Guides
Practical, honest reference posts on buying and building abroad.
Sending money to Cape Verde
Wise does not send Cape Verdean escudos, whatever its own pages suggest. What actually happens to the money, why the exchange rate is not the thing to watch, and where the cost really sits.
Do you need a lawyer to buy property in Cape Verde?
We did our own legal work in 2003 and got lucky. Twenty years later, buying our land, we used a lawyer. Here's why, what it cost, and how we chose.