Your guide to the stock market
By: BILL BLEVINS Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks financial@portugalresident.com MOST READERS will be familiar with the names of the more well-known stock exchange indices but you may not know what they
Car crazy
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A MAN in Malaysia abandoned a Porsche he stole when it ran out of petrol but later went to the police station where it had been
Critical trifecta
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A NOT so clever man in the US got a hat trick of arrests in the space of three hours on Sunday. He was charged with
Money bags
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A WEALTHY businessman from the Middle East spent more than 100,000 pounds sterling in a London nightclub, in five hours. Manager of Crystal, a nightclub favoured
Nude cycling
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A GERMAN man and two Austrians were fined by police in Serbia for cycling naked along the banks of the River Danube during a heat wave.
Crowne Plaza comes to the Algarve
THE INTERCONTINENTAL Hotel Group has announced the signing of a franchise agreement with the Cerro Grande investment group for the new Crowne Plaza Albufeira. The new hotel, due to open
Holiday lets and rental income – part two
By: DENNIS SWING GREENE International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO eurofinesco@portugalresident.com SINCE NON-RESIDENTS are not eligible for the Simplified Regime, how do you best declare your rental income? The simplest way
Motoring and taxation
By: MARK RAWCLIFFE mark@portugalresident.com Is the windscreen price correct? By Portuguese standards, the simple answer is yes. By European standards, the correct answer is no. It has been going on
New car assistance centres
FEU VERT Autocenter, a French auto assistance network, is to open in the Portimão Retail Park later this year. The construction works are almost finished, although the opening date remains
The off plan property trap
Property Developers often sell some or all of their properties before they have finished building them. This is known as selling “Off Plan”. The main attraction for members of the