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The Vale do Lobo resort is a legendary location on Portugal’s Algarve that has existed since 1962 but is now refreshed...

A study into crime rates, potential rental yield and nearby tourist attractions has listed a selection of the top holiday cottage...

La Manga - a 3,000 acre resort at Murcia in south east Spain - is offering apartments for sale with the...

Research by online agency Yopa has revealed that homes listed for sale within the last 30 days have been reducing in...

By specialist estate agent Sean Woolley Marbella has suddenly become a hotspot for branded residences – villa or apartment developments, in collaboration...

With national and local politicians speaking out about additional homes, and pushing up taxes on them at the same time, the...

Quinta do Lago, the exclusive Algarve residential resort, has announced the property management of One Green Way Residences, under a new...

In this guest piece, Theresa Mohammed discusses the Balfour Beatty v Broadway Malyan decision which highlights the issues with obtaining early...

Portugal has long been a favourite destination for British holidaymakers and investors, but getting there, living there and investing there have no...

Over 5,500 people have applied for the dream job of becoming a holiday home tester in Spain – and there’s still a...

Earlier this summer, I attended the Skift Future of Lodging Forum in New York. The foundation for the summit was the...

It’s very often the case that new developments use all the incentives they can to encourage the first few buyers to...

In this week's roundup, PIT takes a look at the month just gone. Auction House saw record figures in the first five...

During its first four weeks of sales, One Green Way has already sold 30% of its residences.  The developers behind One Green...

Residential property in Cyprus continued to be in high demand in April 2022, with 938 successful transactions completed on the island...

Property in many of the UK’s coastal towns and villages has often taken a pounding and not just from the elements...

Here at PIT, we’re kicking off the month of May with some good news for in-person auctions. Meanwhile, agents witnessed another...

Interest in buying property in Europe remains high despite Brexit, Covid-19 recovery, and a challenging economic climate. We’re expecting this year...

PIT takes a closer look at the latest auction news, from MSP Capital’s brand-new bridging loan to support auction growth and...

On 4 August 2021, the government announced that Section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020, which prevents landlords of commercial properties...

A study by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent, has analysed how a move to city status could bring about a substantial...

Knight Frank’s annual Ski Property Report launched last week revealed that Swiss resort, St Moritz recorded the strongest price growth in...

This week’s auction roundup features the exclusive lots available at Bond Wolfe's and Strettons’ October auctions, and a new mention in...

Expat financial planning firm Blevins Franks held a webinar earlier this month – named ‘A conversation about Moving to Portugal’ –...

Although summer is winding down, the world of property auctions is still very much active, with data from iamsold revealing that...

A brand-new report by Parkdean Resorts reveals the top 10 UK destinations to buy a seaside holiday home, analysing a range of...

One of the Algarve’s most anticipated new developments has witnessed ‘unprecedented demand’ for its flagship Viceroy Residences since they launched in...

A charming skiing resort in Switzerland overlooking the Mont Blanc range, Verbier sits on a south-facing plateau which gives it plenty...

After much anticipation, many British citizens are hoping to soak up some sun in their dream destination. The foreign travel ‘traffic...

This week – today (June 23), to be exact – marks five years since the EU referendum. It was a significant moment...

Quinta do Lago, one of the most famous resorts in the Algarve and a key part of the famed Golden Triangle,...

When it comes to investing in developments and resorts abroad, UK-based development firms might be concerned about finance and how to...

With Portugal on the UK’s green list and slowly reopening to British (and other) holidaymakers, the country is likely to be...

The Florida property market has seen a rise in sale prices for 112 consecutive months, and with lower mortgage interest rates...

On Thursday May 6, a webinar was held – ‘Invest. Work. Live. In Lisbon’ – to highlight the best ways of...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at Landwood Group’s success with auctions, the launch of Strettons’ May auction catalogue,...

Findings from Rightmove suggest that pent-up demand from home-hunters wanting to buy a home in Portugal has finally started to be...

With Portugal now included on the government’s ‘green’ list for quarantine-free travel from May 17 (meaning people will no longer need...

It emerged a few weeks ago that TV stars Ant & Dec and Phillip Schofield are set to lose around £8...

In part one of this two-part special, we looked at how the Algarve’s golf resorts are bouncing back post-Covid and post-Brexit...

This May Day Bank Holiday, PIT is running a staycation special series on a range of topics associated with a market...

For many years, golf has been one of the biggest draws for those coming to the Algarve either on holiday or...

For most people, selling a property means doing so on the open market, usually through a local estate agent. This method...

In this guest piece, the team at One Touch Property Investment outline the cities that are best for serviced apartments. With accommodation...

With restrictions starting to ease as part of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, and the vaccine rollout going well, there...

Recent research from CIA Landlords revealed the top 10 locations where landlords can potentially make the most profits from buy-to-let. Brighton, Bangor,...

Last week, Global Citizen Solutions – a boutique migration investment firm headquartered in Lisbon – held a webinar to discuss the...

Are you itching to get back on the slopes after missing a ski season? If the answer is ‘yes’, you’re not...

Purchasing an overseas property can be daunting and complicated at the best of times, and this is even more so the...

