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Some brokers (mine for example) do not offer electronic trading on CRV (only two market makers or something to that effect) - so you can only buy over the telephone.

Further to Steve1848's point - what are management doing about the complete lack of liquidity in the share since the changeover to $USD, only two (?) market makers are offering prices now. Much obliged.

I would say that 'Gentleman' Mr. Bear took my fronting comment and ran with it. But then again, I'm not above blowing smoke up my own @rse, and its not like it wasn't the first time he's cribbed all the content for his articles from this board.

Also strongly recommend googling "Universal Properties Brasil Administracao de Imoveis Ltda", fifth hit seems to be what we've bought. "Universal Properties Real Estate works with the finest Legal, Financial, and Technical Agents in the region to facilitate your business needs for investing in Brazil. We are specialists in Bahia Real Estate Developments, and focus on commercial land and city plots for the development of tourism related projects. Brazil is fast becoming one of the most desirable places to purchase Real Estate for personal use and pleasure or for investment purposes. We also work extensively in the states of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal) and Maranhão (São Luís) in the North-East of Brazil." Names of the company's proprietors are: Martin Brink (Twitter @BahiaInvestment, LinkedIn Martin Brink, MBA) - Previously MD of LSE:VIR, he's the MD of at least 3 other Brazilian companys now. Eddy Loomans (less on him, but its easy to find).

Nov 21: Craven raise $3m in placing Dec 5: Craven buys Brazilian land for $3m Are we basically just a fronting outfit running around doing the buying for unseen investors who are paying Craven a premium for buying? We never get a strategy for what they're doing / planning on doing with vast tracts of Brazil as TC pointed out at great length. This is really quite strange.

Propose Len "Karina" McLusky and Frances "Tullycrow" O'Grady be hereby promoted to the rank of arch Craven inquisitors and be hereby dispatched to ask questions at the AGM in Ireland. On a serious note, I'm up for paying a contribution towards travel costs if someone has the time available to go. Definitely be interested in getting some first hand information on what this lot are up to. Has anyone paid a visit to their offices in London yet? Might swing by one afternoon to have a look and ring the bell.

What the deuce?

The directors house is worth about £350k if that's anything to go off. The company report states: Experian has identified the business as SME with aged or insufficient credit information. Clients are advised that where exposure and risk levels are significant we suggest updating a credit report to ensure that the risk grade remains as predictive as possible.

Actually, I take that back - the company report is for Fmcd (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd so that must be where the money has gone. What the relationship (other than incredibly similar names and the same bloke in charge) between the two companies is anyones guess.

That seems entirely likely, nice LinkedIn photo of the guy and he does have some solid credentials. Nothing quite like CRV to incorrectly spell the name of the company you've just give $1.5m to... why one earth would they want to cast a cloud of fog over their dealings...

Off the back of Karina's good work I have bought the Experian report on FMCD which has a few interesting nuggets in there: 1 Director - Olivier Edward Jean DE QUELEN Age of director: 36 (full DOB if interested) and a business/residential address Experian consider the company to be a 51/100 risk and there have been a grand total of 1 enquiry on the company in the past 12 months. And I assume that's me.

Did someone just buy 500 and then turn around and sell them 5 minutes later?

Still here

Thought we were still on AIM? Its the size of the spread that get me, it always seemed a bit counterintuitive that a 734/1 consolidation would result in greater liquidity.

Thanks for posting that Steve. Wait and see, from what I can make out from the Irish High Court website no date has been set for a hearing which may be the actual trigger for any comment from the Co.

Would have thought impending legal action was worth an update. *knowing the answer before asking question* Has anyone heard back from Spark or SI?

Sounds promising - based on Karina1's view of the business sense, plus all round positive reviews for the hotel itself and finally the fact that suitable holiday destinations are in increasingly short supply at the moment. I work in geopolitical risk and when you consider that three of the main near eastern summer holiday destinations (Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia) are now effectively off limits, places such as Greece are going to become increasingly popular. Mykonos, is distant enough from Turkey so as to not suffer the impact to its tourism trade from illegal migration that islands closer to Turkey will suffer it starts to look like a good bet. Basically a solid business, well placed to prosper from security developments, which cannot find funding owing to Greece's economic situation. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I found a current Royalty Sports employee on LinkedIn in approximately 30 seconds. Sales Agent - Royalty Sports - Jo'burg area - Jan 2015-present. Proves nothing, except that his internet search skills aren't up to much.

So the share split has occurred, Google Finance are still showing us as a TEMP with no live price, the spread on here appears to be anything between between 18-27%, thats registering in my HL account - but the system wont allow me to trade (were I wishing to), have to speak to a broker, but any trading is causing massive swings in my portfolio as it jumps about all over the place. My question is: is this the new world order, or will the stability and theoretical liquidity given as the primary reason for the split materialise in due course? Also wheres the $150m ?

Two trades totalling £1500 drop the SP by 9%, hmm