About Property Styles

In this highly competitive market and with “Property Experts” seemingly popping up everywhere, it is important to identify an agency that can provide local knowledge and expertise, particularly someone who is able to guide a buyer through the process of purchasing a property in Portugal with accurate advice.

Doug Styles, the Founder and Owner of Property Styles, has a lifetime career in sales and marketing, lived in the Golden Triangle of Algarve for almost 35 years and has vast local property sales experience. Mediating and facilitating the purchase of hundreds of properties in the luxury Golf and Beach developments of Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Dunas Douradas and surrounding rural areas of Loule.  One of the key services we offer is PROPERTY FINDING, identifying and locating THE property by matching a client’s specific criteria to a property, in so doing reducing the time consuming task of viewing many totally inappropriate properties…this is simple to achieve… by listening to the buyers criteria.

This spectacular region offers security and safety not found in many other locations in Europe, is only a 3 hour flight away for most European countries, with direct flights from most into Faro Airport, the UK alone provides direct flights from over 20 regional airports.

The Algarve offers 300 days of annual sunshine, kilometres of golden sandy beaches, over 50 golf courses. Michelin Starred, as well as reasonably priced local restaurants and some of the most desirable properties in Europe.

It has not only become the second home location of choice for celebrities and high net worth individuals, but also many retirees taking advantage of the various benefits Portugal has to offer, such as taking up residence under the conditions of the D.7 visa initiative, whilst residing in a low crime environment and one the least polluted regions in Europe, Historically the Algarve had been the choice of the British, Irish, Dutch and German residents, now there are many French, Scandinavian and most recently USA nationals taking up residence, in the case of the latter, due in part to the recent decision by United Airlines to commence scheduled flights from New York to Faro, the capital of Algarve.