Can anything put the British off buying property in Germany? You might think the strong euro - currently at €1.25 to the pound - would do the trick, but while new developments in Berlin are collapsing on a daily basis, investors in Berlin property are seeing no such disasters. If anything, the market is buzzing.

Ashley Baldock, managing director of the Riviera branch of Property Germany, a property-search company, says he has never been busier. Charles McCloud, who runs Prestige Riverside, which develops properties on the Lot, says that sales are stronger than ever. What, then, is going on?