We thought we’d share this video; it’s an exclusive interview with Tiger Woods about his investments outside of the golf course. He is a co-investor in a soon to be constructed $1.3 billion exclusive private golf residential community called Albany Golf & Beach Club in the Caribbean island, Bahamas.

He also talks about the Dubai property market & Tiger Woods Dubai, the first Tiger Woods-designed golf course and resort to be located in Dubailand.

Although he did not invest early, he is owns Google shares and is bent on holding.

He finally clarifies that he did not buy a $65 million New York, Hamptons seaside estate as this article suggests.

England football legend, David Beckham will be opening the first “David Beckham World of Sport,” complex in Natal, Brazil, to coincide with their hosting of the 2014 World Cup. This will be part of a bigger resort, which will include a “Rubens Barrichello motor racing school,” but no plans for a “Spice Girls’ academy of dancing,” as far as we know just yet.

Beckham has already set up professional sports academies in both London and Los Angeles. Whilst in Brazil for the launch, he said, “I am honored to be associated with this incredible project which will build world-class sporting facilities in Brazil, hopefully having a major impact at a local level and internationally”. Beckham hopes to give opportunities to gifted but disadvantaged children, rather than teaching them how to play the game. Although perhaps Mr. Beckham could learn a thing or two from some of his young charges judging by his recent performances.

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^{Sandbanks, a dune off the coast of Poole in Dorset England has the fourth highest land value, by area, in the world}

Every now and then, we come across something that makes us wonder as to the sanity of the property market and behaviour of some estate agents.

A small dune in Dorset recently hit the news as being the fourth most expensive place to buy a property in the World with average property prices at £850 per square foot. Correct, the world. More expensive than Tokyo or Paris. A dune. In Dorset.

Putting this in context of global property prices; Prime Central London properties currently average at about £1,300 per-square-foot; in Upper Manhattan, New York £950 per square foot; in Moscow about £900 per square foot, in Sandbanks, Dorset £850 per square foot, in Paris £800 per square foot & in Hong Kong £785 per square foot.

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18-year-old Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter film series has just paid $4.3 million for a condo in New York. The condominium in question is a glass walled, fifth floor apartment in SoHo, a bohemian New York district.

It seems unlikely the film star will actually move in, as the apartment was almost immediately offered on the rental market by Gilmore Jacobs, a firm set up by Radcliffe’s parents in 2000 to maximize his earnings – asking rent $20,000 per month. Harry Potter joins a growing list of wealthy Brits buying in to the New York luxury condo market and taking advantage of the current weak dollar.

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A special meeting of Aberdeenshire council overwhelmingly backed Donald Trump’s plans for a £1billion golf resort in north-east Scotland this week.

Mr Trump’s spokesman, Mr. George Sorial said he was “very pleased and very grateful” for the council’s backing and that the support was a “very big step in the right direction”. Mr. Sorial had warned previously that failure by the council to endorse the plans could jeopardize the entire scheme. The meeting was largely symbolic however – last week the Scottish government said it would have final say on the application after being previously rejected by a council committee on environmental grounds.

The council also voted to unseat Martin Ford as chair of the committee which, on his casting vote, rejected the application last time round.

The leader of the Scottish National party group on the council, Joanna Strathdee, said councilors needed to restore the business and wider community’s confidence in the planning process and show the world that north-east Scotland was open for business, environmental issues be damned.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have bought their own Island in “The World,” Dubai’s ultra-exclusive offshore development. Dubai-based celebrity and society web site Ahlanlive reported that the film stars have bought an island with a view to turning it into a showpiece for environmental issues with the hope that it will encourage people to live a “greener life,” – no comment.

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After our in depth look at dubious building developments in Eastern Europe, Forbes magazine has jumped on the band wagon and gone a little up market. In that vein, we decided to present some of the most expensive properties in Eastern Europe. Some are currently for sale, some are just in need of an idea to turn them into money makers and some are just plain expensive.

Sotheby’s International are offering this gem on the “Cote D’Azur of Baltics,” Latvia. Price undisclosed.

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It seems to me, the Dubai city planners may have watched the Kevin Costner movie, “Field of Dreams,” one too many times. But they weren’t far wrong. They did build it and they did come. In fact, they are still coming and the planned developments over the next few years should bring even more. I found some interesting photos of Dubai which show the development over the last few years. The first one is taken in 1989 and the second in 2005. Spot the difference? There has been quite a stunning amount of development in Dubai, and these two photograph, seen together, graphically demonstrate that fact. The next few are some projections of future developments. It’s hard to see an end in sight, with the ‘Palm Islands” and “World Archipelago” developments pushing the boundaries even further.

Dubai 1989:

Dubai 2005:

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Football legend, Sir Bobby Charlton, one of the most well-known figures in English and World football was in Dubai today, to officially launch the third season of Manchester United Soccer Schools as part of the Dubai Sports City project.

Details of the new program, which is expected to be the most successful to date, were announced at the launch event, which was attended by not only Sir Bobby, but also representatives of Dubai Sports City and presenting sponsor Milo. This is the third season of MUSS skills development sessions and is set to attract over 750 boys and girls from across the region, with over 60 nationalities creating a truly multi-cultural sporting environment.

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DAVID Beckham and six other England footballers have each made £1.9million on luxury villas they have never seen.

They splashed out £600,000 on the six - bedroomed, eye-popping properties off Dubai four years ago.

Now, with the site still under construction, their holiday homes are worth £2.5million.

Stars Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, Kieren Dyer, David James, Wayne Bridge and Gary Neville joined England captain Becks in buying retreats on the stunning Palm Jumeirah development.

England goalkeeping coach Ray Clemence and other backroom staff also got in on the act and have now made a killing.

The England squad visited Dubai for a pre-World Cup get-together in 2002.

They were shown detailed plans of the project, a vast man-made reef in the shape of a palm that is being built off the coast, and offered a discount price on properties there.

Aaron Richardson, of project developers Nakheel said: “Many of the players were immediately impressed and bought signatory villas at our discount £600,000 price.

“Now they are laughing because they are worth up to £2.5million before they are even finished.

“I know that those players who did not take advantage of the initial offer are pig sick. The properties are now sold out.”

The villas, only accessible by boat, are patrolled by security staff 24 hours a day.

Other celebrities who have bought a Palm property include Italian striker Francesco Totti, Formula One driver Michael Schumacher and Bollywood actor Shah Ruhk Khan.

Some of them were attracted by Dubai’s strict privacy laws which ban intrusive photography.

Source: TheDailyRecord