by Christopher Nye | Jan 28, 2025 | Currency Exchange Explained, Property News
The legal wheels can seem to move so, so slowly when buying a property overseas. Yet sometimes, for various reasons, buyers need to get a move on. So how can you speed up the process, safely, of buying your property abroad? The news from Spain, where the prime...
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by Jonathan Cook | Jan 27, 2025 | Currency Exchange Explained
Regular readers will know that we often bang the drum for forward contracts here at Smart Currency. There’s a good reason why they are our most popular service for overseas property buyers; a great way to protect your hard-earned money from exchange rate...
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 18, 2024 | Currency Exchange Explained
Interest rates continue to be the main driver of exchange rates, and can have a huge impact on your international transactions, pension paid overseas or purchase of a property. So what is the relationship? And what can you do to ensure that a decision made in London,...
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by Christopher Nye | Oct 24, 2024 | Currency Exchange Explained
What is a Purchasing Managers’ Index, or ‘PMI’, and why can it impact currency movements? We explain more about this type of data and why it’s such a useful indicator of how economies are performing. What is a PMI? Within our articles and currency notes, we often...
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by Christopher Nye | Sep 23, 2024 | Currency Exchange Explained, Property News
How can you be sure of being able to make stage payments for a new-build property overseas, in another currency, when exchange rates keep changing? Understand how to take the stress out of buying new-build in another currency. When buying a property overseas more than...
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by Christopher Nye | Aug 16, 2024 | Currency Exchange Explained
War in Ukraine being taken back to the Russians, the potential for escalation in the Middle East… two obvious examples of global threats right now. Then there is the further risk of pandemics, the risk of an economic slowdown in the world’s biggest...
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