Property

Property pages for expats – get advice on how to obtain, manage and dispose of property here.

British Expat Property Adverts: Buy properties worldwide through our property advertising service, brought to you in partnership with The Move Channel! We can show you tens of thousands of houses, apartments, commercial building spaces and land plots by location, price or type of title.
Investing in property: "Location, location, location - known as the three most important factors when buying a property, and it is easy to see why. The location of your property dictates how much yield you get, and how much capital growth, which ultimately decides how well you do." Alan Forsyth explains how people still get it wrong...
Finding Property on the Internet: "Today almost everyone looks for property and homes on the Internet, since you can see pictures, features and prices of properties from the comfort of your own home. It can be hard to find exactly what you are looking for among all the ads, pop-up windows and millions of search results. The other pitfall is gauging the reliability of information you find on the web." Russ Martin shows how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
French Mortgage Search Engine: Need a mortgage for your French property? Why not use FinanceInFrance's Mortgage Machine to find the best deals for you?
Insuring your UK property: Expats have been asking for ages how to insure their UK home while it's unoccupied. Now Intasure are offering a new product, underwritten by Lloyds of London, for people who live overseas but also have homes in the UK. Get your free no-obligation quotation here!
Insuring your holiday home: If you have a holiday home, how do you know what's happening to it while you're away? To help give you the peace of mind you need, Intasure offer holiday home insurance, underwritten by Lloyds of London, for people with holiday homes in 25 popular holiday destination countries. Get your free no-obligation quotation here!
UK Buy to Let: "For expats who have UK buy-to-let property, now could be a good time to look at the rate you are paying on any UK mortgage that you have. The buy-to-let market has developed enormously over the last few years and the rates available for buy-to-let property in some cases beat UK standard residential mortgage terms." Matthew Wright of International Mortgage Plans explains why buying to let is an increasingly attractive proposition.
Selling your home in the UK: "Selling your house used to be a simple case of putting the property on the market and waiting for it to be snapped up. In fact people were often advised not to bother redecorating as most new owners would want to redecorate anyway in their own style. However, things have changed - the housing market has slowed down and buyers have become more fussy." The Ed advises on the ins and outs of selling your UK home...
UK Property Links: Returning to the UK or selling up and leaving? Check out our resources here.

Thinking of letting your UK home?

If you're living overseas or about to move, you may be tempted to rent out your UK home in your absence.

Before you do, check out TrashedHouse.com – there's loads of advice on there about letting or selling your home in the UK, plus a cautionary tale of how much destruction, filth and misery a tenant can cause.
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Moving to Spain

If you're thinking of buying property in Spain, there's loads of advice available here from people who've gone ahead and done it. Find out how to maximise the pleasure and avoid the pain!

Canada

You can find out more about planning your move to Canada here.

Don't Bring Wigan With You!

A cautionary tale by Ginnie Bedggood in the Dominican Republic, worth reading by anyone who's planning to move to the developing world.

Moving to Bulgaria

Considering a move to Bulgaria? Find out more about the prospects here!