Overseas Property
DON’T WALK AWAY!!
Having bought a property in Spain, you then find your financial circumstances have changed over the years. For whatever reason you can’t afford the community fees or mortgage. This unfortunately could be due to separation or divorce from your partner, loss of job etc. It may be as you got older you don’t feel you…
Keith Pintointernational
CUTTING HOLIDAY HOME RUNNING COSTS
The type of day-to-day running costs of a holiday home abroad are going to be similar whether it is a villa or apartment you own or are going to buy. Here are some things to consider which may help you save money: When buying a property think of the distance you will have to travel…
Keith Pintointernational
TAXES AND YOUR SPANISH PROPERTY
They always seem to be in the news!! Organising taxes through an Overseas Arrangement may not be cricket as we know it, but as long as it falls within current legislation, most people logically are going to seek legal ways to reduce their tax bill. Taxes on Overseas Property are different and they come into different categories….
Keith Pintointernational
BREXIT AND BUYING ABROAD.
Well that’s one problem out of the way in this country. Tax changes have happened by 1st April!! Yet, for all the furore and hysteria, however, Buy-to-Let will still go on. ( Not that we’re unhappy because we have seen a surge in interest in Spanish property, specifically for the equivalent of Buy-to-Let, so the reaction to the…
Keith Pintointernational
PERMANENT LIVING IN SPAIN.
Buying a property for permanent living in Spain is different from buying as a holiday home. Why would you be doing this? The two main reasons are for work and retirement. If you are going to Spain to work then the type of job you are going to take up will help you to decide…
Keith Pintointernational
Istanbul property is turning the heads of investors.
The price of property in Turkey is growing at an incredible rate and it falls just behind Hong Kong as the second fastest growing world economy. Purchases made by foreigners increased by 23.8% during October 2015 when compared to the same month in 2014. Recently, the Turkish government has announced that it will offer residency…
Mark Burns
ANDALUCÍA, CHOICE FOR 3.51 MILLION TOURISTS IN JANUARY 2015/RENTAL PRICES SURGE.
British holidaymakers on average account for more than one in five tourists visiting Spain. In January 2016, tourist figures shot up by 11 per cent. Blessed with mild winters and over 300 days of sunshine per year, the region of Andalucía benefits from an intricate infrastructure with excellent national and international transport links and a…
Alex Evans
Did somebody sneeze!!
Did somebody sneeze!! Whoops better hold off from buying a property in Spain. I might have caught a cold!! Yes seems stupid but this is how fragile property-buying in Spain can be when we have scare mongers all around. Now we have the “Will we , won’t we” on the EU question! In the 1980’s…
Keith Pintointernational
HOW DO YOU FUND A HOLIDAY PROPERTY?
1. CASH 2. CASH WITH A MORTGAGE TOP-UP 3. SPANISH MORTGAGE 4. UK MORTGAGE 5. “CROWD FUNDING” These ideas may seem obvious but not everyone thinks of all the possibilities particularly if they hadn’t thought of the combination in point two or five. CASH: This is straight forward. You find a property you pay for…
Keith Pintointernational
Spanish buy-to-let long term rental.
We have on more than one occasion talked about renting out your Spanish property. In this, our latest look at the Spanish market, we are happy to put forward pointers which may help you to think of a property in Spain as” Buy-to-let”. Just as in the UK this is a different proposition from having…
Keith Pintointernational
UK Buyers of Foreign Property Could be Hit by Tax Reforms.
UK buyers of investment properties and second homes overseas could be hit by the Chancellor’s recent raft of tax reforms as well as buyers of domestic properties. In particular, the change to stamp duty announced by George Osborne in the Autumn Statement may affect those buying a second property whether it is in the UK…
Mark Burns
Income from renting holiday homes can be huge.
Holiday homes exempt from cuts to Buy to Let tax breaks With George Osborne having clamped down on the ‘buy to let’ boom through his huge cuts to the property tax breaks, holiday houses are emerging as a new nest egg for those looking to supplement their income through property. While from 2020, landlords will…
Alex Evans
French Property still popular after the Paris Attacks.
Support from Britons and their reluctance to be deterred following the Paris terror attacks means that French property is still very much an attractive option for many. The France Show in London, January 29th – 31st is still showing strong figures for exhibitors within the French property Exhibition with them having to increase on the…
Christopher Walkey
Living with horses in Spain.
Importing & Living with HORSES IN SPAIN The first thing to know is that unlike in the UK, you cannot simply have a property, rented or owned with land and keep a horse on it. Each province has different criteria as to the obtaining of the relevant licences to keep horses and or transport them…
Alex Evans
European property after the referendum
Is 2016 the year that Brits make that step to buy that property abroad, like most financial committments there is a good time to buy and a not so good time to buy. Anyone looking to buy in Europe would be now buying into a flat property market with the exchange rate well in their…
Allen Walkey