Real Estate | Property

Bulgaria Real Estate Market 2009
All the resources found by Googling the Internet are full with controversial information and news about the actual situation of the Bulgarian real estate market.
We all know that due to the global economic crisis, Eastern Europe and implicitly Bulgaria is heavily hit, especially the real estate sector which seems to be [...]

Malaysia property purchase process and costs
How high are realtors’ and lawyers’ fees in Malaysia? What about other property purchase costs?
Transaction Costs
  Who Pays?
Stamp Duty 1% – 3% buyer
Lawyer/Solicitor’s Fees 0.4% – 1% buyer
Other Fees MYR180 (US$49) buyer
Real Estate Agent’s Fees 2% – 2.75% seller
Costs paid by buyer 1.40% – 4.00%
Costs paid by seller 2.00% – [...]

It is only me, or the mass media in each country is nothing than a huge misleading, manipulating source of lies?
In Romania, the real estate trading had really come to a standstill, because of the overpriced second hand property. Still the mass media is trying to suggest that the holiday houses in the Carpathian Mountains [...]

El Oasis de Marrakesh, a new residential project in Marrakech; located near the Palm, on 8 hectares. The project includes a complex of three residences with a total of nearly 1,014 apartments from 60 to 200 m2 including 28 duplex. The m2 is available from 20,000 DH.
In charge of the project El Oasis de Marrakesh [...]

From recent reviews it looks like Greece real estate market is overstated.
The high supply and the high prices combined with rising interest rates almost bring the real estate market to a standstill.
In one word the market does not move and the demand is very limited.
Especially the newly build apartments in Greece are so expensive compared [...]

The so called real estate experts and evaluators !!
Few months ago I sold for someone a 50 years old huge house in a central location. The client was a she lawyer who invested 180,000 Euros in that house with the intention of reselling it 1 year later when the real estate prices in Bucharest will [...]

So, you have little money to invest and many years to go until retirement.
You have always heard about different people making money out of the real estate investments in foreign countries.
You would like to do the same but you think that you don’t have enough money and the courage is missing too.
Also, the prices increased so [...]

A couple of years ago I bought a piece of land in Romania; around 10,000 square meters, located somewhere in a village, 40 KM distance from Bucharest.
I bought it directly from the owner. Initially, the owner built the fence with the intention to construct a house for his old mother, but sadly she died before [...]

Ok, here we go again, Bulgaria.
Everything seems to be cheap in Bulgaria, the rent, the food, and of course the properties.
Many properties on sale are so cheap, that one may ask how it is possible and why a property should be on sale for such a ridiculous price.
Thousands of properties are on sale, and I’m not talking [...]

As promised, we are going to reopen the subject on the Bulgarian real estate;”to buy or not to buy a property in Bulgaria”.
In the 90s and even at the beginning of 2000, nobody really heard about Bulgaria, and if they did they heard only the bad things. I bet many of you didn’t even know which [...]

As I wrote in one of my recent articles, it is all about marketing.
One day, I woke up in the morning thinking about washing powder. The funny thing was that we were out of washing powder so we were in need of fresh supplies
Let me tell you, I never ever bought washing powder by [...]