American Chamber of Commerce Portugal

Have you booked your holidays in advance? If you haven't done it yet then this piece of information may be of your great help to you. You will get a fair amount of knowledge about Algarve which is the southern most part of Portugal. You can also obtain information about Algarve through various websites but when you will visit this place, only then you will come to know that this place is actually more beautiful than described by the websites. Vilamoura Properties has emerged as one the largest and most opulent real estate of Algarve. As you land at the airport in Faro, you can reach this place in hardly about twenty minutes. ...

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In 1549, Tomé de Souza of Portugal founded Salvador and Salvador de Bahia became the capital of the newly created region. The moment we think of Bahia, the colorful picture of Samba, people with passion, chaste beaches, crystal clear blue waters and lively nightlife pops up in our mind. Get swathed in the multihued afro Brazilian culture of Salvador, the religious life, music, dance, folk art, and the culinary arts.Bahia has become one of the major destinations for real estate investment by local people and internationally as well. The world has woken up to the real estate potential in Bahia but owning or renting your dream den in Bahia is no longer ...

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Portugal is a European country that caters to a wide market for the purchase of properties by buyers from overseas.  A significant amount of the real estate available for sale within the Portugal is bought by foreign investors for private housing or resort development. On the other hand, many foreign buyers purchase properties in Portugal for second homes, retirement or for a change of life style.   Properties in the country are gaining in popularity because of their excellent quality and because of this, prices have risen each year by 10 to 15 percent. If you want to own a property in Portugal, there is a wide selection available. Property for sale in Central ...

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J. K. Rowling is the English writer who has authored all seven beloved and widely read Harry Potter novels. At age 41, her rise to fame and fortune is inspiring. She has sold over 325 million books. The final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was the fastest-selling book of all time.Her fortune is estimated at $1 billion. She is ranked as the 136th richest person in the world. In 2006, Forbes named Rowling the second richest female entertainer in the world and ranked her as 48th on the 100 most powerful celebrities list of 2007.When this all began in 1990, however, things were very different for J. ...

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They had built in Portugal and went through what seemed like a long drawn out process and this scared us a little so we chose to purchase an existing house rather than build as we didn't want to go through the nightmare of a long drawn out process.Fate however had a different idea on what we would eventually purchase after we visited a beautiful piece of land without a single building on it, we had immediately fallen in love with it.Our guide at the time a Mr Bert Snijder of Alentejo Home Real Estate offered us assurance that they could assist us with the building process and after weighing the pro's and ...

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When we are speaking about buying a property in Portugal, we are speaking about our dream which took a long time before being finally realized, but we are speaking also about various dream features in the property which probably could be useless or which at least costs a lot of money or a lot of time in the maintenance.Of course a basement waterfall and grotto is a practical and useful addition to any home, that is pretty much the only thing standing between you and the playboy lifestyle you have always dreamed about, right, but who is going to clean it?It is easy to fall in love with certain features of a ...

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We are Imobiliaria in Portugal, that is to say a registered real estate agent and we have recently discovered that Portugal is expanding, which is handy considering the amount of people who seem to want to move here from the north of Europe and beyond, Indeed many Portuguese nationals are also returning from such places as Mozambique and South Africa also a fair number of Brazilians are making the move here.But how is Portugal getting bigger, are the borders with Spain shifting, volcanic activity tectonic movement or is there some other-worldly explanation for these phenomena. Before you pack your bags and head for the new land grab with your covered wagons let ...

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And because we did not want to live a great distance from our children we decided Portugal would be the obvious choice as we both spoke Portuguese.We had travelled through Portugal before and knew the area north of Lisbon however the warmer climate of the south met our needs a little better.After we had travelled through the Algarve region which we found crowded and spoilt by tourism we finally visited the Alentejo region, specifically the south-west Alentejo.This is where we decided to settle and purchased a large block of land that by Dutch standards would be classed as extravagant, However we needed to purchase a large block in order to build our ...

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Buyers considering buying property in France and Spain need to also take a good look at Portugal. The real estate market in Portugal has been quietly booming and remains a good strong place to invest in property abroad. For those who are seeking Golf property Portugal is second to none. The future is bright for Portuguese real estate as the economy grows and direct inward investment in the property market increases. So why else buy property in Portugal?Portuguese investment property.Portugal remains of consistent interest to overseas property investors, those seeking a home for retirement and second home buyer's .Despite strong competition from areas such as France and Spain along with emerging markets ...

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Due to a whole list of property tax reforms, weather, scenery, accessibility and some very fine wine, Italy has long been on the preferred list of retirees and property investors alike. This, coupled with anenthusiastic approach to tourism from the government, makes the buy to let returns in Italy attractive. The regions of Italy are indeed varied from the mountainous regions of Calabra to the seaside resorts of Le Marhe insuring that whatever your taste you will find a place to your liking.The architecture is similarly varied and is a reflection on the region you really can tell where you are by the local houses and government buildings.The Mediterranean island of Sardinia ...

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