5 Tips To Know Before Buying Property In Portugal
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- In this video we go over a few helpful tips and some things you might not think of, when buying property in Portugal. If you have any questions feel free to ask us in the comment box below.
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An excellent, well put together advices, no hype,no blaring intro music, just factual advice...thank you.
Thanks John. Appreciate it! 😄😄
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife hi guys just saw your video - fantastic. I am looking to buy this year. You mentioned a good estate agent but couldn't hear which one it isn - was it alstar? Could you clarify please?
@@dambusterproductions thanks so much for this nice comment if you send us an email on lukeandsarahsoffgridlife@gmail.com, i ll send you the details.
yes, that agree with you no freaking annoying music...and lots of excellent advice
Thank you so much for the super important tips to keep in mind.
When you talked about losing the value of the entry into the business that you gave in case you give up on the purchase, I think that if the owner gives up on the sale he will have to give you double the amount you paid to formalize the business. In other words, if you give up the purchase you lost 2 thousand euros, if the owner to give up the sale he will have to pay you 4 thousand euros.
That's correct.
Thanks for the helpful advice. Good to know from people who have done it, and what to look out for.
Number 1. DO NOT buy a property near eucalyptus trees, it will scare the crap out of you every single summer. Cars are cheaper because it is so cheap to get them fixed, a full body refurb and complete high quality respray, Eur650, in the UK £2000+. If you are foreigner always obey the laws and rules, in Portugal or anywhere. We paid about Eur500 for our lawyer and everything was very quick and easy.
Ruins are bad news in that it will take at least a year to get anywhere, even before you start. Best get something that just needs work, like a roof plus, but ruins are cheap for a reason.
We got a really good agent and they did everything including a bank account and everything happened so quickly. We found a great builder and now everything is finished, except a few odds and sods.
Its great to hear you had an awesome experience with the whole process like we did..😃
Hello, can you please tell me your builder’s details as I’m looking for one in the Castelo Branco area. Thanks
@@yashjaja1467 we are not in Castelo Branco. Sorry.
@@yashjaja1467 hi Yash we don't have one but if you join the facebook group "castelo branco district and around including penamacor " they are very helpful and you will probably find one there.
Good luck and stay safe
Thanks for this one, very much good information on getting to Portugal, hope one day soon...
Love you and good luck for you both
Shukrun guys, that was really useful! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. :)
Great vid, thank you both. Good luck with all you are doing.
Thank you :)
Thoughtful, well put together, super informative video. Lot's of the important stuff. Thank you very much.
You are welcome Nelson, thanks for this lovely comment have a great Sunday
Thank u very much for this info..I'm just starting to look around. Much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful! Good luck
Very detailed and honest video. Cheers ! Looking for some info re portugal and your video popped up. Malta power 🙂
Hi Spud thanks glad you found it useful ,have great day
Thank you, Luke and Sarah! This answered a lot of my questions! Love all of your videos!
Our pleasure!
Great information , Glad i found you both :)
Glad you found us too
Misty Blue😀
Great video guys! Thanks for all the helpful hints and tips!
Our pleasure!
Thank you for the video , and i wish you 50 k subs in the foreseeable future !
I hope so too! Thanks Rik that is so nice of you 😁
Your are a lovely exemple. I hope you continue sharing your experience with us. Thank you so much.
Thank you Monica , if this is one of your first videos of ours you have a lot to catch up on😁😁❤️❤️
Thanks for the good advice!
Very helpful video, thank you and good luck with your new life in Portugal 😊🙏
Thank you 😃
Many, many thanks for this very helpful video, all clearly said and laid out.
Thanks Carolle!
This video was absolutely excellent. Thank you so much.
Oh thats so nice. Thank you for this lovely comment Dolores, we have a few more videos that might interest you on our "life in Portugal "playlist
Have a great weekend
you guys are saying every thing that we need to know. keep it up please.
Awesome thanks for this nice comment, if you have any video worthy ideas let us know, we want to put out more videos that are relevant to our subscibers.
thank you guys all the best to you
Smart people and good advice, this video is a gem...
