The Challenges of Buying Brazilian Real Estate 

Your wife should have made a preliminary contract, called "Promessa de compra e venda", and registered it in the real estate office. This prevents this multiple selling problem, as it gives the buyer an "erga omnes" (everybody is subject to it) right to have the property transfered to her, if she pays the price agreed. This works even if the property has been sold for other person.

One of the things I recently learned is that each Brazilian realtor can only sale his own listing (unlike in the US that they can split commissions). Also like mentioned in this video, no escrow.

How do you check for heirs/liens in Brazil?

For brazilians, anyone who doesn't knee down and beg for your mercy is judged as "snob" xDDD Scammy people. Better off spending your money in Paraguay if you're looking for land. Beach is attractive and all, but it's kind of a trap too.

But I agree to some extent, Florianopolis is a very peculiar land because it's an island with limited expansion permits, people there want to keep the island the way it is, without too much expansion.

Each step ,do it carefully, and all will be fine. I'm Romanian and I bought a small land in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Are you still looking for? I'm from Brazil! I got some contacts at USA that could help you out! Just let me know

Hi are you still looking for rural property? You should look into Bolivia(country next door), cheaper land, easier buying process.

Matthew, Price of real estate has the largest monthly decline in 5 years, says FipeZap. Brazil is not a reagion from Mexico, is way different. Brazilian's economy is almost twice bigger than Mexico, the actual material production of Brazil is almost DOUBLE of material production of Mexico. Brazil's experiencing political instability, in consequence of that health, safety and education get compromised. But it does not compare to the problems of safety, health and education in Mexico, which are bigger than Brazil's, even Mexico having a smaller area and population Among many other factors that show's that the higher is justified.

Good luck if you're going to judge a country by these "economy indicators", which in the end don't mean anything really. I've seen people having better lifes with a lower cost in Mexico, more freedom. (a third of the cost to be exact) Look at the difference in both countries when it comes to getting a driver's license. Around US$800 in Brazil right now if you want to drive car and bike. Truck license, even more. And again: the people who conduct the final tests can deny your license just because they're having a bad day. Welcome to scam land.

Presently, the fastest internet access in the countryside is via a cell phone modem connected to an antenna to amplify the sound, but it's 2G speed, or about 256kbs, so I don't use it. 4G towers are being installed in Florianópolis and São José, and I'm not sure when they'll bring them out into the countryside. There's always a time lag. For quick use, I drive 12km into Angelina to use a 2Mbs fiber optic connection at an internet cafe (I can connect my laptop there) and usually combine it with lunch and shopping in town. I keep an apartment in Florianópolis where I spend two days each week online at 20Mbs fiber optic for the heavier work such as uploading/downloading videos. There are companies beginning to install private radio towers throughout the countryside and then selling speeds of 1Mbs to maybe 10Mbs via radio. They haven't reached my area. It's all a matter of time and when that final stretch of road is paved and there's high speed internet available at these properties prices of everything will more than double. People will realize they can live out there and commute 30-40 minutes to work, or even better, simply live there and work online. Send me your visa questions at the contact page at brazilforlife.com. I'm not sure what you mean by "temporary visa". Bank accounts in someone's personal name can only be opened by foreigners who have a visa with a term of one year or greater (eg. any permanent visa, a 1yr work visa, a 1yr student visa). Foreigners who open a Brazilian business can open a bank account for that business right away and use it to conduct business.

Yeah, this region in the Santa Catarina state is a very peculiar region, because the capital (Florianopolis) is an island, housing permits there are a pain because they want the island the way it is (which I agree). And to the west of the state, the countryside, there's this huge mountaineous area of land, which makes difficult for cellphone towers to work properly, signal there is very hard to get and slow, but is an exception in the brazilian territory. The main problem is price and bureaucracy, high costs for mediocre speeds (you can watch youtube at 720p if you're the only person using the router for example) and the contract usually lock you down for a year.

there is a tax of buyng a house in brazil called ITBI. sometimes the seller says is alredy included. Still, it needs to be paid, maybe is included in the full price of it, but is a bill. It goes to the city hall, where you should also see if your house has any debt before buyng it

Interesting project, do you have an website or email? I'm looking for places in which to work as volunteer in exchange for accomodation and learning new trades such as building.

Martin, it's possible, but not easy. You'd first need to qualify for one of the permanent resident visas and keep it active for five years. After that, you can qualify for what's called the "naturalization" process, or establishing citizenship and getting a Brazilian passport.

Vocal Nebula: Thank you for your reply. I am looking at getting a second citizenship and hope to find a country that fits soon. Cheers :)

Martin Blair Hey, that was actually me, Joe Naab, author of Brazil for Life. I forgot which account I was logged into and Vocal Nebula is my new secret project...good luck to you.

Oh hey thanks Joe. Love your channel and all your videos. Much appreciated. :)

Vocal Nebula I heard you could adopt a forest?

MyTime Entertainment if it's a big one, and you're great at it, something around 200k to 300k reais a year

Bernardo Wachholz deixa de ser doido. Nem médicos ganham isso, muito menos um operador de máquinas. O máximo que uma pessoa nesse tipo de trabalho pode ganhar, se trabalhar bastante, é 5 mil a 10 mil por mês, que é 60k/120k por ano

200k a year? No fucking way, wow... Totally false. In hotels I think you would be able to land a job, but I would not know if the companies would hire someone "without papers", to put it like that. The majority of companies here in Brazil only hire within the law with the fear of legal implications, and that's a bummer because there are a lot of qualified people who would prefer to work informally in their own terms.

Tiffany W Was if you looking to invest or relocate I would be happy to help.

Tiffany W Was if you live in SP, an average good looking house is about 100k dollars

keval zaveri I need some advice to relocate and buy land or real.state.

Roudy do you have skype? Add me there: diego.frs (at) hotmail (dot) com

Taco, Brazil is pretty big, and he's talking about an area of it. The real estates is different in each region of Brazil. For exemple here in Rio de Janeiro we don't have that much of problem cus' we have more contact with foreign, we work with consolidated builders that cares with your client don't metter there nationality, etc.

Why not try a company which takes care of everything for you. N trust me this place is heaven.

You can, they are called "despachantes" here.

Kerry Rossington planning to invest. I would be happy to help you.

Kerry Rossington you don't need a buy anything. YOU COULD LIVE WITH ME FOR FREE.

Sorry, that is not a common solution in Brazil. You may get something like that in huge cities, like São Paulo. But it is rare to find some one who would do business that way. But great idea, anyway.

+Tone B dont done this you wanna regret i am brazilian this is the bad country you wanna see

Tone, Brazil is pretty big, and he's talking about an area of it. The real estates is different in each region of Brazil. For exemple here in Rio de Janeiro we don't have that much of problem cus' we have more contact with foreign, we work with consolidated builders that cares with your client don't metter there nationality, etc. And Brazil is a great country for visiting and living, Is not for nothing that after all that the men os the video still in here and says that worth it.

It's not exclusive to Brazil either. The other day I was reading one story of a guy who had to deal with real estate offices in California, they would offer false claims that land was not for sale just for the sake of it, or they would inform higher prices than the real one. The guy had to argue with them that they were offering false information on top of acting as a group, which would turn it a conspiracy. Then, the guys backed off. One can't even buy land anymore in this "free" world we live.

@@FeelingShred real estate everywhere is a scam. I am from india its a big mess here too. Too much money laundering going on