor-made' results.
Catch A Flight
If all those assessments do not render sufficient information to your liking, you can always board the next flight and head over to perform a Feng Shui assessment personally at the physical location. Although this may seem to consume a little more resources and time, it is undoubtedly the most effective way to gauge the Feng Shui and Qi flow of your property.
Gauge your personal compatibility-yes; it does apply an important role- with the property, find out the positive features available within the unit, and other minor or glaring potential problems inside or outside the property. All in all, your trip will not be wasted, as you will have a clearer idea of the suitability of this property to your as a potential occupant.
So if you are contemplating about experiencing your property portfolio, why not include the possibility of buying a property overseas in the mix? With a little research, things may not be daunting as they seem.
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