Eugene, chief executive of a major Russian company, first considered buying property abroad when he took up yachting. We talked to him after he bought a villa in Catalonia near a marina.
Tatiana (47), a lawyer from Moscow, and her husband had other reasons to buy a property in Hungary’s resort town of Hévíz: it will get their son, who’s studying in Europe, an EU residence permit.
Elena, a Tranio client, decided to invest her family’s savings in an apartment abroad that could be leased out.
Steve, an English expat in Moscow, Russia, bought a flat in Spain. Two years on, we asked him for the British perspective on Spain’s real estate, buyer’s remorse and bureaucracy.
Daria (30), a financial expert from Moscow, Russia, and her husband knew Europe well by the time they bought their first flat there: an apartment in the South of France along the Mediterranean.
Buying property overseas can be daunting, especially the first time. client, Sergey (28), has just disproved these theories after finding and reserving a property in a record five hours!
Muscovite Vladimir Kolesnik used to travel