by Chris Nye | Jul 15, 2021 | Case study, Currency 101
Last year, Debbie Blaber from West Sussex shook hands on a deal to buy a home in France for €197,000. When completing the purchase took longer than planned due to the pandemic, she watched as exchange rate movements made the price in pounds shoot up by thousands of...
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by Erin Harding | Aug 18, 2020 | Case study
We spoke to one of our clients, Michele, about her experience of buying a property in Portugal. During her buying process, she had both Brexit and COVID-19 to contend with, which sent the currency markets into disarray. However, she explains that after finding us...
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by Erin Harding | Jul 2, 2019 | Case study
In 2018, we spoke to Beth Nicholson, who had fulfilled a lifelong dream of living permanently in France by buying a beautiful home in the Charente. She told us how she’d safely bought during an economically volatile time, and what she hoped for from her new life....
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by Erin Harding | Jun 12, 2019 | Case study
Saint Amans is the realisation of a long-held dream by Anne MacColl and her husband, Jean-Louis, a premium craft gin business based in their property in France. Starting up a new business internationally during such a volatile time for the foreign exchange markets...
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by Chris Nye | Jan 3, 2019 | Case study, Currency 101
When you first move to Australia, Canada, New Zealand or other far-flung destinations, you might not be buying your own house straight away, but you’ll certainly have a lot of expenses. You need to take care of your currency transfers or budgeting will be impossible....
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by Erin Harding | Sep 21, 2018 | Case study, Currency 101
At what point in the process of buying a home overseas should you be using a specialist in international property payments rather than just changing cash as if for a holiday? As early as possible! There will be significant costs on viewing trips and then the payment...
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