01 Choose
We walk the property with you, or send you a proper video walk through if you are not on the island yet. We will tell you what we would not buy, too.
Four steps, and your solicitor handles all of them.
Foreign buyers own property here freehold, in their own name, exactly as a local does. The process is short, the costs are known in advance, and you can be living in the place while the paperwork finishes.
How it goes
02 Reserve
A holding deposit takes it off the market. Your own independent solicitor, chosen by you, starts the title search that same week.
03 Pay in stages
Payments follow the build and are held by your solicitor, released only once each stage is finished. On a completed property it is simply the balance on contract.
04 Keys, then the title
You take the keys and move in. The title transfer into your name completes behind you, and most owners are living in the property long before that last signature.
What you should know up front
Freehold, in your name
Not a lease and not a company structure. Foreign buyers hold the title in their own name, and can sell, let or leave it to their children exactly as anyone else can.
Budget 8 to 12 percent on top
Stamp duty, VAT where it applies, the transfer fee, the purchase permit fee and your solicitor. We give you the full breakdown in writing for the specific property, before you commit to anything.
A permit, and you live there meanwhile
Every foreign buyer applies for a purchase permit. It runs in the background and you take possession and live in the property the whole time it is processing.
The numbers people came for
Reported market figures for 2025. They are a shape, not a promise, and we will always give you the real ones for a specific property.
8 to 12 percent gross yield
Short term holiday letting on the coast runs at roughly this range, with peak season occupancy around 68 percent. Long term student lets near a campus are steadier and simpler.
A very light tax position
No inheritance tax. No wealth tax. No tax on a foreign pension. Capital gains on a property sale are low by European standards, and rental income is taxable, so declare it.
Still the affordable coast
Comparable coastal property costs a fraction of Spain, Portugal or the south of France. That gap is the reason most people are reading this page.
Like the sound of it
See what is for sale across the five regions, or just tell us what you are looking for.