Older villas in prime locations provide interesting investment opportunities for the careful buyer.
Anyone searching for a villa in the Algarve is faced with a lot of options, you can see from our website that it is literally bursting with properties for all tastes and budgets.
Mums do it all these days. Since 1996 the number of working mothers has leapt by almost 800,000, to a total of 5.3 million according to a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures show that the number of women in the workplace with dependent children has leapt by almost a fifth in just one generation.
The change is partly thanks to government initiatives to encourage single mothers to work, but even the number of non-single mothers who work has jumped by 10% since 1996. ONS data shows that just 10% of women now stay at home after having children.
As spring aproaches, we are getting ready to welcome you into our new office in Vilamoura and some additional properties in the golden triangle. Below are some current properties and latest opportunities worth visiting!
This star gazing yoga windmill proves there's more to the Algarve than beaches and golf!
The Algarve enjoys a well deserved reputation as a paradise for beach bunnies and wannabe pro golfers, but there is more to Portugal's south coast than meets the eye. Chris White, Founding Director of boutique real estate agency Ideal Homes Portugal, has come across some exciting and unusual properties during his years of operating in Portugal, but the star gazing yoga windmill in São Marcos da Serra has to be the most unique.
Selling property in the Algarve is fairly straightforward once you know what you’re doing. Like anything else, there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about it. If you get it wrong, it could be an expensive mistake. We’re here to help you to get it right.
Considering your property is probably the biggest investment you are likely to have made, don’t get it wrong when it comes to selling it. Meravista.com offers a series of articles with practical as well as handy tips to help you get your property sold.
Before you extravagantly wipe tens of thousands off your selling price in a bid to entice buyers to look at your property, there's now a much cheaper and sensible way.
'Buy in the Algarve', (a site owned by UK based 'Rent in the Algarve'), now offers a unique walk-through presentation of your property, commentating on all the positive aspects, (often overlooked in written details), then discussed and broadcast live from different backdrops all across the Algarve.
This week’s property pick is a spacious three-bedroom villa in western Algarve, within walking distance of the beach in Praia da Luz. This home offers lots of space and light and features a heated pool set in a pretty irrigated garden.
Located in a quiet area of Praia da Luz, just a short walk from the beach and close to the town’s amenities, this villa offers a wonderfully relaxing atmosphere to come home to. Whether you are retired, coming home at the end of a hard day’s slog, or simply visit regularly, this is the definitive place to relax without the beach-front price tag.
The president of the Association of Portugal Hospitality, Luís Veiga, says the government’s ‘best year ever’ announcement for last year's hotel tourism sector should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, stopping one step before calling it a lie.
No records have been broken in hotel occupancy, Viega assured the media, adding that the figures for last year did not even reach 2007 levels.
