When I used to sell Australian University degree courses in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in the 1990's we used to have many of the parents of the potential students looking to purchase properties for them to live in while they were studying in Oz. I'm sure that's one small part of the Hong Kong and Malaysian market that Berkeley have hitched their property wagon onto.

If I owned a property in London and wanted to sell it now, then this is one opportunity. I'd be grabbing onto Berkeley's coattails and doing a bit of research to see how to do it.

It's a great opportunity as an overseas investor. Particularly overseas investors with a canny eye for a bargain. Buy the asset in GBP while GBP is weak. With the inevitable outlook that GBP will appreciate as it, um, inevitably has. Then as GBP appreciates, reap the rental income stream in strong GBP. That's a business plan if I ever heard one. And you heard it here first on SE23.com!