Owning your own home

Does anybody on here have experience of buying property abroad?
If so, how does it work? How does the tax work? I can imagine there would be some considerable costs incurred moving money from one country to another?

Sorry if this a dumb question. It's new ground for me.

i do. france, for eg, has a whole cottage industry helping brits buy locally with total purchase cost around 8%.

i dont remember fx costs being significant, but obv you are exposed to fx rates fluctuations if your mortgage is local.