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Time to buy property in Greece?.... prices have declined

Supreme court of Greece attorney Christos Iliopoulos gives basic legal advice on whether now is the right time to buy property in Greece.

Australia: 29 Nov 2012

It's been decades during which real estate property prices in Greece have been steadily increasing. Purchasing property in Greece was a near safe bet for almost time immemorial. Especially since the property boom of 1998 onwards, when Greek banks started offering loans and mortgages to a relative "virgin" Greek mortgage - finance market, values in many areas have skyrocketed.
That until 2010. When the crisis hit hard in Greece, property values first stopped rising. And then, for the last two or three years, they have started their steady, albeit controlled, decline. Until a couple of years ago foreign prospective buyers may have thought that the properties they liked in Greece were a bit overvalued. Now this is history.