Buying property in Cyprus, a familiar tale of woe

Purchasing property in Cyprus could very well qualify as an extreme sport.

The property pages of newspapers may well be full of reports proclaiming 2025 as being the strongest year for property sales since 2007, with ever pricey Limassol leading the charge and Paphos a close second.

But behind the glitzy statistics of spiralling high-end property sales to rich foreigners lie the old tales of woe of people being swindled, misled and sold false expectations by developers and lawyers...