The local newspaper tells us the Portuguese property market has reached bottom, and the green shoots of revival are at last showing. I've asked them where they buy their happy pills because the rest of us would like to take some and get high as well, writes John Clare.

Meravista, the newest property website for the Algarve in Portugal, has always claimed to do things a little differently. When it listed Silves Castle for sale and promoted it in the local media, it did just that.

The rapid growth of the Internet in recent years has changed the way people search for residential and investment property.

Sale of a busy Commercial Premises in Albufeira, Algarve – next to a shopping centre - a sound business opportunity.

I have just returned from a lengthy trip around the UK. I stayed in hotels, but I was never quite sure which country I was in. It was like touring round Europe.

For a bit of fun, and to coincide with the Silves Medieval Festival, Meravista, the Algarve property portal, has put together a comparison of property for sale, then and now. If you stop to think back to what life was like in the past, it’s hard to think of life before computing, internet, mobile phones and electric cars. However that only takes you back around 20 years or so. To go back to the 11th century, your imagination probably couldn’t do it justice.

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The real estate franchise REMAX saw an 18% rise in its Portugal sales between January and July 2013 as it was involved in business worth €443 million.