A Forthcoming Royal Visit To Croatia From The King And Queen Of Norway Highlights The Development On Eastern Hvar Near Sucuraj, Billed As The New Cannes
An approaching royal visit to Croatia from the King and Queen of Norway highlights the development on eastern Hvar near Sucuraj, promoted as the new Cannes. The royal partners are due on an official visit to Zagreb and the seaside town of Sibenik on May 12-13, accompanied by a hundred Norwegian businessmen, who are digging into investing opportunities in the former-Yugoslav republic as reported suite101.com.
Croatia is starting to become more and more favored as a holiday location. Enthusiastic about buying a place on an Croatian island, flat in a quiet Dalmatian town, commercial property in Dalmatia or land plot for a larger investment? According to the Law of Croatia real estate, foreign voters and companies can be owners of property in all the teritory of Republic Croatia (Istria, Kvarner, Dalmatia, Continental Croatia, and all Croatian islands).
Croatian property enquiries for the winter period of 2010 to 2011 are up from the previous year. They’re still some distance from pre crisis levels but a significant rise never the less. Transaction volumes are still low but the amount of sales converted is rising and investors who have been showing interest during the last 12 months are starting to commit. With improving economic conditions worldwide and a signs that confidence is returning in Europe, all be it slowly and carefully, it might seem the trend should continue in 2011.
One thing’s for sure, Croatian property agents are actually working for their commission. This is no bad thing. It has reduced the number of players in the market significantly. It has raised the standards as purchasers ask significantly more questions, and in general look far more closely at price. This has forced Croatian real-estate agents to be more competent, informed and armed with reasoned disagreements rather than the standard sales patter. It has helped to regulate the Croatian property market a little better as prices paid are practical. There are no men with black transient cases sneaking round the corner prepared to pay 5 times more than the property is actually worth. Those times are well behind us and fortunately so.
Price-wise, regardless of reports of falls of between 5% and 10%, actually Croatian property prices have fallen more like 20% to 30%. The cause of the variance is due to advertised and actual sales values. This is particularly true for properties in Croatia coastal locations where lots of the property is purchased by foreigners and where exchange volumes are so low that info is restricted, so much so it is tough to quantify. Similarly the current system of monitoring Croatian property prices is fairly ineffectual because of a shortage of correct info. The main source of data is that of the tax office, where contractual prices of Croatian property sold are registered. But the practice of manipulating contractual prices for tax purposes is still typically found in Croatia making available info untrustworthy.
In the seaside locations, foreign property owners are much more inclined to drop prices. Most of them have experience similar price drops in their home marketplaces and have quickly become accustomed to the idea that property is worth less than it used to be and that prices are relative. For example a significant number of foreign owners have sold property in Croatia, to use dropping prices at home, preferring to reinvest domestically. We see this trend continuing through 2011.
When thinking about the Croatian property market direction for 2011, it’s also important to take a look at Croatia’s industrial and political situation. Now Croatia is going through its own crisis of confidence, not least with the economy. Nonetheless considering the state of many of the other peripheral EU economies as well as it’s comparative size, Croatia is not alone. It is no worse than Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and possibly Belgium and is probably better in numerous examples. The country certainly hasn’t been bailed out by the Western European Union or World Financial Fund yet Also, as the EU is making an attempt to introduce a rather more strategic and coordinated industrial policy approach, Croatia, shortly to be an affiliate, should benefit.
Additionally Croatia is tackling the issue of corruption head on. There have been numerous high-profile arrests including the arrest of Ivo Sanader the former PM, as well as a considerable number of his ex ministers and it seems like this is just the start . With the press now having free reign in the democratic process stories of new government officers and their unaccountable wealth are hitting the headlines on a constant basis. It would appear that Croatia is rather unique with regard to its open tries to tackle corruption. Born by it’s need and drive to join the European Union Croatia, unlike Romania and Bulgaria, as well as some of the more established nations of the EU, has been forced to be brave and handle this difficult problem up front of Croatia ECU Advent.
This has clearly caused some negative sentiment from foreign financiers short term. But then investors are being wary for a similar reasons they’re cautious just about everywhere in Europe currently. We only really see this changing once the banks begin to lend again bringing with it a change in sentiment. This is particularly the argument for the second homes market. But medium to long term, and more specifically after Croatia joins the ECU end of 2012, things are sure to improve.
How does this affect the Croatia property market? Short term we expect there to be continued downward stress on property prices in Croatia, but with exchange volumes rising as purchasers and financiers look to take advantage of bargains as well as some solid Croatian property investment opportunities. This is right for both the foreign and domestic consumers. Medium term we expect to see Croatia join the EU, however it remains to be seen how much of a repercussion on Croatian property prices it’ll have. There are two distinct possibilities, a reasonable and stable effect or an inflationary drive. It’ll mostly depend on the EU itself and whether it is in a position to resolve it’s own issues and fix confidence in its own capability to manage and unify it’s members on the necessary money regulation in order to stop the same sovereign debt issues some of it’s members are currently facing, and of greater importance the impact which has on it’s other members and the EU itself.
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