France has been an interesting case when it comes to the assessment of the property fortunes of different countries. While some markets have struggled and others remain strong due to their status as emerging markets with cheap bargains, France seems to be somewhere in the middle.

For a while home information packs have appeared to drop off the radar, following the final implementation of them as a home-seller's requirement in December for small homes. But this week has seen all that change, something that may concern those looking to invest in property as they wonder how a shifting situation may affect their buying and selling requirements.

For every analyst who says the Spanish property market is dead, another states that it is only slumbering. Some have suggested that the market is a busted flush for investors, with falling prices and overdevelopment meaning the good times are over after the recent boom years.

When the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) delivered its verdict on interest rates for this month at noon today few would have been surprised. It decided to keep the base rate at five per cent, following its vote to cut the rate last month.

Location, location, location may have been a well-worn phrase even before it became the name of a TV programme, but many will wonder whether this is indeed the be-all and end all for those investing in property, either as a place to live or as a place to rent out.

The overseas property market has plenty of diversity, which may be both a weakness and a strength. For those failing to carry out the right research, the enticement of an investment without a full understanding of the type of person who might occupy it, for example as a holiday let, could end up in failure. Should errors be made over the location, accessibility to an airport, lack of proximity to a beach or size of a property, the money spent may not produce a good return.

These are interesting times in London for the property industry to say the least. While both the commercial property investment industry and the residential sector (both buy-to-live and buy-to-let) have been grappling with the credit crunch in recent months, the longer-term issues in London remain of concern to many.

There is supposed to be a credit crunch going on, but some parts of the world, it seems, are not getting the message. While Spain has outlined a major rescue plan in a bid to boost its property industry, the Lusophone countries seem to be attracting the big buyers.

There's pretty good news for buy to let investors in this rather terrible set of statistics.

Or maybe not. Yet another silly theory debunked.