There is no doubt that the number of Brits buying and moving abroad has been increasing markedly. It is estimated that more than 2.2 million currently own property abroad and that, in the past six years, more than a million have emigrated permanently. Between 2000 and 2004, there was a 250 per cent increase in the number of British residents buying property abroad solely for investment purposes, and more than one and a quarter million Brits own second homes in Spain and France already.

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