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REAL ESTATE MARKET IN GREECE www.omase.gr. By Harry Zepidis Real Estate Agent - Athens. WHY SHOULD ONE INVEST IN GREECE?. PLEASANT CLIMATE ENJOY A VARIETY OF SCENARY GREEK HOSPITALITY High quality of service. Industrial buildings.
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REAL ESTATE MARKET IN GREECEwww.omase.gr By Harry Zepidis Real Estate Agent - Athens
WHY SHOULD ONE INVEST IN GREECE? • PLEASANT CLIMATE • ENJOY A VARIETY OF SCENARY • GREEK HOSPITALITY • High quality of service
Industrial buildings • Greece had not been highly developed on an industrial level. Thus there is a minimum availability of standardized industrial buildings
Tendencies of land for industrial use • Modern Manufacturing materials • High antiseismic constructions • Possibilities of environmental friendly technology are adopted
also • Managing services of high quality • Technical services by experts
GREEKS • Usually (80%) live in houses of their own • Tend to offer their older residence for rent, in order to buy a new modern house with a loan • They are not in debt as other Europeans
bank interests • remain stable at low rates • provide stability to the selling prices • The credit system tends to finance residence buying
Athens Zapphire thee, the ring of the earth est thou Kostis Palamas (great greek poet)
Cheap and expensive areas in Athens Expensive • Near Metro stations near shopping areas Cheaper • Old buildings near industrial regions
The last five years • Have been characterized by economical growth, with the exception of last year when the prices fell to 15%
WHY INVESTORS HESITATE? Bureaucracy in the civil services Instability of the tax system
FIRES • 2007 August: Peloponnese (230.000 hectares of wood, 40.000 hectares of agricultural land) • 2009 August: Attica 21.300 hectares of woods 65 houses
After the 2004 Olympics • Big public works • High ways as Attiki odos, Egnatia, Ionian, Northern Crete and Pelloponise motor ways • Opportunities for new investors in a small, well known country
Offices in the center of Athens • The few old traditional buildings offered in the center are expensive but extremely popular
Regions Expensive Islands • Myconos • Santorini • Corfu Foreseeing development increasing areas • Macedonia • Pelloponise • Epirus
Invest in a hotel Great variety of sizes • Cyclades, Crete, Eptanisa, Chalkidiki, Athens • From 20 bed capacity to 500 • Return of invested capital within 10 years