[Golfingworld]

If anyone wants fotos they can message me. My pousada was right on the main street prime location, by the bridge down to the beach. The other pousadas were on the main street or down on the beach..oddly I don't collect hotel names just to substantiate my comments on here. You can currently buy a 2 bed 55 sq metre 2 bed flat 90% complete,15 mins from the beach in Ponta Negra, 10 mins from bars and discos, fully secured with porter, garage, pool, european fittings for £45k or €66k available from Feb 08. Ponta Negra is highly rentable, 20 mins from airport (£15) prime location. Can email fotos of these too if you like. Can also email airtickets, copies of rent a car receipts and hotel bills..still doubting me? Yes Pipa is nice, you feel in Europe not Brazil but it is everything I said, European prices, as pointed out by you above with your prices. Transfers to Pipa are also expensive and tiring. My whole point is that prices quoted by some are ridiculous if one is prepared to do some ground work for oneself. From my research, all the European offered off-plan developments are 15/25% more expensive than the man who goes it alone and to my mind that premium will not be recovered for at least 7 years. Yes prices were lower 3 years ago all round but that is primarily before European Developers and Agents started deliberately over-cooking the prices with false demand. Anyone who has done real research will realise that there wasn't anyone in Brazil that didn't want to sell me a house or a flat once the word got around. My advice to anyone would be to find a local Brazilian and search independently with them as it is amazing the differential in prices....want a name...can email that as well if you like? So my friend, yes I have been there...3rd visit in 8 months and I more or less speak the lingo and have a Brazilian partner who translates the rest...so all angles have been covered.