Buy house

Are you paying a fair price for your home in the sun, or is the owner being overly ambitious with the asking price? Try using these 5 parameters to find out… 1.

The cost of buying a house is more than just your monthly mortgage payments.

As you might have expected, life in Portugal is very cheap. Nonetheless, it is important to spend some time looking up the cost of living before you decide to buy a property in Portugal, whether you plan to live there or just want to buy a holiday home.

It’s absolutely vital when you’re doing a visit to any potential property to keep these things in mind: 1. Paperwork: There are two documents it is very handy to get from the Land Registry, a Caderneta Predial and a Certidāo de Teor, which respectively provide a brief description of the l

Whether you’re looking at flats, villas or holiday homes, there’s always the decision of whether to buy or rent, but how do you know which is best? It’s worth taking the following into account... Cost of a mortgage vs.

Portugal offers many different types of properties compared with Britain. Before you start looking, you should be very clear on the following: Why are you buying? (holiday home, investment, somewhere to retire…) How will you spend your time there?

Seems like the whole world and his dog are looking for a house in the Iberian Peninsula, if they haven’t bought one already. So what’s the big deal?

So you’ve decided to buy a house in Portugal. Now what? What with everything being in Portuguese and the property market being so different, it can be quite daunting for first-time ex-pat buyers. Fear not!