I live in Portugal - AMA

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Lived here full time for 4 years now (in the Algarve region) - working as a real estate agent for sales and rentals. I also have several properties of my own which are a mix of holidays (booking.com) and long term (minimum 12 months) rentals.

If you want to know what it is like in the Algarve during the current crisis, what is going to happen to your holiday home or holidays in Portugal in the near future - anything really - feel free to chat :)

You are more than welcome to contact me although I know very little about Cascais specifically!

“specific question about property in Cascais” I say.😉

Great! I will try to pm you.

We managed to come over both in 2020 and last year. We tend to stay in smaller places- santa luzia and fuseta the last two times. Its the place we really want to buy a holiday home in but are quite wary now with brexit 😡 have things changed a lot with buying property?

Prices have gone crazy - anything well priced flies off the market within a few days and a lot of cash buyers. I know Fuseta (I actually looked there when I made my first holiday home purchase 15 years ago!). You can still find some reasonably priced properties. Look at idealista.pt rather than rightmove or the other UK portals.

If you like smaller places, have you tried Ferragudo which is more central and a wonderful village - lots of restaurants and cafes, guitar player in the square, right on the river/sea. Also, if you want to rent for holidays, it is far easier there than Fuseta - just gives you more options.

We have one for sale there at the moment which is well priced as the owner has had to emigrate to Canada for work reasons.

en.algarve-sales-and-rentals.com/property-for-sale/apartment-t2-ferragudo-with-large-internal-storage-garage_348762

With Brexit, from outside the EU you can stay 3 months in every 6 months on a rolling basis. You can also get a visa to extend the 3 months if necessary.

Here is a nice video of Ferragudo - no idea who made it but it shows the village very accurately

We have another coming up for sale next to the church but that is more expensive - traditional Portuguese house, renovated - it is really lovely!

Thank you!! We also like Luz - the one in-between tavira and fuseta, not Praia da, although we've stayed there a few times too.

I was thinking of moving to Portugal because my local priest said it was the best country to launder money. Nobody worries too much and it helps the local economy, he said. Would you be able to help with that? I need a boat and a crane because it is mostly in bars. I used my man in Switzerland but when they introduced a sugar tax, Toblerone got hit very badly and now he is behind bars of iron.

Wales is often the measure of size of many things. I recall Portugal is four times the size of Wales but the population is less dense, is that right?

Last question. You did say anything. We have part of our lawn here in the UK which has become more and more taken over by moss but there is no easy explanation for that. What treatment would you recommend please? I am asking for a friend.

ps I mean the density of the people to the area of those countries, not that Welsh people are more dense than Portugese people.