Putting owners and guests in direct contact with one another

holidirectHolidirect, the holiday rental property portal, now have a NEW pricing structure. WE HAVE LISTENED to our property owners and made adjustments to the way we work to ensure we have a platform that works for us all.

The results have been immediate with an increase in our property listings and an influx of reservation enquiries from holidaymakers.

The destruction of Loulé's 'Fonte da Pipa' - a statement from its owners

firePALACETE FONTE DA PIPA TRAGEDY - a statement from Quinta da Fonte da Pipa Urbanizações, Lda.

The fire at Palacete is a true tragedy, and the article on the event is inaccurate, as it indicates that shareholders of the owning company, Quinta da Fonte da Pipa Urbanizações, Lda., never cared for the Palacete and are to blame for this unfortunate loss of architectural patrimony.

Exclusive Algarve Villas January Property Gems

Ea VIllasExclusive Algarve Villas has a wide selection of property for sale throughout the Algarve.
Visit them online or at their offices in Vilamoura and Lagoa to fond out more.

House prices go up in Portugal

9315House prices in the euro area were up by 3.4% in the third quarter of 2016 when compared to the same period in 2015, Eurostat reports.

When compared to the second quarter of 2016, prices in the area rose by 1.3%.

C19th palace burns down in Loulé

fireThe Palácio da Fonte da Pipa, a 19th century building located in the Goncinha area of Loulé has been irreparably damaged by fire.

The palace roof has collapsed and the building’s interior almost totally destroyed by a fire that started just after 06:00 this morning, Tuesday, January 24th

Winter in Algarve - winter lettings in the Algarve

Winter in Algarve - winter lettings in the AlgarveThere is a brand new website promoting winter lettings in the Algarve: www.winterinalgarve.com. The site contains lots of information about spending winter in the Algarve and home owners can advertise their property for letting.

Advertising on the site is free. The purpose of the site is to attract more guests to the Algarve in the quiet season, thus promoting the Algarve as a year round destination. It also contains a section that explains home owners how to rent out their property, as they often underestimate the perks of winter lettings.
Though revenue is likely to be lower than in summer, the typical winter guests stay longer and are often pensioners or early-pensioners that take very good care of a property.

WinterInAlgarve is for now only available in English under the .com and .co.uk extensions, translations to Dutch with the .nl extension and German with the .de extension are foreseen for April 2017.

 

The Green Man Hotel - living in harmony with nature

The Green Man Hotel - living in harmony with natureThe latest update on our living in harmony with nature project, The Green Man Hotel, a soon to be healthy living rural oasis, after the minor border infringement problem we had with our original submission and then the major realignment of the ( Reserva Ecológica Nacional ) borders on our land and the systemic slow progress to get to this point, we are at last reaching the final planning stages for phase one of the project, the first stage of which we will be creating a 100% carbon negative infrastructure for our hotel building and this could potentially and probably will end up being the greenest, the healthiest, the most sustainable, the most eco friendly, user friendly hotel in the world.

Buying Residential Property Overseas in 2017 Post-Trump and With Brexit Influences

Buying Residential Property Overseas in 2017 Post-Trump and With Brexit InfluencesAfter the “shocks” of 2016, how will the overseas property market be affected in 2017 and will the most popular areas still be of interest?

Although the Trump and Brexit decisions did have an initial effect on clients potentially purchasing an overseas property - where some people have deferred until the markets have settled down in the USA after the Presidential inauguration and Article 50 is finally implemented - others have seen this as a good time to look for opportunities and bargains available in the market.