Buying property in Bulgaria. Categories

Apartments in Bulgaria are called apartments regardless of how they look. Apartments come in one bedroom, two bedroom, three, and so on, studios and studios. Also, there is such a property as a house - (house), a villa, a cottage.

The apartment consists of a living room with kitchen box and separate bedrooms. There are no dedicated kitchens in the Bulgarian resort building. Such apartments are found only in cities, and most often in the socialist or royal housing stock. Therefore, the studio is just one room with a kitchenette.

There is a rather interesting category atelier. Atelier under the Bulgarian laws is not housing. This is a workshop. Of course, you can buy it and you can live there, but you cannot get an owner's visa on the basis of a document on the ownership of the studio. Since it will officially be considered that you do not have housing as such.

Many sellers are silent about this, and some do not even know it.

Resort Property

If you decide to buy an apartment personally for yourself and your family in order to travel here for a summer vacation, then first of all, you need to decide on the resort.

The Bulgarian coast is divided into North and South. This is a conditional division, the difference in air temperatures is one or two degrees, but it is noticed that it rains more often on the North Coast, and the vegetation is thicker and more beautiful there. The resort "Golden Sands" is located on the North coast, "Sunny Beach" - on the South. There are still a lot of Black Sea resorts smaller, but not worse, in my opinion, even better. Their location is very easy to learn from Wikipedia. Everything around Varna is north. Everything around Bourgas, Sozopol, Tsarevo is south. There are different beaches and beaches near the north and south - this is important to consider. In the south, the beaches are longer and 90% sandy.

When buying property for yourself, choose based on your state of health. What suits you best: dry heat or wet, that is, north or south. Can you go down the hill to the beach and climb back. Can you walk for a long time in the open sun or do you need shelters in the form of trees? Do you need mineral waters and thermal springs at sea? These are on the north coast. And in the south there is a whole mud resort - Pomorie.

Baths in Bulgaria are rare

Chose a resort - choose the distance from the sea (line). Of course, the most expensive real estate in a particular location will be on the first line.

Of course, it is good to live close to the sea. However, here we must look at what kind of resort. If Sunny Beach or Golden Sands, then the first line is very noisy. If the Seagull, then the first line is just perfect. And so on. We must look at the flow of tourists.

By the way, it is necessary to take into account that the apartments on the upper floors, regardless of the line, always cost more than their own kind in the same building, because they are specific. Also, you can always find a cheap apartment on the first line in relation to prices in the same building - but this apartment will be located in the basement (for example), that is, not the viewport, often with one window and no balcony.

Of course, the view apartment with a balcony is always better than the other way around. In the south without a balcony is very difficult to live.

Therefore, you should always delve into the formation of the price of a particular apartment based on the general pricing policy of the complex in which the apartment is located. Simply ask why this apartment is the cheapest in the building. An honest seller will always explain it to you. The dishonest will start to get out and you will immediately notice it.

By the way, balneological and ski resorts can be considered on the same principle. Only there the first line is calculated from the lift (route) or mineral (thermal) pool (source).

Do not forget about the number of floors. In Bulgaria, there is such a moment as denivelation - the slope of the terrain. Therefore, there are such floors as suter and stalls. The parterre is, in fact, our first floor, and the basement-basement of the basements. And there, too, there are apartments that offer for sale. As a rule, they are the cheapest in their complex.

I do not like first floors - the best option is the second or third. More air, light and less noise and chances that someone will look out the window.

Due to denivelation in one building of the complex, it may turn out that your apartment will be simultaneously on the first and second and third floors. That is, from the side of the slide it will be the first floor, and from the back side - the second or third. I now think in Russian style. However, in Bulgaria there is confusion in this matter. In some houses the account of the floors goes as it is with us, and in some of the suter it turns out that you need to take the elevator to the first floor (if there is one).

Always find out what kind of floor is being offered to you and whether there is an elevator in the building if you need one. Lifts are rare, because in Bulgaria adopted low-rise construction, especially on the first lines. With the exception of a few very large complexes built for a long time.

