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Post by Sasha on Jul 23, 2007 15:03:23 GMT 1
As there are no official figures on the number of foreigners owning property in Croatia, Zagreb daily "Jutarnji" estimates that about 70.000 foreigners (this includes also company ownership) own property in Croatia.
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Post by irac on Jul 23, 2007 16:29:09 GMT 1
In today's paper?
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Post by capio on Jul 23, 2007 16:32:37 GMT 1
How many of them are Croatians that live in Germany etc? A lot I suspect.
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Post by californiacro on Jul 23, 2007 17:55:52 GMT 1
As there are no official figures on the number of foreigners owning property in Croatia, Zagreb daily "Jutarnji" estimates that about 70.000 foreigners (this includes also company ownership) own property in Croatia. I read this before.... I think it was last year. I wonder why they don't properly get numbers.... Someone mentions that they are counting in Croatians living in foreign country's that have property.... that is not how it works. It is foreigners not citizens living abroad that they are counting. I think that there are more foreigners than that owning property here......... I guess we will never know till they properly start recording data.
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Post by Sasha on Jul 23, 2007 18:16:39 GMT 1
I saw this today, but I think it was published on Saturday, Sorry, cannot find it now.
The figure could be accurate as it is estimated that about 30,000 Slovenes own property in Croatia.
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Post by Graham - Bosmere on Jul 23, 2007 19:06:52 GMT 1
Probably a lot of Serbs owning property in Croatia as well
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Post by darcy on Jul 24, 2007 4:49:53 GMT 1
Are properties owned by the Zagreb Bank, the Privredna Bank also included? Are the Telecom properties included as well?
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Post by irac on Jul 24, 2007 6:50:16 GMT 1
Couldn't find it in Saturday's papers or even Sunday's Slobodna. I'd love to find out who was the journo. Are you certain it was printed? I saw this today, but I think it was published on Saturday, Sorry, cannot find it now. The figure could be accurate as it is estimated that about 30,000 Slovenes own property in Croatia.
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Post by irac on Jul 24, 2007 6:55:35 GMT 1
Graham, you have a point, a large number of "unclaimed" properties are owned by non-resident Croatian Serbs, or deceased same. It's very unsatisfynig when such nonsense is published as you need to define, what is property?
As: Foreign banks, supermarkets, factories, holdings all own property that can be in a number of lots or parts, thus all properties are "foreign owned". 200 holiday apartments owned by a shell company (one of many) of Atlas in Dalmatia are "owned" by an off-shore company and have been exposed by HRT1 as avoiding paying taxes here and abroad - thus we have 200 "foreign owned" properties that actually belong to domestic concerns.
I think the croats living in Germany thing is a non-issue, they'd have bought with Croatian papers and thus be local.
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Post by irac on Jul 24, 2007 6:59:58 GMT 1
One thing I don't get, is that last year it was published in a number of papers, including Jutarnji List, that 30,000properties were under foreign ownership, yet it's more than doubled in a year!
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Post by Carol on Jul 24, 2007 10:46:43 GMT 1
i suppose there is always the possibility that the journalist just made the number up??
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Post by Carol on Jul 24, 2007 10:49:49 GMT 1
after all, stirring up public resentment (or property owner greed) regarding the foreign onwership is something that the press has done before. quite often actually. they do it in the weeks they are not trying to frighten people that the EU is coming to change their lives and steal their country
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Post by capio on Jul 24, 2007 11:29:36 GMT 1
after all, stirring up public resentment (or property owner greed) regarding the foreign onwership is something that the press has done before. quite often actually. they do it in the weeks they are not trying to frighten people that the EU is coming to change their lives and steal their country I always laugh when I hear Croats say they don't want the eu to come in and change their lives...erm hello most of you live in poverty. If I couldn't afford to buy my kids new shoes or to buy nice food, or a rug for my place I'd want change.
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Post by zorro on Jul 24, 2007 19:19:55 GMT 1
...would tractor drivers in Croatia please not litter the road with their cargo!! Have a look behind you once and a while.
THANKS!!
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Post by mirabelle on Jul 24, 2007 20:08:00 GMT 1
Tell us more oh masked one - was the one in front of you carrying the 70000 foreigners or just their properties?
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