People Who've Bought

Meet the TV show couple who moved to France the day before lockdown

Despite making tabloid headlines for refusing to step inside one of the properties that Laura Hamilton showed them on an episode of A Place in the Sun, this couple moved into their dream home with the help of the show

26 October 2021

The snags of ‘working from home’ on the Costa Blanca with my Spanish builders

Find out about one couple's experience buying an off-plan home in Spain!

12 October 2021

Oh Yeah! From town crier to Spanish home buyer (at 73)

Colin Ballard has a lot to shout about. The former town crier from Lytham St Annes in Lancashire has just moved into his new home in Spain. He’s clearly not a man to do things by halves – this summer he’s bought a townhouse in Murcia (before actually visiting himself)

28 September 2021

No fly, no buy? Not for one Disney-mad Scot who has purchased her dream home in Florida

As it is announced that the United States will open its border to Britons in November, we suggest a way you can buy to beat the rush…

21 September 2021

Overseas property advice - direct from the experts!

Take a scroll through our extensive library of webinars to find out everything you need to know about buying, moving, and living abroad!

16 September 2021

Advent Calendar Day 1| A Place in the Sun Revisited with Jasmine Harman

Things got a bit emotional when Jasmine was reunited with house hunters Sue and Mike Bloomfield who bought a property on the show three years ago!

1 December 2020

Why some go mad for the Mar Menor

Spanish based journalist Richard Torné looks at Murcia's 'Little Sea'

24 July 2020

Riding on a Wave - How white-sand beaches and year-round sun attract buyers to Fuerteventura

The wind has done a lot for Fuerteventura. Icy wintry gusts in Britain and its European neighbours helped last year to drive many of the 2.3 million tourists towards the second largest of the seven main Canary Islands. Temperatures breezed into the seventies in January and February, while the ever-present winds on many of its 152 beaches attract a growing crowd of surfers, windsurfers, kite-surfers and water-skiers.

22 July 2020

Case Study | How two sisters set up a business in France

How two cycling-mad couples turned their passions into a French cycling business

1 July 2020

Case Study | A straw poll led us to Umbria

How one couple's unusual straw poll led them to Italy

30 June 2020

Case Study | How coronavirus affected our move to Spain

"Even Brexit did no derail our long-planned move to Spain, but then just as we got our new keys, along came Coronavirus"

10 June 2020

Julia Bradbury's £10k holiday home (and how you can find one too)

TV presenter Julia Bradbury talks to Angela Sara West about new plans for her famous £10k Portuguese property

28 May 2020