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Category Archives: Property & Real Estate

  1. Want a home abroad? Go on-line for free tickets to A Place in the Sun Live property exhibition

    Properties for A Place in the Sun

    If you’re thinking of buying a property overseas, you can’t afford to miss A Place in the Sun Live, the UK’s biggest overseas property exhibition taking place at Earls Court London on 30th March- 1st April 2012. As well as the opportunity to [read more]

    January 26, 2012

    Posted in Overseas Property/Real Estate, Worldwide.

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  2. New homes at Eléa Estate, Cyprus

    Eléa Club House

    Now is a great time to buy a property in Cyprus as a new law passed in October 2011 provides for a reduction in VAT on new-build properties for those wishing to permanently swap the British winter gloom for Mediterranean sun. The timing [read more]

    January 23, 2012

    Posted in Cyprus, Golf, Property & Real Estate.

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  3. Putting homeowners or developers together with the right architect and landscape designer isn’t always easy

    Sandy Mitchell of RedBook

    The RedBook Agency, which launches today, is a new service that helps clients from around the world find and select the ideal architect and landscape designer for their project from among the brightest talents in Britain. British architects and landscape designers enjoy a [read more]

    January 18, 2012

    Posted in Property & Real Estate, UK.

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  4. Barack Obama’s Motown pledge prompts high rental yields for property investor

    Detroit

    The property investment market is ‘motoring’ in Motown following a pledge by President Barack Obama to provide massive financial support for the regeneration of the State of Michigan’s biggest city, Detroit. A growing number of UK investors, disenchanted by the performance of the [read more]

    January 7, 2012

    Posted in Investment, USA.

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  5. Have yourself a very Spanish Christmas in your home abroad

    Los Tres Reyes - The Three Kings - are essential to the Spanish Christmas festivities

    One thing is certain if you spend Christmas in Spain – it is going to be considerably cheaper than it would be in the UK. It’s not that the Spanish do not celebrate the Christmas period but on the whole they haven’t gone [read more]

    December 16, 2011

    Posted in Property & Real Estate, Spain.

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  6. UK Residency Rules And Connecting Factors

    money

    Expatriates are used to counting days to establish their tax residency. Many countries including the UK have the ‘183 days a year rule’, while the UK also has the ‘90 days a year over four years’ rule. It is not always as simple [read more]

    November 26, 2011

    Posted in Tax, UK.

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  7. A life-saving boiler service for your home

    An engineer in the process of fixing a boiler

    This information struck home when it arrived on my desk as not long before, our boiler at home had received its annual service and was, quite literally, condemned. It had lasted 17 years and it turned out that it was leaking fumes like [read more]

    November 16, 2011

    Posted in Home Improvement, Property & Real Estate.

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  8. The Residence – luxury holiday homes with a conscience

    development

    Combining leading-edge sustainable design, a boost to the Cornish economy and a shared ownership model which makes 5-star living more affordable, The Residence at the award-winning Gwel an Mor resort in Portreath is an exciting new development designed in harmony with its own and [read more]

    November 11, 2011

    Posted in Eco Homes, News, Property & Real Estate, Sustainable Development, UK.

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  9. The pros and cons of renewable heating for your home

    Wood chips and hand

    As a householder considering how to save energy in your home, once you’ve improved the efficiency using measures such as insulation and double glazing, the next step may be to install a microgeneration system to provide heating and hot water from a renewable [read more]

    November 11, 2011

    Posted in Eco Homes, Home Improvement, News, Property & Real Estate.

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  10. British Consulates reveal: We’re not Directory Enquiries for travellers

    street

    Recent enquiries received by Foreign Office staff in Spain include a request for Phil Collins’ telephone number, while a man asked staff to contact his dominatrix after she had left him stranded at the airport. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is today reminding [read more]

    November 10, 2011

    Posted in News, Property & Real Estate, Travel, Worldwide.

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