Tips for home buyers

[dellboy]

Originally Posted by omostra06

Hi welcome to the forum, if you need any advice just ask.

does anyone know a good english speeking lawyer in olivera di hospital,can you give me a rough idea of costs to buy property with a value around 160000euros

[PETERFC]

Hi All

I have tried before to get help in English on this site. I was advised to go to the tips for home buyers. What good are tips if the links are in Portuguese unless you can read Portuguese. Below are the links of help i found in the tips for homebuyers. What good is it if you can't read it because the links are not in English. The sites i was advised to see are great for information if you are Portuguese or can read it. But their is more to find than how to use the information on Sophies site for example.

I need to find activities for disabled people for holidays. A link i looked at was for
Trans Serrano Home a website in Portuguese. The site gives great information about activities around the Gois area. The site does not have an English version but their is a way to read this in English and their are a few things to do to get the English translation.

First type the name of the site you want the English version of into the Google search. Do not type the WWW just type for example transserrano.com Google will now give you a list it has found. The top of the list is the one you want.

Trans Serrano » Home - [ Translate this page ] This is what Google finds now all you do is click the Translate this page. Now click and see what comes up. You have now got the website in an English translation. It works i have tried as i type this. I then went to the Newsletter section. Their are a number of newsletters to view, i picked the June 2009

The links below are a waste of time if you can't read them.

Below is a short section translated from from an English translation by using the above method. From the Microgeneration page.

Since the end of the 70s that there is a growing concern by many political scientists and international, in the face of human activity on Earth, which adversely affects the climate in the world, mainly due to the use of fossil fuels, not renewable. Several international organizations and intergovernmental urgem action to avoid deep damage to the environment, ie the basis of our human existence.

In 2002 the EU ratified the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, pledging to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 5% between 2008 and 2012, compared to values recorded in 1990.

Please if you are going to provide a link to any site for information try first to see if their is an English version and mention it. I have not yet found a Portuguese website that i can't read in English. Some the results are better that others some are very good.

Please give it a try it's worth the effort to be able to get the information you want.


Peter the 666 man

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[christopherdouglas]

Hi Peter, the triple six man,

This is going a long way from Derek's thread but:

We are learning Portuguese VERY slowly, and are no-where good enough to read web pages, so we downloaded the Google Translation Toolbar.

Brilliant Almost Some of the translations are a bit quirky but it's good enough to get by on, and a lot faster than pasting sentances into BabelFish.

Regards,
Chris

[Guatemala]

Hi,
This is my first post and I apologise ahead of time if I should've placed it elsewhere! I am looking for some advice on buying a property in Portugal. We have found a house in the Algarve and have been negotiating a price and applying for finance for a little while now but I am still unsure as to how you find out the exact figure of IMT that will be payable? Our lawyer says that he will be able to declare the land and buldings in a way to minimise our responsibility but has not given us an actual amount. We've applied to a handful of banks for a mortgage and they quote wildy different amounts on the simulations they provide. What or how is the final amount payable determined by?

Thank you

[omostra06]

use the table below to work out your imt.


Property Purchase Taxes in Portugal

[Guatemala]

[quote=omostra06;185700]use the table below to work out your imt.


Thank you for your reply. We were aware of those rates. The property is made up of a portion of rural and a portion of urban land, which I guess is where the answer becomes slightly more complicated. I will confirm with our lawyer the area that falls in each and go from there.

[Diane1]

I have the feeling that half of the members on the forum are in competition with you. Can’t believe the amount of stat agents in the forum

[omostra06]

No one is in competition with anyone, we have members from various professions which is great for the forum, as they can offer members good up to date advice on several subjects, which only enhances the forum,

[ofilha]

Originally Posted by omostra06

No one is in competition with anyone, we have members from various professions which is great for the forum, as they can offer members good up to date advice on several subjects, which only enhances the forum,

Hi Derek,
Your tips are great. I have been looking around for some property in Portugal and have used remax as my primary search engine so to speak. Are you a real estate agent? If so, do you have a web site for your agency? Also, have you considered putting all the tips discussed in this thread somewhere in this forum so that we can look at it in its totality? I was going to copy and paste the several posts in this thread for my own use so that i can digest all of the tips.

Thanks for the info.

[omostra06]

Originally Posted by ofilha

Hi Derek,
Your tips are great. I have been looking around for some property in Portugal and have used remax as my primary search engine so to speak. Are you a real estate agent? If so, do you have a web site for your agency? Also, have you considered putting all the tips discussed in this thread somewhere in this forum so that we can look at it in its totality? I was going to copy and paste the several posts in this thread for my own use so that i can digest all of the tips.

Thanks for the info.

Hi ofilha, Yes I do own a INCi registered Estate Agency, we have a main office in Tomar central Portugal, with 8 other satalite agents working for us in various other locations around Central portugal.
I cant post details of my company here as it would be advertising, but if you browse the Portugal Classifieds Marketplace Section of the forum above, you will find us.

The link at the bottom of all my posts is not for our Agency, its to our Marketing Company´s Portugal information website.