Lawmakers sound alarm over foreign property buying spree

Cyprus has become a ‘free-for-all’ as non-EU foreign nationals are snapping up real estate in quantities vastly disproportionate to their numbers, some MPs warned on Thursday. Parliamentarians were discussing a recently released report by the auditor-general, which found that last year 27.4 per cent of properties were purchased by non-EU nationals. However even that is […]

Spiralling foreign purchases of Cyprus properties

cyprus-mail.com - 05/Oct 08:30

Data for the years 2022 to 2024 and the first seven months of 2025 indicate that the purchases of Cyprus real estate by foreigners are rapidly...

Our View: Sale of property to foreigners needs to be strictly regulated

cyprus-mail.com - 30/Sep 01:20

In the last five years, there have been some 15,000 applications by third country nationals to purchase real estate in Cyprus, Interior Minister...

Cyprus among top EU states hosting Ukrainian refugees proportionally

cyprus-mail.com - 14:38

A total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine were under temporary protection status by the end of August, with Cyprus recording the...

Europe rolls out automated border checks

courthousenews.com - 09/Oct 17:20

Non-EU nationals arriving for short stays in all EU countries — except Cyprus and Ireland — will be asked for their passport number, to provide...

LNG tender branded a ‘massive scandal’

cyprus-mail.com - 28/Sep 01:24

Chicanery or sheer stupidity – the question some MPs posed this week as to how Cyprus got tangled in the whole LNG farrago in awarding the contract...

Foreign investors turned net sellers with US$2.29bil outflow in Asia last week

thestar.com.my - 29/Sep 01:48

KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign investors turned net sellers in Asian markets last week, snapping a three-week buying streak with total outflows amounting to...

Cyprus warned over firearm usage

cyprus-mail.com - 08/Oct 12:14

The European Commission gave Cyprus two months on Wednesday to correctly transpose the provisions of the EU Firearms Directive, sending a letter of...