Online PR: Madeleine McCann Used To Sell Holiday Flats
MADELEINE McCann. A marketing tool.
A press release: “Northern Portuguese Villas Make Algarve Properties Look Like a Houses of Cards”
Oh:
Minho Villas offers an investment alternative in the north of Portugal to the possibly burnt out and overpriced Algarve. Various key and coincidental factors including the Maddie McCann episode and Portuguese property market as a whole potentially equate to negative balance sheet potential for new buyers on the south coast. While other areas of Portugal, especially the northern border with booming Galicia (Spain), could see a 360% return in just 10 years according to British Channel 4.
The clincher:
“Of course buying a property which does not appreciate much in value can still be a good investment if the holiday letting yields are good, but with an already noticeable backlash by the holidaying European public over what they see as the wholly unacceptable treatment of Madeleine McCann’s parents and the fact the Algarve is no longer consequentially considered a safe family destination, this is not such a bankable commodity as it once was on Portugal’s south coast. With vagrants targeting an area rich with high value homes, the Algarve seems to becoming a victim of it own success; try finding a vagrant targeting foreigners in other areas of Portugal though and you will be hard pushed”
Using fear and the case of a missing child to sell holiday flats…
Discuss.
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
February 10th, 2008 at 11:28 am
FIRST?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Wow!!! :Razz: :Grin:
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February 10th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I have been telling all my mates to buy now in Praia Da Luz - excape from the tabloid readers!!!
Now going to the other thread where I assume everyone is??
February 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Still nobody here? Will I stay or will I go?
I think they will clear the Mc Cs jsut to get it al out of the press and try and save the tourism.
We have zilch queries for our Luz holiday home this year compared to about 60 queries and full summer solid bookings this time last year.
Whether merely neglectful or indeed much worse, this pair have destroyed the lives of a lot of people in Luz, many of them ex-pat Brits who did not ask for or deserve this. And who helped search, etc etc.
Go to Luz, beautiful spot!
February 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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Katy
I think they will clear the Mc Cs jsut to get it al out of the press and try and save the tourism.
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Sorry don’t agree with you
February 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
morning
why so few people?
Is there another Madeleine’s place, inside anorak?
February 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Unacceptable treatment of the McCanns? WHAT!!!
What about their unacceptable treatment of their daughter?
Im getting angry about this!
February 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I’ll go get angry in the populated thread!
February 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
5 The only way to save the Portuguese tourist industry from suffering from all this negative campaign of disinformation is not to clear them, but instead to prove in court that the Portuguese are not to blame; others are.
On the other hand, as the case might drag on for quite some time, it doesn’t hurt to diversify the customer base for the tourist industry away from the British and attract, say, Russian tourists in their place. Then you guys could unreservedly give British bureaucrats the finger!
February 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
F*ck me readers!!
A thread with ‘McCann’ in the title that has less posts than one about Barack Obama?
Has the world gone mad?
February 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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Mic
February 10th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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temporary
D’ya know ,that the most part of Algarve ,belongs to foreigners ?
And the stronger ones are brits
February 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
i have no interest in visiting this country or bringing my kids there.
absolutly the mccanns were wrong to leave their kids alone - however a crime happened and the police have not behaved or investigated this crime the way one would expect them to treat a case such as this.
it was a total cirus - i wouldnt feel safe as tourist going to this country, if i had a problem - i feel the police wouldnt be much help. poor child - i hope she is found eitherway.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
13 You weren’t asked.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
13-Maria.
You ever heard of Stephen Lawrence?
A young lad murdered in cold blood, and the police investigation proven to be at best inadequate, and at worst… well, words fail me.
If I followed your feeble train of thought I wouldn’t want to live in a country where that happened either. But I do….
Grow up; think about what you say; and above all else….. don’t condemn an entire nation based on ONE isolated incident.
you know… I don’t often get annoyed enough to spend my time on replies that aren’t flippant or sarcastic, but in your case I’ll make an exception.
Unless of course, YOU were being sarcastic, in which case I apologise; and will quite rightly feel foolish for a while…
February 13th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Maria well said
THE REST OF YOU FUCK OFF AND GET AND JOB AND STOP SPENDING ALL YOUR TIME ON REPLYS ASS HOLES