Make sure you don’t sign an agreement of any sort in Portuguese/Italian; you don’t know what you are signing, even if they say its just authorising permission to hold the [...]

Check with your own solicitor/lawyer that the land actually belongs to the builder/developer, as I have experience of asking the builder for a Certidao de Registo Predia, he couldn’t produce [...]

Some of you may have seen the ITV programme on Friday, November 18th 2005. British people buying in Spain had trusted the agents selling them the land and some of [...]

Have a look at www.asemana.cv (translate it to English) there was an article in there about legal ownership of land. Do a search on their website and proof of land [...]

There is an independent English speaking solicitor on Sal, in Santa Maria, he is originally from Portugal but has been working on Sal for over 2yrs. He can deal with [...]

A number of agents/developers/ builders want you to use their own lawyers, you don’t have to, you can get your own, either out there or by using one in your [...]

If you have visited Sal and decided on a property that you want to buy, you may want to consider Power of Attorney (PofA). You will need to arrange this [...]

The following amounts have been quoted to me by the Fiducial (Solicitors) as the amounts I would need to pay if purchasing a property 50,000 euros (5.500.000 Cape Verdean Escudos called cve for short).[...]