Thanks for this lovely comment Patrick ,hope you had a wonderful Christmas
Hey guys! I really like your videos and find these ones about buying in Portugal especially helpful. We're hoping to move out there this winter and do something similar to yourselves! I saw in another comment to email for real estate tips etc. I'll do that also, thanks!! We have been looking online at properties near Castelo Branco but it is no substitute for going to visit places in person. Already we have learnt many useful things from your videos so thank you so much for sharing your lives and the lovely home you have built with us online!
Thanks so much for this comment and feedback. Hope you had a brilliant weekend , our e mail address is lukeandsarahsoffgridlife@gmail.com and if you think of any other topic that you might find useful to help you with the move, that is video worthy let us know , and if we can do it , we will cover it in the next few weeks.
Thanks for the support and watching our videos , have a great week.
Thank you, one of the best videos I’ve watched
Thank you for such a lovely comment A Marie, have a great weekend
Amazing and helpful, thank you 🙏🏼
Excellent video with great information. THANK YOU so much!💜💜
So happy it helps x x
A very informative and well presented video. Thank you both.
Thanks for watching Jason
I'm saving up to hopefully buy in Portugal by the end of next year, definitely some helpful tips to take on board. Thanks 👍🏽
Thanks for watching Kwame and good luck on your property search
Thank you for all your tips with your pleasant enthusiasm. Well done.
So nice of you. Hope they come in handy Yolande😁
Super, super good tips. Just starting to look for land, probably in the Castelo Branco area. So I found your tips very very helpful and practical.
Glad it was helpful! good luck
Fantastic video. Important practical advice based on first-hand experience. Immediately subscribed!
Awesome welcome to our youtube family Eugene😁
I know this video was released years ago, but the information is very practical and helpful. Thanks for putting it together.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for this feedback
Darn,, you are who I have been searching for. Lived in Portugal for two years now, this is the only time I’ve been informed. I can’t thank you enough. I of course subscribed and need to watch this video again, as well as your other videos. Thanks again.
Hi Sandi happy you found us and welcome to our youtube family x
You guys are awesome, thank you so much.
We are over for a month in 3 weeks for a month, we are staying in Castelo Branco but hope to buy in Coimbra district.
Hope you do some more videos x
Thankyou!! ❤❤ yes plenty more to come.
Good luck on your property hunt!! Xx
Nice video, thanks. Just an informative note: houses built before 1951 don’t require Habitation License , because that only came in force that year
Thanks for the info ,have a great weekend
How to prove some construction are before 1951?
@@sebastienjeanchauvet5590 by the date of property first registration, within the local authority
@@sebastienjeanchauvet5590 just check date of construction with local authority for property registrations (local Conservatoria do Registo Predial) ask to check the property registration (Caderneta Predial) file, can be done online or anyone who knows the matrix article (artigo da matriz), meaning the position number in the official land plot matrix, before buying we can consult that information about who really owns it, if there are any active mortgages (very important and they must be written off before buying act), and other data. Also with Finanças it can be checked for tax debts and other debts
If you buy a plot with a ruin on it you don't need a habitation license Right? But I do need a building permission to renovate it to a permanent house? Or do you just begin to renovate the ruin without any permissions ? 🤔
Saw you both on Cindy Vine’s CZcams session for the first time. Lovely couple. Hope the operation goes well. Definitely no heavy lifting after the operation. Let it heal.
Thanks so much June ❤ operation went great and fully recovered now😃
Very beneficial. thanks!
Wish you the best luck.
Hi guys, :) Really good (to the point) comprehensive vid that reiterates most things we are aware of, as we move into the last stages of retiring/moving to Portugal, purchasing a property, and creating a food forest where we can be more self sufficient.
You have helped with a couple questions and thoughts to keep in mind for us going forward. Thank you so much. Nathalie & Greg
Hi Nathalie and Greg,
Thanks for your comment ,glad to help even in a small way. Today we will be releasing a video on the costs of the bare neccesities so hopefully you'll find this helpful too,and can compare it to the bills in your own country. Have a great day guys and if there is anything else you might want to know to help you with your move just let us know and we ll do what we can to inform you.
Much love
Sarah and Luke
Your videos have been helping me a lot to get prepared to buy a land in Portugal. It's nice to see the great community you guys created with folks like me that need some help to be eyed open. I'm studying a way to come visit the region by car and when that happens I'd love to come meet you in person and maybe be neighbors in the future. I love your videos dealing with your animals, they are funny and entertaining.
