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Post by polako on Mar 31, 2009 20:31:32 GMT 1
A place in the sun is having its exhibition on 3rd to the 5th April 2009 in London and Croatian properties will be featured if anyone has some spare cash lying under a mattress  . For further ticket info, check out the place in the sun website www.aplaceinthesun.com/visitorinfo |
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Post by Madgolfer on Apr 2, 2009 19:28:07 GMT 1
Pre ticket sales are up a third on last year if you believe the publicity.
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Post by Carol on Apr 2, 2009 20:32:02 GMT 1
Only today I was wondering if they are still doing these. We did it in April 2006 and I have to say we were inundated with visitors at that time. But most turned out to be property tourists: apparently attending trade exhibitions is what passes for entertainment??. I'd be very surprised if the stands will be busy this year unless its potential emigrees?
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Post by Madgolfer on Apr 3, 2009 19:37:35 GMT 1
I would say that following previous exhibitions we do genrally see a marked increase in enquiry levels. Lets see what happens over the next week or so.
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Post by Madgolfer on Apr 6, 2009 6:56:43 GMT 1
Talking to a colleague this morning, it appears that the show was very well attended, perhaps due in part to the good weather in London over the weekend. Carol wrote; "I'd be very surprised if the stands will be busy this year unless its potential emigrees?" This was apparently very much the case, lots of people looking to get out of the UK. I wonder why? |
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Post by Carol on Apr 6, 2009 10:29:38 GMT 1
Did he tell them about visa problems in Croatia?
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Post by indianalindsay on Apr 6, 2009 11:53:02 GMT 1
Did he tell them about visa problems in Croatia? Do we believe that this has just been sorted out? Am I wrong in believing that as a house owner I can get a 12 month visa? I think that the biggest barrier would be a cap on the number of visitors that you can have every year. Also the difficulty in renting the property on a weekly basis during the holiday season. All considerable negatives. |
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Post by Ribaric on Apr 6, 2009 13:09:41 GMT 1
Did he tell them about visa problems in Croatia? Do we believe that this has just been sorted out? Am I wrong in believing that as a house owner I can get a 12 month visa? I think that the biggest barrier would be a cap on the number of visitors that you can have every year. Also the difficulty in renting the property on a weekly basis during the holiday season. All considerable negatives. I think you are mixing two things here Lindsay. You can indeed get a 12-month renewable temporary residence visa if you own a residential property and you satisfy other normal criteria. This is for residency purposes only and expressly prohibits any commercial activity whatsoever. You can't rent out the house and, at the same time, say this is your private residence which gave you access to a resident's visa. |
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Post by indianalindsay on Apr 6, 2009 13:23:00 GMT 1
Do we believe that this has just been sorted out? Am I wrong in believing that as a house owner I can get a 12 month visa? I think that the biggest barrier would be a cap on the number of visitors that you can have every year. Also the difficulty in renting the property on a weekly basis during the holiday season. All considerable negatives. I think you are mixing two things here Lindsay. You can indeed get a 12-month renewable temporary residence visa if you own a residential property and you satisfy other normal criteria. This is for residency purposes only and expressly prohibits any commercial activity whatsoever. You can't rent out the house and, at the same time, say this is your private residence which gave you access to a resident's visa. I probably didn't express what I wanted to say very clearly. I suspect that a lot of people want to buy a house for private use and for investment reasons at the same time. As you say, Croatian law does not allow you to do this. I believe that this stops a lot of people buying property. If I want to rent it would have stopped me. In another thread someone was saying that there is a cap on how many visitors you can have per season. Am I muddled on this point? Carol is usually very clear, but I am not sure what specific point she is making on this occassion. David |
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Post by Carol on Apr 6, 2009 13:40:08 GMT 1
Sorry what i meant was: Assuming that a lot of the people who wish to leave the UK now are not retired (on a fixed income: aren't this group returning now the £ is weak??) or otherwise do not need to earn a living, did the agent tell these people of the problems they will face in Croatia in getting a permit which will allow them to earn money?
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Post by indianalindsay on Apr 6, 2009 14:29:47 GMT 1
Sorry what i meant was: Assuming that a lot of the people who wish to leave the UK now are not retired (on a fixed income: aren't this group returning now the £ is weak??) or otherwise do not need to earn a living, did the agent tell these people of the problems they will face in Croatia in getting a permit which will allow them to earn money? Thats correct. CRO must still gets its marketing sorted out. At the moment it only appeals to a small group (mainly yachties), retirees but not families nor twenty-somethings. Although I am not suggesting it should be like Ibiza. If Croatia wants to grow economically it needs to change some of the renting laws and embrace marketing to a wider spectrum of the population. Mind you having said that, these are exaxctly the reasons why I would be less likely to purchase a house!! Regards |
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Post by Madgolfer on Apr 8, 2009 8:22:02 GMT 1
This may answer your question. I today just have returned from Fina, Regos, blah, blah, blah and they have accepted (very good of them  ) my going on to minimum wage. Great. The figures are as follows; If you pay monthly contributions on minimum wage (minimum wage is 2.747,00kn), your costs are: - retirement security benefit tax I. = 412.05kn - retirement security benefit tax II.= 137,35kn - health insurance tax = 412,05kn - employment tax = 46,70kn - contributions for accident at work= 13,74kn - tax and surtax = 61,43kn ______________________________________ Total: =1.083,32kn This means that for not much more than a decent night out in the UK, I can live and work here and am also covered for health insurance and all pension contributions. There is apparently another small fee you can pay in addition to the standard Croatian health cover, but I am not sure what "extras" you get for this and I am looking into it. Its probably just one extra bed pan a day or some such nonsense, I'll let you know when I find out. The quotes we have been given for "private" BUPA type health insurance alone are higher than this, without the ability to then work! Does that answer the question? I am not sure. They are two separate issues I know, but the two routes are open to people are. 1) Anyone owning property here can get a 12 month residency visa (subject to meeting the criteria) and not work. 2) Anyone with a d.o.o can get a work permit and stay within the law for just over a hundred quid a month! Sounds pretty fair to me. I am still looking into the "self employed person" issue which came up in Feb 09 and this may prove to be another option as "self employed" people only pay tax etc as and when they earn it. More to follow. I do wonder sometimes if people planning to re-locate, work or live abroad think they they can do it for free? Believe me I have met a few.  |
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Post by Madgolfer on Apr 8, 2009 8:28:32 GMT 1
Rib wrote;
"This is for residency purposes only and expressly prohibits any commercial activity whatsoever. You can't rent out the house and, at the same time, say this is your private residence which gave you access to a resident's visa."
This is currently under discussion/review and it may well prove to be the case that you can get around the problem by having a rental agreement with yourself, for 42sqM of your property, for your own use.
OK you would still need a d.o.o. before you could rent out the rest or use it for commercial activity, but it might be a good loophole for some people. More to follow.
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Post by Carol on Apr 8, 2009 8:29:46 GMT 1
The extra health care costs around 90kn per month. In return you do not have to pay 15kn every time you visit the doctor and you do not have to pay 15kn per prescription for medicines (i.e. for the ones that used to be free, not for the ones you always had to pay for). You can also make an annual payment which I think was about £100 for year.
Basically its not worth it unless you plan to become regularly ill or to develop a serious illness requiring lots of visits to doctors, hospitals etc
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Post by crojoe on Apr 9, 2009 14:30:10 GMT 1
Place in the sun in London? Where and when and what will it cost? Do I have to pay a congestion charge? I think I'll just stay put in Zagreb right now as sun is free and plenty of it these days. My trees are blossoming! Time to strike up the old barbeque, and forget going to work today. hehe.
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