Article: Brazil takes on the world An idyllic house, with 10 acres, pool and all year-round sun for pounds 50,000? No wonder there's a property boom in Brazil. June Field reports

Mention Brazil and thoughts inevitably turn to football - especially now during the World Cup - carnival, samba and tiny swimwear. What is not so widely known is that British buyers can afford a home worthy of a footballer in what has quietly become a property hotspot.

With annual house price growth averaging 20 per cent in recent years, Brazil topped the investors list of favourite new destinations at The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show in Manchester earlier this month.

Bahia State, on the north-east coast, is closer than many people think. Salvador, the historic capital of a region the size of France

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