– “We simply did not know, Ilia… we thought that life was a game… our salaries and income was increasing year after year, the prices of the properties were rising week by week… we were not realizing what it meant for us to buy a very expensive property or sign a 30 years’ loan, committing ..

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2007 – “Hello, Ilia, how are you?” (a major banker on the phone) – “I am fine, sir, how about you?” – “I have here someone who has just transferred in our bank 2 million Euros. The money arrived yesterday, he has come today and he is leaving the day after. He wants to buy ..

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“We went to this training on how to shoot correctly photos for Real Estate properties. Instead of teaching us, the trainer was narrating us about the history of photography and the components of a camera. What kind of joke is this?” I had sent two colleagues of mine to the above mentioned training, in order ..

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Replying to your questions Part 4 of my reply to Mr Pedro Matos. Hello to everyone. Last week I analysed to you the subject of old residential blocks from many points of view. But today I would like to remind you what may happen to us if we simply do nothing about it. Why is ..

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Part 3 to read part 1, click here to read part 2, click here to read part 4, click here Replying to your questions Hello to everyone. One of my constant readers, Mr Pedro Matos, sent me a very interesting question. He is a foreigner living in Romania and asks something that thousands of people ..

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One of the most favourite topics of discussion during the last 2,5 years was definitely the situation in the residential market. We have written too many articles explaining why many residential developers ended up with unsold apartments, being located at wrong areas, overpriced and not properly designed and executed. Meanwhile “Prima Casa” entered into our ..

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