North-Portugal-Holiday-Rentals.com is now legally under the control of a former customer of Keith Potter (who used to operate this domain for holiday lets and real estate sales in the North of Portugal, but not any more!).
If you are looking for a villa to rent, or other vacation rental in the north of Portugal, you can contact us by email here: vacation-lets@north-portugal-holiday-rentals.com - we will attempt to put you in touch with others / Northern Portuguese property owners who have rental villas / properties and can hopefully help you.
If you used to offer your property for rental through Keith Potter and would like this site to be developed, please let us know as we may be prepared to run this as a small business if the demand is there. Or you can simply contact us and let us know your details, etc. in case we get any enquiries. Please use the above email to get in touch.
If you bought property from / through
Keith Potter / Regueiro do Norte, Lda and have any legal issues you would like
to discuss, we may well be able to help you / be glad to hear from you. Again,
please use the above email to contact us.
If you are looking for a quality villa / real estate / waterfront property to
buy in Northern Portugal, there is an excellent large property available on
the River Minho border with Spain, walking distance to Monção
centre, please visit Spain
Portugal Property. They also have a nice plot of land ideal for building
your dream home: Riverside
Building Land.
If you buy property here in Portugal, make sure everything is recorded in writing, and signed by all the parties. Ensure all the details presented to you in the sales advertisement are 100% accurate and legally documented. Make sure the seller or their agent fully details the buying price, what this includes, and what the taxes are likely to be. Ensure the price you pay for your property is fully and properly recorded in the sale agreement and land registry documents. Make sure the sale agreement, land registry documents (deeds) and fiscal tax documents all agree with each other. Make sure nothing is omitted from the land registry documents (deeds) that was advertised / promised to you. Make sure you receive a copy of the land registry documents filed by the lawyer immediately after they are filed and, if you do not understand them, have them fully translated. As only one lawyer is used by both the property seller and buyer, I can not recommend enough that you get your own lawyer from a 3rd party recommendation, that you do not use the lawyer put forward by the sales agent or property owner.
If you wish to contact Keith Potter, the former owner of this domain (North Portugal Holiday Rentals dot com), you may still be able to write to him at his address here in Portugal (see below), although we are aware he is / was trying to sell and leave Portugal as soon as possible. If you have any difficulty in contacting him here, we may be willing to provide you with his address / details in the UK (as the saying goes, you can run but you can not hide).
Keith Potter
Regeurio do Norte
Quinta do Regueiro (AKA Casa Flores)
Bogadela
Barbeita
4950-044 Monção
Portugal
How come I got Keith Potter's domain (north-portugal-holiday-rentals.com)?
Having a legal / legitimate interest
in him and his business, I was aware Keith Potter had his property and business
advertised for sale and was watching his then web site on this domain, north-portugal-holiday-rentals.com,
for progress. On the 4th August 2011, I saw that his web site had stopped functioning,
so I contacted his web hosting company to let them know north-portugal-holiday-rentals.com
was down / inoperative. They did not reply and the site did not come back online,
so I concluded Mr. Potter had deserted / terminated the hosting account. I saw
the domain was due for renewal in the near future and suspected Mr. Potter would
desert / terminate that too, and he did. His registrar (Tucows) later showed
that the domain had not been renewed (that it had been deserted) and then was
going to be released after a certain amount of time (so Mr. Potter could renew
it still if he wanted to) for anyone else to buy. On the 19th December 2011,
I checked and it had been released, so I bought it. So, for over 4 months, from
the 4th August to 19th December 2011, Keith Potter had deserted his web site
and this domain. Please understand, both Mr. Potter's hosting company and domain
registrar would have contacted him several times regarding the fact he might
lose his web site and domain, so I did nothing underhand buying the domain as
clearly, Mr. Potter had long deserted it and showed no interest in renewing
it at the time.
Update
Mr Potter has contacted me and indicated he was unable to sell his property & business here in Portugal / he is going to be conducting business in the area again. Mr Potter refused to elaborate on what business exactly he might / would be conducting in this area, though I suspect he means he will be renting out the two log cabins, an apartment and a small rustic house in his grounds as he has done before. I do not know if he will start up a new holiday rental site and offer a holiday reservations service for other property owners in the area; I doubt it, as otherwise he would not presumably have let this domain lapse (which allowed me to buy it). I suspect he will not be getting back into real estate sales either, though I can not be sure.