Maybe it would be interesting if you make a video about how to get a lawyer and name a few of them. I just learned in this video that I may need one and it was a great tip. Thank you.
Sorry my for broken English, I speak Brazilian Português
New subscriber ! Hugs !
question...are u moving from USA? when do you plan to move...any find info in regards to shipping items to Porto? I am planing to move as well, but I am waiting for my social security case and see how much money I will get...sell 90 percent of my stuff and get out of here...to a new adventure.
Thank you! That was so informative! 💖
Glad it was helpful!
Great post Sarah and Luke, keep em coming :)
Cheers claude!
Sorry, I can’t help financially but did subscribe and am writing a comment in hopes it will help.
Your video was very informational and you both very “ simpáticos “.
Best of luck to you
HI ,what's your name Seattle? 😃supporting us by subscribing and watching our videos helps more than you know, so thanks so so much . Have a great Sunday
Thank you for a very important information. It helps me a lot.
Glad it was helpful Oz ! Good luck
Saw yor channel today when I opened my CZcams and the title of your video caught my eyes. I watched it, read the comments, and I liked it. Subscribe it. I have a dream moving to Portugal someday but for now, I am just watching and gathering information about moving and living a new life in Portugal from channels like yours. I have a lot of questions to ask but for now this is suffice.
Welcome to our CZcams family Adolf, so happy that this video was useful to you. We plan to make more videos to help others with this move so if you have a topic which you think will be useful to you let us know and we might make a video on that subject.
Have a great week and stay safe
Great video guys, a lot of great information and nice personalities.
Thanks so much for the feedback Wilfred and for watching our videos 😃
Nice video guys. My wife and I are interested in buying land in Portugal. You make some good points that I have not known about. especially the fire safety. And of course the crooked sales men.
Thanks David , we love Portugal so much. Have you started looking for property ?Are you looking in a particular area?
Thanks a lot, very good information, fruitful for everybody, wish you goodluck
Thanks Abbasi😁
My mother and I watched your videos for hours yesterday. So interesting! And you are so transparent and genuine. Wish I lived in Portugal so we could be friends. We enjoyed watching you interact with your animals, your love of them is palpable. Wish you much luck and look forward to all your new videos!
Wow, thank you! So happy to hear you are both enjoying them x x x
Thanks, such great information 👏🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for a very informative vlog. Even though I am Portuguese and have lived in Portugal when I was a child, (which by the way was a long time ago.lol) I have never bought land there, so your tips are very helpful as I am investigating perhaps retiring back there.
Glad it was helpful! And we wish you the best of luck for all your future plans
Have purchased property in Portugal.... this is all very good advise !!! Charming couple.
Wonderful Brian Congratulations! and thank you 😁 have a great weekend
Thankyou very much for your wise words......we have a saying in the uk..( buyer beware).... yes of course you have to be very careful do your homework as we say, and make sure youve done all the checks BEFORE you buy.,....... a very interesting article... thankyou again.
Thanks for this sweet message Nathon😃
This video was perfect. Just exactly perfect :)
Thank you 😁
Excellent advice. Obrigada 🤗
😁
Good advice, and Your right, it's all about the Portuguese independent lawyer.
Going for a month this year, thinking of buying something.
Find a nice area then find a house and a piece of land.
Thankyou for the good advice! 😁
Best of luck!
Superb advice guys, I’m just about to purchase land in Lameira and was curious about about the offer deposit, thanks for clearing that up 🙌🏽
New Sub !
Hi TM.. yeah we thought it was a con at first..lol.
Good luck with your land!!🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Thank you 🙌🏽
Honest no non sense great advise.
Thanks so much Ian .Have a great sunday
Thank you, really enjoyed your video
Thank you for watching our videos Lester, have a great day
Great video guys, great content all around.
Much appreciated! Thanks Juan
Great honest advice, thank you!
Thanks so much , this was one of our first videos, you might also find this one helpful czcams.com/video/pYPmCr8Ojic/video.html and Part 2 is coming out tomorrow . have a great weekend Marcus
Please recommend your estate agent to me
Thank you!!!