The only correct rule when choosing a property for yourself is to listen to the inner voice. If you come into the apartment and you feel good here - this is yours. If something is not pleasant, not comfortable, you should not even delve into it - this is not what you need. In this case, you just need to look for your own. After all, you will relax in this place, so you should be comfortable here no matter what.

Investment property

Why so long I explain about the apartments, lines and floors. Because the price of an apartment and its quality will depend on the totality of these characteristics. And if you are making a rental investment, then this is even more important. There is already the location of the apartment should be the most advantageous for all characteristics. After all, if you yourself on personal preferences (and because of the cost too) will be able to rest in a suture, then renting an apartment at market price, and even more so sell it later, will be very difficult.

Therefore, the ideal apartment for investment, (as experienced realtors say) is a one-bedroom apartment on the third floor of the second line overlooking the sea. And in the complex where this apartment is located, there must be a swimming pool, elevator, security, restaurant, parking and a minimum maintenance fee. Such an apartment can always be downloaded as much as possible by the guests and sold without any problems and losses.

The combination of all these characteristics is not so easy to find: everywhere there are some nuances. But to strive to reduce all the negative points when choosing an investment property is simply necessary. And here you can’t rely on your own tastes and preferences. It is necessary to proceed from general statistical data.

Property for permanent residence

This is the simplest category, but, oddly enough, it is most difficult to buy for a foreigner. Because realtor agencies are accustomed to working with resort real estate, while local small offices are engaged in urban real estate, which sell this property to their compatriots.

Nevertheless, there are a lot of offers in this market. I would say that even more than at the resort.

Property for permanent residence differs from the resort in that it is located in any city: Burgas, Varna, Sofia and so on. In Bulgaria there are a lot of small towns, in size, resembling Russian industrial-type settlements and just villages. I absolutely honestly recommend Sofia and Varna for emigration. Then Burgas and Plovdiv, and I do not recommend living in villages, especially if you have children or elderly parents. Legal immigrants often need to visit migration services, which are only in two cities of the country, and then in Varna and Burgas these are Sofia branches. They take the documents and send them to Sofia. In general, emigration is also a long and difficult topic. Here I just wanted to identify one of the reasons why I recommend living in large cities. Other reasons: schools, hospitals, work (which is not in the villages), emigrant communities, cultural educational organizations. It is very important for me. I think, as for most.

So, when choosing an apartment for permanent residence, you must take into account its location, based on the composition of your family. If you have children and you intend to send them to school - push off from the school.

If you start the car, be sure to inquire about the presence of a garage and surface parking and whether it is included in the price of the apartment.

An important point - the type of heating of the apartment. The fact is that in Bulgaria centralized steam heating is not accepted as in Russia. "Parno" here is only in large cities and then in some areas for several houses. It is quite expensive. Many Bulgarians move to live in one room for the winter and turn on their heating radiators (there is a regulator) only for a couple of hours overnight.

Other types of heating: convector air conditioners, wood and coal stoves, electric radiators.

It is rather difficult to say the cost of specific utilities - here it is all private, each company puts its own figures, which depend on many factors, split up into production and delivery, and then equalize over a period. That is, a single price for a kilowatt hour or a cubic meter of water on the Internet is not written on any of the sites of service companies: all this must be calculated independently, based on actual figures. I haven't done this calculation for a long time: we just pay the bills that come to us.

But in 2012, I believed and it turned out that Sofia had the lowest prices for utilities. A few stotinki per cubic meter and a couple of leva per MWh, but still cheaper.

Also, it is necessary to measure the apartment. The fact is that in Bulgaria the footage of the apartment does not at all correspond to the sum of its residential and living space. In the meters that you buy will include the width of the walls, the share of the entrance and so on. This is absolutely impossible to avoid - there is nothing in common, that is, the entrance in equal parts belongs to the tenants of the house. However, there are apartments in which the percentage of common parts is quite small (up to 20%) and this means that the main part of the usable space is located inside your apartment.

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