Product Description

Bulgaria is attracting increasing interest from property buyers around the world - fascinated by its property investment potential, glorious stretches of golden sands, historic towns and breathtakingly unspoilt scenery. With its low property prices Bulgaria provides many different types of accommodation to suit all tastes - whether it's a mountain retreat in a ski resort, a seaside apartment, a period country house, or a modern city- based apartment. And it all comes with a low cost of living, too. Bulgaria is set to join the EU in 2007 and property prices are already showing significant increases.
Jonathan White's goal in this book is to provide you with exactly the information he himself searched for when he bought his first property in Bulgaria.

• The pros and cons of buying property in Bulgaria
• 10 basic steps to buying a property in Bulgaria
• Financing your purchase
• Renovating and furnishing your home
• Understanding tax and insurance
• Letting your property to provide an income
• Buying land
• Getting to know Bulgaria and the Bulgarians

Plus much more, including useful websites, contacts, practical tips and sample contracts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171993 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 219 pages

A Place in the Sun Magazine, September 2005
"A godsend for holiday home buyers and property investors alike."

Shelter Offshore.com, August 2005
"At last! A well written, up to date and completely all encompassing guide to buying property in Blugaria."

Synopsis
Bulgaria is attracting increasing interest from property buyers around the world - fascinated by its property investment potential, glorious stretches of golden sands, historic towns and breathtakingly unspoilt scenery. With its low property prices, Bulgaria provides many different types of accommodation to suit all tastes - whether it's a mountain retreat in a ski resort, a seaside apartment, a period country house, or a modern city-based apartment. And it all comes with a low cost of living, too. Bulgaria is set to join the EU in 2007 and property prices are already showing significant increases. Jonathan White's goal in this book is to provide you with exactly the information he himself searched for when he bought his first property in Bulgaria - the pros and cons of buying property in Bulgaria - 10 basic steps to buying a property in Bulgaria - financing your purchase - renovating and furnishing your home - understanding tax and insurance - letting your property to provide an income - buying land - setting up a Bulgarian Company. Plus much more, including useful websites, contacts, practical tips and sample contracts.

Customer Reviews

Very detailed and helpful book!
This book is very detailed and contains lots of practical advice. I personally found the section on using foreign exchange transfers very helpful, saving me time and money. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone considering buying in Bulgaria. The practical tips in the appendix really helped me.

Disappointing
I bought this book with high hopes,currently being in the process of buying a property in Bulgaria. I was deeply disappointed. Much of the book contains bland generalisations and statements of the obvious. Much of it seemed to rely on the author's knowledge of Varna (a Black Sea coastal resort), which is no good to anyone buying a property in a ski resort, for example.

There was also blatant advertising for a foreign exchange company. I can only assume that the company helped fund the book.

I would estimate that less than 5% of the book is of any practical use, and much of that information can be obtained from a few internet searches. I am now nearing completion on my Bulgarian property purchase and this book has been of no assistance.

Very Informative
I bought a copy of this book in Golden sands from an estate agent known as Varna Property Sales.

The book helped me decide what I should be looking out for, I returned to England and read the book thoroughly, the reading was very clear.

I returned to Bulgaria armed with many questions for the estate agents, after which I bought a lovely detached house and have now retired to Bulgaria. If you are thinking of buying for investment or living, you should buy this book first.