Cyprus property reaches upmarket

After years of Cyprus attracting only a certain brand of Brit who spends little and moans a lot (judging by last weekend’s encounters), Cyprus has finally entered the upmarket leagues, with an appearance in the Financial Times House & Home supplement.

The “FT”, which is standard reading for highly paid bankers, lawyers, accountants and other executives across Europe, hosts a regular holiday home supplement for those with plenty of income to spare.

But although Cyprus has the best weather in Europe and is just a hop away for execs who spend half their working life on aeroplanes, Cyprus has been conspicuous by its absence.

That is now beginning to change. The Sunday Times had a big spread a few weeks ago and last weekend, the FT’s “Southern Europe Special” had a full page on someone who splits his time between “a farmhouse in rural France and a two-bedroom cottage in a quiet corner of coastal Cyprus” (Polis).

Fiona Mullen