Largest Drop in Rural Land Prices Worldwide? The Ukraine
April 16, 2009 by Grant Gannon
According to this ABC Australia report, land values around the world are plummeting. The hardest hit country? The Ukraine.
The value of rural land in the Ukraine has plummeted a staggering 75 percent. The Australian news report indicates that the basics of the problem are the same there as everywhere else: thanks to the credit crisis the previously well-lined pockets of investors are no more. The report also references, but does not detail, a 5 percent drop in land values for the United States and Great Britain.
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