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Buying Property Abroad

A comprehensive guide to the foreign property market with best-buy suggestions for investment, holiday and retirement options. There are also tips for checking your calculations and letting your property for maximum return.

Buying Property Abroad

£ 9.99

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Paperback - 224pp

ISBN: 978 1 84490 024 4

Book highlights

  • Step-by-step guidance on the buying process
  • Jargon-free information on contracts, taxes and how to hire lawyers and builders
  • Advice on how to avoid scams and rip-offs
  • Profiles of key destinations

For recreation, retirement or investment, buying property abroad has never been more popular, and over a million Britons now have homes in another country. Unfortunately, buying abroad is fraught with difficulties and different cultures, languages, currencies and laws make expert advice essential.

Buying Property Abroad takes an in-depth look at France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Florida, as well as considering emerging markets in the Mediterranean, the Balkan States and Eastern Europe. It outlines the sort of property you are likely to encounter; looks at local taxes and how much you'll have to pay; examines local law and how this relates to matters such as inheritance, insurance, liability and land searches; considers the true cost of holiday homes - including maintenance charges, utility bills and management fees; and looks at the financial and legal implications of long-term residency, with particular reference to retirement, taxation and health care.

This essential guide can help you realise the dream of owning somewhere in the sun, while making sure it doesn't turn into a nightmare.

'has the potential to save you (and make you) a great deal of money’ Homes Worldwide

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