What does Brexit mean for expats and second-home owners?
There have been some nasty surprises about what Brexit really meant and it is still unfolding, says Clarissa Killwick, a Sussex-born resident who has lived in Conegliano, northern Italy, for 20 years, and helps to run Brexpats  Hear Our Voice, a support group for Britons in Europe. Because not all aspects of our new third-country status have been easily understood, some of these issues are gradually being ironed out.  Here, we highlight the main issues. Sponsored  Second-home owners and the 90-day rule  According to the UK English Housing Survey (2019) there are nearly 300,000 English-owned second homes in Europe. Yet now that owners face a limit of spending 90 days out of every 180 in the Schengen area, some are deciding to sell up. They