Once the deed is signed and the keys change hands, the one-off costs of buying give way to the recurring ones, and for most owners in the Lagos and western...
The escritura pública de compra e venda is the day a purchase actually completes in Portugal. It is the signing of the deed at the notary or at a Casa...
Once a Portuguese bank approves your finance, what you receive is a formal document: the proposta de crédito habitação, accompanied by the European Standardised...
Once the keys to a property around Lagos or the wider western Algarve change hands, a quieter list of tasks begins, and insurance tends to sit near the...
Buyers arriving from the UK often expect a building survey to be a routine step, the way it tends to be back home. In Portugal the picture is different....
Many overseas buyers who fall for a property around Lagos or the wider western Algarve cannot easily be in Portugal for every step of the purchase, and...
