Overseas property news - Romania roaring toward record sales

Romania roaring toward record sales

Romania’s property market is set for a record €23billion worth of property transactions this year, according to officials from the National Union of Notaries Public in Romania (UNNPR)...

The Government body is making this prediction based on the amount of tax it levied against property transactions last year of €360million, a 400% rise on monies charged in 2006.

Viorel Manescu, chairman of UNNPR commented: “In the January - November period, the tax collected and transferred by the notaries public for real estate transactions amounted to 1.065 billion RON in 2006, and for the whole of 2007, we predict a 1.2 billion RON revenue tax. For 2008, we estimated an around 30% increase, triggered mainly by the upward trend of real estate prices," said

Buyer markets

Dan Grigore, Sales Director of Impact,  Romania’s biggest Developer, stated: “When the country’s mortgage market matures, attracting foreign investors will become even less of a priority.

“More than 60% of our buyers are Romanian. In terms of foreign interest, people living in Ireland, the UK, Spain, Poland, Hungary, France and Italy are the biggest non-national investors. The main reason we are not exposing ourselves to the international buyer market however, is that we as a company do not want to create ghost towns where buyers invest in a property and leave it vacant year round.

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