Fractional timeshare – Investment or not?
November 17th, 2023
Back in May TCA published part 1 of this subject where we took an in depth look at the product from a timeshare perspective, the conclusion we came to was that the product was far from an investment in the conventional sense of the word. In the article we pointed out the over inflated price […]
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Timeshare loans – Shawbrook face reality
August 30th, 2023
On Friday 11th August The Times ran an article, the headline of which read: “Shawbrook warns timeshare compensation may hit £25m” The stark headline comes as a result of a Judicial Review, the outcome of which we reported on in May 2022. In short, the High Court ruling found Shawbrook and other banks broke timeshare […]
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Timeshare – Past, Present & Future
June 16th, 2023
Holidaymakers in 2023 tend to regard timeshare as outmoded, dated, expensive and inefficient, but 20 million households worldwide holiday through some version of holiday ownership schemes. So how has the past changed the present and what’s in store for the future? Background Timeshare entered the holiday scene in the 1960s, but flourished with the expansion […]
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Timeshare USA – Buy to rent?
May 29th, 2023
Our friends at After Inside Timeshare recently ran an article on the problems surrounding buying timeshare to then rent it out. The major focus of the article surrounded Bluegreen Vacations; however other developers were mentioned, all not in a very favourable light. A common thread was resort sales staff promoting the rental of the owners’ […]
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Fractional timeshare – Investment or not?
May 17th, 2023
The timeshare industry has travelled through a lot of changes in its history. Fixed weeks became floating weeks, floating weeks became points, and whilst straightforward points still exist, the new kid on the block is fractional ownership. We asked if fractional ownership was an investment, well straight away it cannot possibly be because the EU […]
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Not a timeshare resort in sight
February 13th, 2023
We recently read with interest that the governing body for the region of Andalucia in Southern Spain (Junta de Andalucia) passed a decree in July last year that enables hotels on the Costa del Sol to enlarge their premises by up to 20 per cent and update their facilities to attract higher quality tourism. So […]
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Hargreaves Holdings – Another one not to trust
January 11th, 2023
We recently received an enquiry from a rather distraught former timeshare owner who had been contacted by Hargreaves Holdings. Unfortunately the content of their phone call half scared this pensioner to death. Basically, the lady and her husband owned a timeshare in Spain but due to ill health they approached the resort and asked to […]
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Are timeshare problems global? It appears that way
December 13th, 2022
Normally TCA focus in the main timesharing ownership areas being Europe and the USA, however we often overlook other areas, possibly because little news or problems are forthcoming from. Recently we did however pick up on some timeshare litigation news from India. According to All India Resort Development Association (AIRDA) there are currently over 500,000 […]
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Timeshare – The licence to lie
October 21st, 2022
Regular readers will be aware of the term used above “the licence to lie”. In short the phrase comes from the intransigence of timeshare developers to police the sales techniques and verbal representations used by their sales staff. Whilst we say that developers don’t “police” their sales staff, in virtually all cases they are completely […]
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Timeshare purchased with finance
October 10th, 2022
Due to an unprecedented amount of enquiries we are receiving on this subject we thought that an explanation article was necessary. Over the recent years the cost of buying into timeshare has risen with the result that to purchase anything worth having is now costing around £20,000 in Europe. In the USA the figure is […]
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