Thanks Cheryl, I'll try Harris but suspect it wil be a custom project per country and the client doesn't have that time available. (Or budget at this stage, although they will, later).

Virago - thanks, I'll drop by Melbourne Uni this afternoon and check out their library.

ChrisB

Thanks everyone for your inputs so far.

The most helpful finds to date have been Virago's EU Housing Guide and AndrewS' pointer to the Berkeley library which has links to a range of overseas data sources.

Funny, you think you can speak a few languages until you start trying to read statistical extracts from Government Depts. Fortunately most of the EU countries post in English as well as their own language, but in most cases the English translations are only a subset of the home country language files, Schade...

The Real Estate agency links aren't greatly helpful as mostly they are about buying, selling or renting, not statistical information.

Jose's Eurostat yearbook is a lovely piece of work, unfortunately at very high level so it's difficult to be very precise about much, but it does give loads of useful background info. Talking to MNCs in parallel industries is a god idea, unfortunately many of them may be potential competitors, and the sector we are looking at is terribly underdeveloped, very "cottage industry" still. Hence the global opportunity!

Will keep this question open a couple more days in case anyone else finds something exactly answering the brief.

Thanks.

ChrisB

Jim - Muchas gracias. ¡Eso es una gran ayuda!

Aria - some great info at the world Bank links, too.

Thanks.

ChrisB

Thanks everyone, this has been very helpful. Hope now we can move the client on to the next stage where they get budget to perform dedicated in-market territory research.