Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA) is a small town in the east of the Algarve, right on the border of Spain, with the Atlantic coast to the south and the Rio Guadiana to the east. With a bustling town centre and lovely suburbs, this area is still lower-priced than other coastal towns in the Algarve and the cost of living is cheaper too.

Are you still looking for a bargain? As this year is approaching the end, this might be your last chance.

Book your visit now, and you could own your holiday home in the sunny Algarve by 2015, book your visit today.

Please find below a summary of Lagoa real estate, provided by Portalimo. This information was calculated based on the use of records of real estate in the indicated period. 

Objective statistics, Type, Area and Rates, refers only to the types of real estate Apartment, Villa and Townhouse.

Luís Lima, president of the Portuguese association for real estate agents (APEMIP), recently spoke of a lack of high value property for sale in parts of the Algarve, which could threaten the future of the Government’s Golden Residence Permit Programme: Meravista, the Algarve’s biggest property portal, disagrees.

The Government’s Golden Residence Permit Programme was launched in 2012. One requirement to qualify for a Permit is the investment of €500,000 or more in Portuguese property. So far, a total of 1,649 'Golden Visas' have been issued. Of those, 1,563 were via property investments and 80% of investors were Chinese.

During the past decade thousands of Britons purchased off-plan properties in Cyprus but they were faced with numerous problems including:

a) Sales initiated in this country do not appear to be regulated by this country;

b) Properties purchased remain in the name of the developer, and could potentially be re-possessed by the Bank that has financed the development; alternatively purchasers have been tied into loans, often in strong currencies that they have little hope of repaying;

Affordable property in amazing surroundings: where life is peaceful, calm and at one with nature. What more could you ask for than to live in a typical Algarvean, inland town with a dreamy, wonderfully slow pace of life.
Take this opportunity to have a glimpse of such a scenario with properties in São Bartolomeo de Messines.

News service, CyprusExpat has been contacted by a British couple who have been victims of a property fraud in Cyprus.

There are many more victims of this fraud, and time is running out for all of them. Below is the first message received.

London based debt collection solicitors Welbeck Law LLP, has launched a specialist debt collection service for Portuguese condominium managers which traces and pursues condominium fee debtors.

This follows the success of Welbeck’s service for condominium management across Spain.