@@mpc6879 Hi Michael, where are you looking for property ?
Really great advice, and presented nicely, I am subscribed
Happy you enjoyed it and welcome to our youtube family 😁 Thomas
Great info we are looking around Castelo Branco 😊👍🏻
AWESOME good luck with the property hunt 😀
Good honest information guys,I travel with the motorhome and usually spend the winters in Iberia,often thought about buying a small plot to stay with the motorhome,and may look again after Brexit next year,hope your dream is fulfilled 👍👍Paulo
Thanks Paolo and good luck with all your future plans
Hi guys , well done l'm very happy for you. I am maltese aswell. Thanks for all the tips , it very useful to know those things. God bless guys
Thanks so much Vincent a fellow Maltese! 😊
Clear and sensible advice, I would emphasize that there are some really dodgy estate agents out there (ERA), they ask your budget and then offer you properties at twice your target price, the smaller agents are usually better. I used BM and I can highly recommend them even after I bought they still give me advice on bits and bobs 2 years later.. trust your instincts.. Happy hunting and good luck.
That is so true Noddy ,yes BM Imobilaria were very good and told us the truth about properties and land and legalities
That’s what I loved about living in Germany was the “bulk rubbish” nights, recycling everything, from pots and pans to furniture. Some amazing things thrown away! Maybe take a drive to Germany with a van and enjoy!
It was the same when we lived in the Netherlands. Still quite a long way to go though unfortunately. We used to go over to spain pre-covid but it was pretty slim pickings unless you drive closer to madrid.
Thanks for the tips guys 👍
You are welcome.😁
i like this tips, i am living here 23 years, it is all true. Don´t hurry we say "devagar vai ao longe" Greetings René
I will be using that saying! Thanks René!
Thanks, a very useful and detailed info
Thank you Liss.❤😃
Hi, great video ! My partner and I have bought a little farm near Penamacor off the N233 road. Stuck in UK at the moment due to covid and business but really wanting to be over there to sort the farm out ( lots to do ), hope to get over there permanently (eventually )Love the videos, great info , easy to understand . Thank you 😀
Thank you so much Lorna for this lovely message .Hopefully all this craziness will be over soon. Good luck and hope you had a great start of the year
Maybe a strange question but I’ve friends who are looking for temporary housing. She’s a permaculture specialist, wrote a book about it and he’s a cob builder. I’ll
give you my email if you’re interested. She has several videos on YT about permaculture.
Im happy y'all got the property 👍. Y'all had me rolling though that in your native country you don't need deposit. In the U.S the deposit can take from 10k to 100k depending on the price of the house
Hi Rich.. the deposit we were talking about was just to put in an offer..In Malta you put down 10% as a deposit too once an offer is accepted, but you can put offers on as many properties as you like.
Very nice v blog , thanks 4 the tips
I've just bought in Central Portugal and am excited to follow your journey!
Awesome congratulations 😁 that is so exciting, good luck and thanks for watching our videos.
Welcome to our CZcams family Cindy
Awesome video, thanks so much!
Thanks for watching our videos, I love your channel name by the way 😀
Same in Belgium when you put in an offer. Here the advance is 10% of the total sum.
This was something totally new to us, in Malta you can put an offer on anything you want and until you put a deposit and sign ,it's not a deal .
Just subscribed Great information. I'm from California and we have to deal with wildfires. I want to move to Portugal but didn't realize there's a wildfire problem there too. Will definitely alter my options.
Hello and thanks for your support it is much appreciated. You do have to be very careful where you buy land and make sure you are not in the middle of a eucalyptus forest , there are quite a few fires that get started in summer. Most get put out quite fast but there was one 60 km away that took 2 or three days this year to be put out.
You just have to be really careful ,obey the rules and
clear your land.
stay away from lusitanian lands it is deadly in summer and winter
Very useful advices even for Portuguese people like me
Bom Dia ,That is so nice to hear Jose😁
Thank you very much.
Thank you for great info 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video very helpfull .
this is really helpful info thank you
You're welcome!
Thank so much for information
You're welcome 😁😁
Very useful thank you both
Glad it was helpful!
thats great thank you folks
Welcome Tom , thanks for watching our videos😀
Thankyou very much for sharing.
