Following the world financial crisis many families now find that they have much less equity to 'play' with and their budget to buy a holiday home overseas has been considerably reduced.
Yes, you can still buy a rat hole in some backward country, and even though prices in Spain, France and Italy have fallen it is still difficult to find a nice, liveable, holiday or permanent home property in a 'developed' and established EU country which offers good infrastructure and which comes at a truly affordable price.
You might, therefore, be interested to find out what is available in the north east corner of Austria which is a wonderful holday location and which has much to offer. This is the Austrian province of Niederösterreich - Lower Austria.
Access is good, as Ryanair fly to Linz in Austria and to Bratislava regularly and Easyjet offer a cheap service to Vienna.
So - check out
www.euroburo-lower-austria.com/ Look particularly at the "real bargain" page and also read the "area guide" page and you will be very surprised at what you see.
David.