The places
Residency and property
Where a house still comes with a right to stay, where it never did, and the four markets that have a fence around them. The rules as they stand, and what changed.
Your result
The Relocator
Is moving, for tax, for family or for the light, and the house has to work on a Tuesday in November.
You are buying a life rather than a house. Monaco for the regime, Zürich for the job, Lisbon for the light, Dubai for the speed: the jurisdiction comes first and the house is where you will actually live in it. Schools, the airport, a winter that works, a kitchen for weekdays.
What works for you
Relocators make the fewest mistakes of any buyer, because they visit in the off-season and they use the house. They also benefit from the rules that punish others: residency turns Zürich's fence and Kitzbühel's declaration into advantages.
What to watch
Deciding the jurisdiction on the tax rate alone. Monaco is small, Dubai is hot, Zürich is expensive and Lisbon is no longer the deal it was. Rent for a year before you buy, then buy the house you would have bought anyway.
Structure
Personal ownership in the country of residence, almost always. The structure follows the residency, not the other way round, and the desk introduces the adviser before the apartment.
The hotspots that fit
Monaco
The Carré d'Or, Larvotto, Fontvieille and the new land at Mareterra.
Zürich & Zug
The Gold Coast, Enge and Fluntern, and the low-tax hills of Zug and Wollerau.
Lisbon & Comporta
Chiado and Príncipe Real, Cascais, and the rice fields and pines of Comporta.
Dubai
Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Bay, Emirates Hills and Dubai Hills.
Run the numbers
Acquisition Costs
What a house really costs to walk into, in sixteen jurisdictions, line by line.
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The numbers
The currency question
A house in francs, pounds, dollars or dirhams is a currency position whether you wanted one or not. What it has done to buyers in the last fifteen years, and how to decide before you are in love.
The numbers
What a house really costs to buy
Sixteen jurisdictions, one ten-million house, and a door that costs anything from sixty thousand to nearly two million. The acquisition cost, line by line.
The Private Letter
One letter a month.
One letter a month: what moved in the hotspots, one anonymised sale explained, one number worth knowing. No advertising, no tracking, one click to leave.