When overseas buyers plan a purchase in the western Algarve, the question of banking tends to come up late. By then the focus is on the property and the...
When an overseas couple or family buys in the western Algarve, most of the planning goes into the property and the price. How the ownership will actually...
When buying a property in the Algarve, most attention tends to go to the deed, the surveys and the mortgage. The paperwork that describes how a home was...
Once you have signed the CPCV on an Algarve property, the deal is done in every way that matters. The contrato-promessa de compra e venda is the binding...
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...