Monthly Archives: June 2009

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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