The all important facts regarding property investment.

This section is worth taking the time to read as it is the personal experiences of the original founders of the www.living-cyprus.com property for sale and moving to Cyprus website. They share there experiences with you in order that you may be better prepared before your exciting but time limited visit.

This will save you time, money and energy whilst visiting the Island as all the leg work is done for you, including transportation and costs for viewing your apartments and villas for sale so your valuable time is spent actually viewing what you specify. The organisation referred to on this page is the same one who will now assist you in Cyprus.

3 Bedroom Villa/Bungalow - Ref Nº: LIMAS-VRES-0355

Area:Limassol   Description: Private swimming pool Bedrooms:3 Price €: 135,000

"Before we left the UK to look for our dream home in the sun, we did as much research as possible, without being in Cyprus itself, on the Internet and from other commercial and private publications. We made enquiries with the property agents to let them know of our intention to visit the island, supplied them with our details of flights etc, and fully assumed, no, expected the property agents to have good quality property lists available for us, so we could go and view at our leisure after our arrival.

What a shock it turned out to be with no property lists and details prepared, because properties on the island are selling so fast, that any list would be out of date within one day!

We spent the next few days trekking round the estate agents and being taken to view properties which we found unsuitable for us. This was after explaining what we were looking for and our budget. Doing this only suceeded in wasting our time which was quickly running out. A lot of the properties advertised in the estate agents windows did not actually exist. Neither did the prices!! Having already taken up seven days of our visit, we were very tired from the travelling around in the heat. The process was proving more difficult than we thought and we still hadn't found a villa for sale that suited our tastes and budget.

3 Bedroom Villa/Bungalow - Ref Nº: Anafotida

Area:Anafotida   Description: Private pool and garden Bedrooms:3 Price €: 110,000

Quite by chance, we were referred to an organisation that we found genuinely wanted to help us.  The difference was they listened. On the second day of viewing properties with this organisation, we found what we were looking for with a sea view, and, in the price range.  The agent with us knew this is what we wanted and made the offer, confident we would have clinched the deal. The day after we found the property had been sold earlier.

We had two more properties to go to see that day. We were then contacted by telephone and told that another of the properties had just been sold. Off we went to the one remaining property......

At this stage, it was a building site but we had all the plans and could visualise the finished properties. It was a small development on a mountain with a sea view and away from the tourist area. After all, we are eventually going to live there which is very different from being a tourist. Returning to the developers office we sat in the boardroom and discussed directly with the architect what exactly everything would be and the building specifications. We asked for some slight alterations, an extra window or so, spent the next two hours discussing the pro's and con's of the property, made our decision and discussed the very important terms of payment and what choices we would have for internal finishing.

Everything was agreed, and we paid our reservation fee there and then. Had we gone away to deliberate some more, there is no doubt the property would have been sold by the following day.

We recommend you do as we did and use a currency broker who saved us hundreds of pounds! Our bank wanted to charge us a fortune and the exchange rate was not good to say the least. We got a better exchange rate with no fee's to transfer the funds to our solicitor in Cyprus, using a broker.

We decided to set up this site to advise others and pass it to our sons Paul and Craig who wanted to run their own business in the UK. They now offer a service to you, entirely free of charge, to assist you to find your dream place in the sun without going through the experience and hassle factor we did. We want you to enjoy the experience but most importantly, find what you want in the limited time you are on the island, and to give you some time to celebrate your purchase with a Keo beer or a nice bottle of Cypriot wine.

Please allow them the opportunity to do this. What have you got to lose? Complete the contact form today.....