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Retirement

Ah, the pleasures of spending your golden years in the sunshine...

Provided you plan for your retirement well, it needn't be just a fantasy. As well as making sure you move somewhere you feel comforatble in the community and can live for a long period of time, planning your finances is key. You'll need to make sure you can afford to live there, especially if you are receiving a UK pension which is subject to exchange rate fluctuations when taking the money abroad.

10 things to think about when buying a retirement property

Moving abroad always requires forward planning, but retiring overseas raises its own specific issues. Property writer Cheryl Markosky provides some pointers.

From Colchester To Kalkan

Meet Jane Ebeling, one of a growing number of British retirees moving to Turkey. For anyone thinking of doing the same, we spoke to Jane about her relocation "journey", which culminated in her moving into her new home in Kalkan jsut weeks ago...

Semigrate to South Africa

After falling for South Africa in the 1960s, Bert and Margo Bryan now divide their time between Cape Town and the UK.

Retire carefree and cash-rich

The weaker pound may have affected the lives of some expats but it shouldn't put you off retiring abroad - so long as you plan properly. Here we offer four different ways to use property to subsidise your pension when you move to the sun.

Save cash overseas

Read the recent press reports about British expats moving back to to UK, claiming the weak pound has made it too expensive to live in the Eurozone? Well, we're not convinced, and to show that a life abroad can still be affordable, here we serve up some tips on how to be thrifty abroad.