Spain: Good News for Holiday Home Rental Owners
From Kyero.com (the Spanish property sales and rental portal): More and more foreign tourists visiting Spain are choosing to rent a house or an apartment instead of staying in a hotel for their summer...
View ArticleSpain: Balearics’ Property Renters Get Good News
Guest Contributor – Will Besga At the end of last month, there was, at long last, an important announcement by the Balearic Tourism authorities: the system of laws that regulate rental agreements need...
View ArticleCyprus Extends Property Amnesty and Announces Date of End to Money Restrictions
Property owners in Cyprus who do not have title deeds due to an infringement of a property planning law may submit statements of intent to legitimise minor planning infringements for another seven...
View ArticleEU Urges Spain to Provide Fair Compensation to Ley de Costas Victims
In a newly released 32-page report, the European Parliament Petitions Committee urges the Spanish authorities to establish a “full and fair financial compensation scheme for all legal property owners...
View ArticleDubai’s Leader Introduces New Law to Protect Real Estate Sector
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid, the Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai announced a new law this week that will “expand the role of the Land Department” to improve real estate procedures, protect the real...
View ArticleTurkey Must Compensate Greek Property Owners in Court Ruling
The Associated Press (Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013) The European Court of Human Rights says Turkey must pay 5 million euros in damages to two Greek nationals who sought to acquire three buildings in Istanbul...
View ArticleFour Key Moves for Smart Overseas Property Buyers
When it comes to buying property overseas, there are three obvious criteria that buyers need to have on their checklist, and one that is often overlooked. Find a trustworthy real estate agent. Perhaps...
View ArticleOwners on Cyprus Must Lower Rents… But No News of Enforcement Plans
The government of Cyprus has passed a new law that will force landlords to reduce their rents on both residential and commercial rents by up to 20 percent reports Cyprus Property News. The government’s...
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Turkey: New Property Rules will Benefit Expats and Overseas Homeowners
Nov. 20: Fethiye Times – A raft of new rules governing property ownership in Turkey have made the country increasingly attractive to foreigners in 2013, laying the foundations for continued growth in...
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Friday Night Dinners Nearly Cost £5.5 Million
Property mogul James Glyn thought a move to Monaco in 2005 and the purchase of two luxury properties would be enough to prove that he was no longer a resident of the UK, never mind that he was very...
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New EU Law on Loans for Buying Homes
The European Parliament has adopted new rules on mortgages, a move that is welcomed by the European Commission. Measures to enforce EU rules that will ensure home buyers across the EU are fully...
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Smoke Detectors Compulsory in France from 8 March, 2015
Photo by Kevin B. A fire in the home in France is more likely to burn undetected than in Norway, the United Kingdom or the United States according to the French Ministry of Housing (Ministère de...
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Canada scraps visa investment programme
In July 2012, Canada signalled that it was unsure of the future of its Immigrant Investment Programme (IIP) by suspending all further applications. In late February of this year, in a move that’s...
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France: The Winter Truce is coming to an end
Portrait of Napoleon in his study at the Tuileries (Public Domain) In France, landlords are not allowed to evict or ask their tenants to move out during the trêve hivernale (“winter truce”) – a...
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UK: Be prepared for new mortgage rules
The UK mortgage industry will see the largest change to regulation in a decade on 26 April 2014, when the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) changes are formally implemented, says the Council of Mortgage...
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Malaysia: Foreign property buyers’ minimum price doubles
The minimum price of property for foreigners wanting to purchase property in Malaysia has doubled in certain areas. Expats in Malaysia can only buy properties valued at RM1 million (about £184k/€223k)...
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Portugal’s expats face land and property ‘grab’
Hundreds possibly thousands of expats have been told they must provide proof that their Portuguese properties are privately owned. If they fail to find the proof, owners of properties in Portugal, the...
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Andalusia to restrict tourist rentals – Barcelona tightens controls further
The government, or Junta, of Andalusia has released a draft agreement that could be the forerunner to substantial changes in the tourist property rental industry, according to reports in the Spanish...
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Buying or selling property in France? Meet the key professional tomorrow
Rencontrez les notaires le 14 Octobre! is a chance for anyone considering buying or selling a property, setting up a will, organising inheritance – in fact anything that requires the service of a...
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Germany introduces big changes to rental market
Two new laws in the residential real estate market will have a big impact on renters and landlords in Germany. On 1 June 2015, a new law in Germany became effective which challenges current conditions...
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