LIVING. Friday and this weekend is Second Home organised the fair for the second residence. More than 400,000 Belgians already have one. A pied-a-terre under the sun – and we prefer to use mainly the Spanish – is so long is not a privilege of the rich. Do you think there themselves to a second residence to buy? These five questions help you are guaranteed to make the right choice. Where to buy?

in the Past we stayed for a second stay within their own borders, and we bought en masse on the coast and in the Ardennes. Today enjoy sunny destinations are preferred, and especially Spain, followed by France, Portugal and Greece. A lot has to do with the emergence of low cost airlines and the huge increase in the number of flights. Quickly and cheaply at your destination, so, for many owners, after all, a priority.

Go so well or that at you the case and keep in mind that you lose time with the trip from and to the airport. On that level, nothing can match a second residence in their own country. If you know where you want to buy, do you to spot a look to go, so you with own eyes see in which area you enter. Perhaps there is near a road that noise pollution causes, disrupts a high-rise building, the view, you’ll be in a dead community…