Our pleasure
This is the best advice i've found so far! Thank you so much.
Wow thanks for this great comment, so happy to help ,if there is anything else you think you might need to know just let us know and we could do a video on it, we have a few ideas in the pipe line but it's great to get input from the outside. 😃
You are so lovely couple, thank you so much for sharing
You are so kind Thank you .Hope it was helpful
Great tips thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video thanks!
Thanks Nelson
Thank you great video!!
Glad it helped!
priceless video that will save other people countless hours and time. I hope at some future point you can maybe come up with an even more detailed video. What are the annual property taxes for your land and possible differences between just a house and agricultural acreage (Hectares).
Thanks George and yes in the future we might make a more detailed video hopefully better quality than this one 🤣
love your video !!!! greetings from Belgium
Thank you so much!! happy new year Veronique
😁 thanks , very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
LOL good vid, I myself will be in Portugal in November looking to relocate in retirement. I laughed when they said you need to be aware of the wildfire liability in the area. Here in Northern California our family lost three homes in the Paradise fire in 2018. Believe it or not we're kind of used to it
so sorry to hear this Chris , we wish you the best of luck with your hunt
Nice tips guys!
Thanks Jens!
😃😃sewwa hsibt, mil accent ta l-Ingliz taghkhom. Anyway, good to see a Maltese couple living in Portugal. My girlfriend & I wanna move there as well, she's from Austria & I'm Maltese😎. We've been thinking for a while now to go there, for a couple of weeks or a month to get used to Portugal.
Thanks a lot for sharin this video, will be checking out the others very soon 😁.
Grazzi u nixtiqlkom hajja mil l-isbah fil-Portugal
Awesome, we love it here so much , i wish you the best of luck and thanks
This was so useful, helpful, informative to be honest it was bloody great 👏👏👏, wishing you all the very best for the future, glad you found your peace of tranquility, just subbed up 👍🏻 thank you for a great video, sending love 💙✌️xx
😃 We don't know you but we love you guys already ,we have the best past experiences and memories with some amazing Welsh guys. Let's just say we never met a Welsh person we didn't like
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife hopefully we'll get to meet you in person one day 🙏🏻 we have a CZcams channel we started it to record our journey purely for ourselves and our son (grown up now just starting his own journey in life) to look back on , we aren't very good we struggle with technology but learning as we go, you guy's are so inspiring on all levels so thank you 🙏🏻 send love and cwtches 💙✌️xx
@@brettnbeckvalleyvan to tell you the truth 5 months ago i couldn't even switch on a computer 🤣 but i watched a bunch of videos to help me start this channel and am slowly getting better , if i can do it so can you, I have subscribed to your channel so that when I get some time I can check it out, thanks for all your lovely comments and support.
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife thank you 🙏🏻 but the pleasure is all ours all the information you give is priceless diolch yn fawr 💙✌️xx
@@brettnbeckvalleyvan 😀❤
Thanks. First time watching you. Enjoying it! Thank you. A delight!
I also expected to find left over material cheap. Good advice.
I am learning Portugese, and would like to go to explore this winter (jan-febr). It's a pity I am alone...but exploring is needed anyway:) and I feel the wish! Definity looking for land with flowing water, ability to grow trees, safe from fire, and no flat land.
© how you decided the region? Ah at the end you answer this! :) you travelled around :) And what about the summer heat..how to deal with that? 🌿 - don't know yet how I would like that 🙃
Hi Thank you and welcome to our CZcams family 😃 what is your name?
Yes the only way to find where you belong is to travel around . we did travel around and lukes first choice was anywhere by the sea but we couldnt afford a nice piece of land that was close to the sea, they are all quite pricey but central portugal suited us and our budget and we fell in love with this place that we now own. Love at first sight 😃
Where are you from? You asked about the heat and yes it is very hot here but we are from Malta where it is also super hot but very humid too so this is actually a very nice change because it's not very humid in summer here.
Thank you!
You're most welcome😃
Nice couple,,also your wife when she laught,,,she is so nice,,, thankyou,,l love people of Portugal,,and also all Portugal,,,my favorite country in Europe,and all the world
Thanks x x xPortugal is definitely a really beautiful country x x x