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Property In Lagos: The Under-Appreciated Jewel Of Europe

Sunny And Seaside, Lagos Is An Old World Gem (And A Top Euro-Investment Market)

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Oct 12, 2018
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The truth is, we didn’t really know what we were buying into.

Lief and I came to Lagos, Portugal, for the first time three years ago.

We were 100% sold on Portugal, as both a lifestyle and an investment destination. We’d made contacts and friends in Lisbon and elsewhere in the country and had been having conversations and meetings for months getting to know the landscape in Portugal as a whole and in Lisbon and the Algarve in particular.

But Lagos hadn’t come on to our radar.

Then, at one of our Live and Invest in Portugal Conferences, a real estate contact, listening to us describe the kind of market and the kind of property we were most interested in investing in, recommended we take a look at Lagos.

“It’s a seriously undervalued and underappreciated investment market,” he told us, “and the city itself is an historical gem.”

We made the half-hour drive over from Carvoeiro to have a look.

Standing in the central square that first afternoon, I was smitten. The centuries-old structures all around… the cobblestoned plaza and thoroughfares, laid in patterns picked out by contrasting stones, light and dark, like in Lisbon… the city-side beach… the view of the harbor and the marina… white sails moving quickly across the horizon…

This was a special spot, the kind of place I feel most at home.

The more we looked around, the better we liked the place, from its 16th-century city walls, which still encircle the whole of the old town, to its Bandeira Fortress, complete with drawbridge and moat, where Phoenician and Greek merchant ships once sheltered.

We knew we wanted to buy in Portugal, and we believed the timing was just right.

When would we be back… to Lagos or even to Portugal? We didn’t want this opportunity to end up on our long list of, “Boy, sure wish we’d invested there then” stories.

We were determined to act.

We looked at six apartments in Lagos in one day, then we sat, late afternoon, with our property agent on the main square, harborside, to consider our options. I sipped 2-euros-a-glass prosecco and knew I wanted a reason to return to this spot.

One of the apartments we’d seen was in an old building on a winding cobblestoned pedestrian-only passageway two blocks back from the main square. It was two bedrooms on three levels, all of 70 square meters, but the location, the age of the place (we value old), and the rooftop terrace with a view of the sea sealed the deal.

We made an offer that was accepted before we left the country. We were to be property owners in Lagos.

However, as I mentioned, the truth was, we didn’t really know Lagos. What, really, had we bought into?

Sometime after we bought, Lief and I installed ourselves in our little apartment for a long weekend.

The Colourfull City

Arriving at dinnertime Friday, I was intimidated by the crowds. This is peak season, and Lagos’ narrow cobblestoned streets and squares were overflowing with holiday-goers.

We appreciate these mostly U.K. and European sunseekers. They’ve kept our apartment 90+% occupied since we made it available for rental.

On the other hand, was this really our kind of place?

Here’s what I can tell you now, after having enjoyed three days getting to know Lagos a little better: I don’t want to leave.

Lagos is known as the jewel in the Algarve’s crown for a reason. It is a city with a long and colorful history (that dates, in fact, to prehistory) that has embraced the 21st century without compromising any of its Old World character or charm.

Unlike Albufeira, a little farther along this Algarve coast, which has sold out to the resort development industry, Lagos has become modern without surrendering any of its sophisticated Old World soul. This is a city at peace with itself.

It’s also a city of contrasts, both historical and real time. The many tourists filling the streets each evening include 20-something Euro-vagabonds with guitars and drums slung over their shoulders, rasta hairdos, and elaborate body art.

Wandering among them are carefully coiffed families with young children and well-heeled older couples. Everyone seems to get along with everyone else in this city with Roman, Arab, Christian, and corsair heritage. Like any good crossroads, Lagos welcomes travelers and traders from all over the world.

Now that we’ve gotten to know it a little better, we couldn’t be happier with Lagos or with our investment here.

Yes, indeed, this is our kind of place.

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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