English guy moving to Split.

[exgasman]

Hi Guys
First a big thanks for all the information on this site.
I hope to move to Split at the end of the summer and sort out some sort of business and property ready for next year.
Just one question for the moment, does anyone have a suggestion for a decent real estate agent who deals with Split?

[usplitu]

Hi and welcome to the site, do you know Split well ? I would really recommend coming and staying in Split for a while and sussing out your favourite area before committing to a longer lease. If you are arriving at the end of the summer, you have a great chance of renting a summer/tourist rental apartment for the winter months for a highly reduced rate. Good rental agents are trgostan and matulic and broker, all have decent enough websites. Most of the cheaper stock is rented privately through a local paper, Mali Oglasnik.

[exgasman]

Thanks for the reply, I have travelled all over the area but not recently and there was just something about the place and the people that periodically drew my thoughts back. The time in my life is right with my son off to Uni in September and Croatia finally joining the EU, seems like the stars finally aligning for a change. As for off season rent those were my thoughts, with four or five months of renting with my feet on the ground I should be able to formulate some sort of plan.
Many thanks again for the info and I will be scouring the forum for knowledge, good or bad..

[Carol]

Good luck. I used to live just outside Split and I visited again this summer. It does feel like things are changing for the better, albeit very, very slowly.

We were in your place 10 years ago and we tried to imagine how the place would change. What we thought would happen within two years is more or less done after ten years e.g. the upgrading of the magistrala between Split and the airport. Whereas the differences we thought we would see after 10 years, I now think will take 30-50 years.

One change for the better that I was glad to see though was that the rule of law seems to be observed more readily now. Previously people used to observe the law until it suited them to do otherwise. Then they would quickly do things to make the system work for them before resuming their law abiding norms. It was apparent in big things (not declaring income/ paying taxes and bribing officials) and in little things like driving the wrong way down a one way street.
I don't know about the big things - you need to live somewhere for a while to see that - but the little things are definitely observed.

This will make your life much easier because the very people who didn't obey the law themselves would watch you with deep suspicion that you had come to their country but wouldn't respect it enough to obey the law (which got very wearying).

[chasingthedonkey]

The more the merrier! Come on over. If you have facebook, you could also join this group - www.facebook.com/groups/292593064191744/?fref=ts

Loads of good info about Split, and chance to meet new friends.