The due diligence questions worth asking, market by market, with sources.
Albania
Albania’s coast is growing fast. The paperwork behind that growth rarely makes the brochure.
Dubai
Most buyers in Dubai right now are buying a building that has not been built yet. Here is what actually protects you, and what it does not.
Portugal
Portugal moved non-resident buyers onto a flat 7.5 percent transfer tax. The listing price did not change. Your real cost did.
Spain
The Golden Visa is gone and a 100 percent tax made headlines. One of those is law. The other is not. Knowing the difference is worth a great deal of money.
United Kingdom
An overseas landlord buying in England now pays up to 7 percent in surcharges before the standard stamp duty even starts. The yield can still work. Only if you count it first.
Portugal
A nationality law reform in force since May 2026 stretches the path to a Portuguese passport from five years to as many as ten. The residency route itself did not change. The number at the end of it did.
Dubai
The Dubai Land Department has removed the minimum property value for the two-year investor visa. It changed who qualifies. It did not change what you should check first.
Albania
Developers have priced a 15 to 25 percent uplift into Riviera listings for two years. The airport behind that number missed its third deadline and still has no certified flight date.
Due Diligence
Fifteen checks, in a deliberate order. Most buyers run about five of them, and the ones they skip are the ones that cost money.
Buying Remotely
Many of our clients complete without boarding a plane. That only works when somebody independent stands in the room on their behalf.
Buyer Protection
Very few start with a forged deed. Most start with ordinary pressure, applied at the moment a buyer is least able to verify anything.
The Numbers
A 7 percent gross yield can reach you as something closer to 3 percent. The gap is not concealed. It is simply never in the brochure.
Independence
An advisor paid by the developer cannot recommend that you buy nothing. That is not a character flaw. It is arithmetic.
Albania
Albania’s coast is sold on headline yields. Every cost between that number and your account is knowable before you buy.
United Kingdom
Section 21 is gone, every tenancy is now open ended, and the address on file has to sit in England or Wales. Here is what actually changes for an owner who manages the property from another country.