The self-build market is estimated to have declined in value by some 10% in 2020, as a result of the Covid-19...

In theory, investing in the European property market is simple, but in reality it can be a little more challenging. The first...

Last week, the Portuguese government finally outlined its changes to Portugal’s popular Golden Visa scheme, which now come into place in...

People thinking about Vilamoura might first and, in all likelihood, only think about the marina and the hotels, bars and restaurants...

Since the Brexit transition period ended just over a month ago, and the UK ceased to be a part of the...

A number of experts in the Portuguese property market have pointed out that the Golden Visa scheme, which is set to...

As long as the sun continues to shine, the area of Southern Spain, and especially the Costa del Sol, will always...

At the start of this year, you would have got very, very long odds on the prospect of UK-wide lockdowns, mandatory...

Although the global travel industry has taken a nosedive in 2020 as a direct result of Covid-19, not all elements of...

Earlier this year, we wrote a number of articles about the potential of Uruguay as an investment destination. Unheralded compared to...

The UK’s appetite for European property investment in 2020 has not been significantly hampered by the major disruptions of a global...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a major impact on the housing market – including the ski market, with French...

Spain is a very popular destination for foreign property investors, as demonstrated by the high percentage (16%) of international buyers who...

French ski resorts will remain closed this Christmas to stop the spread of Covid-19, but one ski expert believes buyer demand...

In the decades since Portugal became one of the go-to destinations for British holidaymakers, second home owners and investors, one part...

Fashionable Swiss ski resort Verbier is firmly on the radar of international buyers as 2021 approaches, according to Skiingproperty.com. The website says...

The ski property market in Andorra and the Spanish Pyrenees remains stable with strong sales activity, according to Engel & Völkers.  Andorra, a...

With a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic spreading across Europe and national lockdowns being implemented in many countries, you may...

A trio of hotels in Scotland which once catered for a significant number of coach tour guests are now up for...

The Algarve has long been a favourite destination of the Brits, for its warm climate, golf courses, sun-kissed beaches and relaxed...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly affected the ski property market. However, local market conditions are helping resorts in the French Alps to weather...

The ski property market – which relies on international travel and the easy intermingling of people – was especially badly impacted by...

Earlier this year, we explored the often-underreported scandal of timeshare mis-selling and asked how easy it is for people to escape...

Luxury property developer Andermatt Swiss Alps has launched two new exclusive residences to the market: Alma and Frame. This marks the latest...

Porto Montenegro, the luxury waterfront and yachting paradise in the Bay of Kotor, is expanding with the launch of a new...

Earlier this week, we conducted a Q&A with Mark Lightfoot - the founder of ski property platform SnowOnly – to get...

In part one we explored the history of the timeshare and why so many Brits have been tied into unlawfully sold...

Ski resorts were at the centre of some of the earliest spikes of Covid-19 in Europe, including examples of super-spreaders in...

For a time, not so long ago, timeshares were the in-thing – something many invested in or considered investing in. It...

There are historic ties between the UK and Cyprus, the country has dealt impressively – like its near neighbour Greece –...

Wales is the top holiday home location in the UK for 2020/21, according to research from holiday home insurance company Schofields...

With a surge in demand for staycations as people continue to shun overseas travel in favour of domestic holidays, could there...

Palazzo Ricci, a new private residence club located in Abruzzo, Italy, is launching sales this summer. Approximately two hours from Rome and Naples, the 220-year-old palazzo,...

In a recent Zoom webinar, titled ‘Why and where to invest in residential real estate post-Covid-19’, representatives from three different luxury overseas...

Google searches for ‘moving abroad’ have once again returned to the peak search figures of last year. The current Covid climate,...

With it being predicted that 800,000 to one million homes in Spain are owned by British citizens, with 381,000 of those...

Ombria Resort – a ‘world-leading luxury real estate development in the heart of the Algarve’ – recently announced that Pontos Group,...

It’s not a name that immediately springs to mind as a property investment destination, but the Philippines – the small collection...

As lockdown measures across Europe continue to ease, many investors will be thinking about their next move. With this in mind, we...

Earlier this month, the government confirmed that its ban on evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic is to be extended for...

The coronavirus pandemic, with all of its restrictions on travel and movement, has unsurprisingly had an impact on the construction of...

After being hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the global short-term lets sector is starting to recover. New analysis from rental...

It’s not a country that receives much UK attention from a property investment, holiday or tourist point of view, overshadowed by...

Lots of people throughout the years have made considerable sums of money from property, but it seems unlikely that many started...

Emigrating abroad has always been a popular choice for Brits wanting to relocate to sunnier climes for a better quality of...

The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns imposed to control it have left investors thinking about what they really want out of...

In troubled times like this, we all need a little bit of escapism every now and again. And one popular form...

Like everyone else, it's a difficult time for investors in terms of planning ahead and finding out where the safe havens...

The coronavirus pandemic is currently dominating all our lives, and is all anyone can really talk or think about at present.  In the property...

The coronavirus pandemic currently has us all in lockdown and getting used to a new world of social distancing, self-isolating, remote...

A set of luxury two, three and four-bedroom boutique barns have opened in Cornwall, offering a prime lifestyle investment opportunity. Launched by...