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Market analysis, legal explainers and honest area portraits from our research desk in Germany and our experts in Cyprus. No sales talk, just what we would want to know before buying here ourselves.
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We talk more people out of this than into it. But it does happen, and it can be done responsibly. Here is the traffic light we use before agreeing to sell a property to somebody who has never stood in it.
Nobody buys a holiday home thinking about their estate. But a property in one country and a will in another is exactly the situation that leaves a family stuck. What to put in place, and when.
Two properties at the same purchase price can differ by several thousand euros a year to live in. This is where that money goes, line by line, and how to work out which shape actually suits your year.
Labour is affordable, materials are not always, and the paperwork is the part that ends projects. If you are tempted by a tired village house or a dated apartment, read this before you make an offer.
Urgent sales exist, and they are neither shameful nor a hunting ground. Five safeguards make them work, and every one of them protects both sides of the table at once.
The inspection before final payment is the one moment the builder has to listen to you. Here is what to carry, what to open, and what to write down in every room of a new build.
Buying here is well documented. Selling is not. This is how a foreign owner gets from the decision to sell to money in a European account, and what usually slows that journey down.
Circumstances change faster than a building goes up. Whether you can hand your contract to someone else, what it costs, and why the honest answer is usually found in a clause you have already signed.
Petra and Jens arrived in the same month with the same two hundred thousand euros. Two years later both are satisfied, and their properties could hardly be more different. The budget never decided anything. The calendar did.
Most owners here are away more than they are present, and the house keeps spending while they are gone. A walk past every meter and clause, with a cut-or-keep lever at each stop.
You paid a reservation fee. Then the process disappears into a quiet period that can last a very long time. Here is what is actually happening at each stage, what you should be holding, and where the delays really come from.
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