Your guide to buying property in Cyprus: Nigel Howarth
I'm Nigel Howarth and I've been helping people turn their dreams of owning property in Cyprus into a reality for more than 10 years.
I started researching the Cyprus property market after my wife and I decided we wanted to live here back in 1984. Since then, my 'hobby' has turned into a 'passion' as you will see from the notes below!
I'm the Daily Telegraph's 'Mentor for Cyprus', and you may have heard me on Cyprus Radio or seen me on Sky TV discussing the Cyprus property market and some of its issues with Rosie Charalambous, Melissa Porter and Amy Garcia.
I have an online news service, Cyprus Property News Magazine, with articles, press clippings, information and advice to assist would be home buyers and property investors. Towards the end of 2007, I set up a Cyprus Property Forum as a specialist help, information and advice centre for buyers, sellers and property investors..
In 2007, I helped establish the Cyprus Property Action Group - a pressure group dedicated to creating awareness within the industry and Government of the problems buyers face as a result of buying property in Cyprus and lobbying for change.
I speak at seminars and other events in Cyprus designed to help expatriates planning to make the island their new home.
I administer a number of web forums: the Paphos-based Cyprus Living, Cyprus Limassol Living and Cyprus Eastern Owners & Buyers, which together have nearly 7,000 members and I'm an active participant in several other overseas property Internet forums.
I helped establish the very popular & successful AngloINFO Cyprus by writing a section of their website and continue to offer advice and guidance to its 10,000 members.
As you may guess, most of my time is spent on the computer and telephone answering questions and queries and helping people to overcome their property problems. But prevention is always better (and easier) than the cure, and this is what this website is all about - and with this aim in mind, you can order your copy of my ultimate 240 page guide, 'Buying a Home in Cyprus - A Practical Guide to Successful Real Estate Purchase', from this website.
In my "spare time" I write for an English-language magazine called 'In Touch'; I'm their 'Cyprus Oracle'.
I first bought property in Cyprus in 1992 and moved to the island permanently in 2002. My home in Erimi was individually designed and built to our specific requirements.
Before moving to Cyprus I was a business consultant and ran my own consulting firm for many years. My professional career took me around Europe and to many other parts of the world and I have lived in several countries, including: Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands.