The Times – A Greek lesson for Britain’s chancellor Philip Aldrick writes for the UK Times – article on April 11th “After six years of painful austerity, better times are finally coming for the bailout nation Take two countries. One will have the fifth worst budget deficit of the International Monetary Fund’s 32 “advanced economies” next … Read More
The best guide book to the Greek Islands ever written is the Cadogan Guide, by Dana Facaros, insight, wit and wisdom. Her portraits of Tinos and Mykonos are unforgettable. She has turned her eagle eye now on the Greek Real Estate scene, looked at through the prism of the much anticipated launch of Hellenic Seaplanes, … Read More
Greek Real Estate received a welcome boost yesterday as 6 of the Echinades islands off Ithaca, in the Ionian sea, were sold to the Emir of Qatar. The ex- husband of a cousin of mine was one of the owners, so congratulations to him, and I was pleased to read the very forthright comments from … Read More
The tiny island of Oxia, where we used to head to for overnight fishing trips from Ithaca as children, and in whose emerald green waters we used to snorkel, has been sold to Qataris for 5 million euros. It will have the Onassis island of Skorpios as a neighbour, Homeric Ithaca, the Gulf of Actium and and … Read More
What is going on in the Ionian? Corfu, Zakynthos and Kephalonia have all been pretty well discovered/exploited/developed, but below the radar, quietly quietly, keeping low profiles, large concerns and private buyers from the north are buying up big chunks of land on the smaller and less well known islands. Lefkada, an island of stupendous beaches and … Read More
