Buying property in Bulgaria - advice

Hurby

If you are interested in Bulgarian property, my advice is NEVER to use the services of a property company in the UK. Go to Bulgaria yourself, have a look round, put yourself in the shoes of a local and hire an interpreter which is not recommended by a glossy estate agent. Ideally, you can go into a translation agency (there are dozens and dozens of them in city centres) and ask for a translator. They are all frelance and will happily agree a rate to work for you. The next step is to contact estate agents and express interest in properties as if you were a local and not a 'loaded Brit'. If you are interested in a particular area of the country away from the Black Sea and the ski resorts, you may browse local advertising newspapers or even go with your interpreter into a local pub (it works wonders in getting to know potential house bargains). Bear in mind that residents of villages and small towns desert them en mass to move to bigger cities and abroad in search of work and some of them are really desperate to sell. I have seen adverts for decent village houses with big yards for as little as £1000-£1500.

seven-day-weekend

Good advice; it's the same here in rural Spain, the properties can be got SO much cheaper if you do it locally.