How I can help Cyprus property buyers

The Black Art of Buying Property in Cyprus™ ® © 2006 All rights fully reserved

Demystifying the Black Art, often referred to as the “black art” because of its complexity and uncertainty, buying property in Cyprus is not as difficult or puzzling as people think !! Because it’s a black art, it’s really hard to tell who’s good and who’s not.  I guarantee you’ll get your money’s worth from this site because it is free !!

Don’t even think of buying an investment property or home in Cyprus until you have read everything that is presented here by the Cyprus Property Information Centre.  My recommendation is ‘do it’, but confidently and be well-informed and then I know that you won’t regret it.

I am active in the property business and in that way I am closely in touch with issues in the Cyprus Property Market and can offer FREE information to those seeking to buy and sell property as new homes, holiday homes and investments.  I certainly did not undertake just one property transaction in Cyprus and appoint myself an expert !!

The web sites of the property developers are often not up to date on matters concerned with property procedures and finance in Cyprus.

I have also published the information on this site in a downloadable form to save you the hastle of saving hundreds of pages. It is FREE. Contact me. 

There are sites that are very negative about the Cyprus property market and cite every horror story that they can get their hands on.  These do happen but befall only a very, very small proportion of Cyprus property buyers.  And of those we think that the vast majority were unprepared.

The annual value of residential property transactions is estimated at GBP 1.0 billion each year.  This could well represent in excess of 4,000 property sales per annum which puts the handful of horror stories into perspective.

I think that this negative approach gives the wrong first impression of Cyprus and its property market to many people thinking of buying a home in Cyprus.

This is one of the reasons why I decided to create this site which has a positive approach to dealing with potential issues and recommending ways of being a successful purchaser of a home in Cyprus.

I research issues raised with leading lawyers, rather than guess, and try to pinpoint the particular risk and suggest ways that risk can be reduced or dealt with.

I have recently undertaken a personal review of some articles which have been published on Specific Performance.  I have explained in a layman’s way how the Specific Performance property law in Cyprus actually works in protecting purchasers. This is backed up with legal opinions.  All the material is available on this site to Members.

I acknowledge that the vast majority of information presented here is already published on the public information web sites in Cyprus.  You could find it yourself.  But the information is published across a great number of sites and sometimes quite deep down inside them.  So this site saves you the task of doing your own research.  In addition we put that into the context of personal experience.  Above all it is a positive experience that most Cyprus Property Buyers experience rather than a negative one.

This is a blog site and in the tradition of blogs I intend to focus on current day issues and articles which are published and comment on them rather than just publish licensed material from other sites word for word or just regurgitate what is written in the Cyprus newspapers.

Recognising that renting and letting of holiday homes and investment properties is an increasingly important part of the Cyprus Property Market I have now added information on these subjects. I am independent of the major developers, estate agencies, letting agencies and property marketing companies.

All of the information I present here is COMPLETELY FREE.

If you wish to ask a question or need help with a property problem in Cyprus please Contact me.

Regards
John (dolmadis) 

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