Moving to Paphos

Paphos offers the mildest winters on the island, an international airport ten minutes from the town, and a property market that has been building for the British buyer for a generation. The pace is slower than Limassol and the cost of living lower, which suits people arriving on a pension rather than a salary. The trade-off is that Paphos is quieter in winter than newcomers sometimes expect, and the villages above the coast can feel isolated without a car.

The stock is dominated by two-and three-bedroom villas and apartments built for the expat market, most with a terrace or pool and generous open-plan living space. Built-in wardrobes are standard, which is worth knowing before you pay to ship freestanding ones. Ceilings are high, but internal doors and stairwells are often narrower than in a British house, and marble floors and staircases influence how heavy items are moved in.

Paphos General Hospital provides public healthcare and there are several private clinics with English-speaking staff. There are established private and international schools serving the British community. The town has the full range of supermarkets, a large weekly market, and enough restaurants to keep you busy for a year. Winter is genuinely mild but the evenings are cooler than people expect, and most homes need some form of heating in January.

Paphos is roughly forty miles west of Limassol port, an easy inland leg for a container. Deliveries into Paphos town and the coastal developments are generally straightforward, but the hillside villages behind Coral Bay — Peyia, Tala, Tsada — involve steep, narrow lanes where a full-size articulated vehicle cannot go. Our destination team routinely transfers loads to a smaller rigid vehicle for the final approach, and there is warehousing near Paphos if your property is not ready when the container lands.