No, our contractor did not perpetrate this! Nor did his staff, who have been with him for 12 years and are very trustworthy. But we have worked out who probably did it...someone who advertised their services supplying electric shutters, but who turned out not to have a van or a landline and made rep...

Just to let you know, the villa we are having renovated in Carvoeiro was broken into last night and three air conditioners were pinched, plus two very heavy inverters, as well as loads of tools and equipment, copper pipe, etc. It must have taken a few strong men up to an hour to shift it all. Watch ...

We will soon be completing the purchase of a house here. Before signing the promissory contract I asked the current owner whether the house had ever been broken into. He said it hadn't. I recently found out that the previous owner had been the victim of a very violent break-in there. It wasn't a rec...