Top 10 property safe havens abroad

                                                                                                                                                               extract from  The Telegraph

1.Canada    2.Hongkong    3.Switzerland   4.Mauritius  5.Gibraltar

Long a favourite with holidaymakers, Mauritius is now open to foreign buyers, thanks to a new scheme to encourage investment. Most people would be happy enjoying the water sports, unspoilt beaches and charming villages that dot this Indian Ocean idyll, but now there are financial perks too. 

If you pay £310,000 or more for a villa or apartment in a designated coastal zone, you will also have the right to become a Mauritian resident, and enjoy low levels of personal and business tax.

“The political situation is strong,” says Maribeth Davies of Hamptons International “ and the economy has grown at an average of 4 per cent a year for the past eight years.