Article: A pricey place in the sun.

ICHARD Neubersch is an inscrutable estate agent. This is an odd characteristic for an agent and no doubt it pertains more to his being German - albeit one who has lived in Portugal for the past 15 years.

What it means for the army of buyers currently invading the central Algarve, where Neubersch plies his trade, is that they are likely to come up against some rather odd ideas about selling houses.

His offices, just outside the exclusive Quinta do Lago development - a classic sun-belt mixture of golf and villas - does not have any glossy pictures in the window. This, he argues (and he may have a point) would smack of desperation. "A German would wonder ...

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