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Post by riki on Mar 2, 2014 7:13:40 GMT 1
Someone told me that a lot of houses were gifted to Croatians after the war but they couldnt sell them for 20 years. This would be around next year. Has anyone heard of this? Will the market suddenly be swamped with houses for sale?
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Post by crojoe on Mar 2, 2014 8:25:42 GMT 1
Someone told me that a lot of houses were gifted to Croatians after the war but they couldnt sell them for 20 years. This would be around next year. Has anyone heard of this? Will the market suddenly be swamped with houses for sale? I doubt that very much, as it will probably be passed onto family. But, there are plenty of properties available right now, especially inland. The housing market in Croatia (in certain areas) is stagnant. Even on the outskirts of Zagreb you can now get a house for £50,000 to £100,000. A giant 3 story house just down the road from me is selling for £180,000 (10 years empty). Another mansion of a house for £350,000 (15 years empty). Not to many Croats want to sell their houses that they live in (logical), but as times get tougher I think we'll start seeing more weekend places, second house and coastal houses hit the market? Croatians didn't really buy into buying a house on a mortgage, but often did it in stages. Buy land, lay foundation (within 2 years of plans being drawn up), build walls (self-build), roof, get connected to utilities, move in then 10 years later put plaster on the walls. |
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Post by ZAD on Mar 2, 2014 22:06:34 GMT 1
Someone told me that a lot of houses were gifted to Croatians after the war but they couldnt sell them for 20 years. This would be around next year. Has anyone heard of this? Will the market suddenly be swamped with houses for sale? This is totally incorrect. |
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Post by amatesic on Mar 10, 2014 17:09:17 GMT 1
Hi, I have Zadar hinterland area homes owned by Serbs still moving out for as low as 40,000 euros. I hardly advertise these as I have buyers from my own network interested in these. Zadar hinterland is about 45 minutes out of Zadar. Sometimes the paperwork is not all clean ... but as long as the title is clean, the rest is all technical documentation that we as an agency manage for you with the services of our architectural firm. Right now, for instance, most houses do not have architectural plans even though they submitted their homes for legalization. We handle this requirements. We handle the energy certificate requirements. Also even if a house was not submitted for legalization people will be given one more chance ... this is what the minister of building said at the real estate association conference in Umag last year when directly asked what will happen to those that have not submitted their homes for legalization...her response was ... they will be given one more chance, however the penalty cost will be higher. If they do not submit by the next deadline, then an inspector will go to the home, give them a warning and another 3 months to submit and then if they do not the homes/illegal buildings will be removed at the cost of the owner. So all is not lost if you come across a house you want to buy but the people did not submit the house for legalization. I have not come across any. However I have come across a lot who have not submitted the architectural paperwork only the formal submission ... they have about 70 days to submit this documentation as the minister said about 3 weeks ago that a change was going into effect that will state that people have 60 days to submit the formal architectural documentation and if they do not do so, their legalization submission will be thrown out.
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Post by amatesic on Mar 10, 2014 17:18:38 GMT 1
Also serbs can resell their rebuilt houses after 10 years, if they took the offer that the government gave them...problem is that many did not, so the houses sit there having been rebuilt, while these serbs live in apartments in town ... you see they have to give up their apartment in town upon signing the takeover of the rebuilt house. They are smart and canny ... they have figured the system. Given that the children of serbs were also given rights of being "taken care of", its turning out that the serbs have effectively worked out a system .... to get both the apartment they are now living in supposedly temporarily and the rebuilt house. Also the 10 year period does not start until they sign the government contract on signover of the house. So they are waiting till there old age, living in town and then they will sign the government contracts on the rebuilt houses, sometimes these houses have been built in a completely new village set up for them ... and their kids will be "taken care of" by being allowed to take over the apartments in town. And one wonders why we Croatians as a whole have issues with them. They worked the Yugoslav system for their benefit before and are doing it again, yet they will cry that we are mistreating them .. sorry people that they are.
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