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milky   
12 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Only when the average house is affordable to the average wage earner in any given area will the housing market recover. Unless the housing market crashes back to this figure rapidly, all that will happen is a stagnated market will wait for earnings and the effects of inflation to bring about the balance.
milky   
8 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

they're not going to build if no-one can afford to buy the things in the end."

unlike what they did in the rest of the world. One fifth of property in Ireland is empty due to its bubble. The developers are not rational, as they are driven by profit and an acute blind faith in the free-market.
milky   
7 Sep 2011
Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]

The system is pretty sh1t on an international level as wonderfully portrayed in this book.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_paresse
Maybe Poland is worse than usual because of their grey governmental Authoritarianism past, and they(the people)are now victims. Now, that the system is gone, they are acting the way a bunch of Soviet Russian soldiers would have acted when their captain was not around. This could answer the reasons why office staff are so ultra bureaucratic and unhelpful,restaurant staff are useless,driver behave like apes with their imaginary third lane,people vote for very right wing parties,listen to Radio Maria,dance to Disco Polo.
milky   
2 Sep 2011
Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

The Irish are without doubt the ones to have a night out with. I consider them to be the most fun to be with, friendly and gregarious. Sit in an Irish pub, and within the hour, musicians will appear from nowhere, in another hour, everyone is singing their their heads off. At closing time the landlord closes the curtains and locks the front door, then he lowers the lights. You're in for a good night.

Sounds like my local back home.

go to the small towns and villages, and you can see misery everywhere, written on their faces. Seems to me, they want to drink as much as they can in the shortest time possible until they are legless and incoherent. Then they become a bore to be with. Why are, the Polish so miserable?

Wouldn't you be if you live there,in one of those towns. Even driving through them I feel so depressed, but you have to stay focused so that you don't knock down a drunk falling in the middle of the road. I met Poles in Ireland from towns like these and they moaned the whole time they were in Ireland (about having nothing to do) and wanted nothing more than to go back to these towns.It's a funny world.
milky   
1 Sep 2011
Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]

Maybe a few years ago when Poland was decidedly cheaper, Kraków would have been right up there but prices have soared and that makes it less attractive

exactly,but then again that is more for tourist. A place to live in has to have several factors to balance, like wages and rent and costs. It's laughable that someone would think any Polish city would fall into the list of liveable cities. Maybe a list for unliveable cities would be more suitable to a country with mass emigration.
milky   
30 Aug 2011
Law / Is running a business in Poland very profitable? [33]

/ Quote #19
=milky]Saw a book the other day about Irish writers, in a language shop in Lublin, was 85 Euro.

It's the truth....Kollataja street,the shop there,,check for yourself!
milky   
30 Aug 2011
Law / Is running a business in Poland very profitable? [33]

Check out what a childs bicycle costs in Poland and then the UK. The whole economy is fixed in Poland. Manufacturing is protected by low wages. The chinese are coming.

I agree with your main point here. Also, the price of CD's and books can be treble the price of Ireland. Saw a book the other day about Irish writers, in a language shop in Lublin, was 85 Euro. I bought the same book new for less than 10 over five years ago in Ireland.
milky   
24 Aug 2011
Life / Where are the second-hand stores in Krakow? [14]

It's funny - to me, it's one of the few reminders that Poland is still much poorer than Germany/etc.

I don't notice much difference on a daily basis, but the lack of such shops is interesting.

very true
milky   
24 Aug 2011
Life / Mosquitoes in Poland [40]

A dirty little annoying buzzing focker of a yoke, kept me awake last night.
milky   
22 Aug 2011
Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

Don't let other users scare you from coming to Poland, it is in many ways a fantastic country but has, like Denmark, also its flaws.

ahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahah mass emigration,2 euro hr minimum wage, third world road system...yea just like Denmark...
milky   
18 Aug 2011
Life / Favourite Polish movies? [107]

The other day I watched Karol: A Man Who Became Pope.

Thought the movie was too melodramatic and lots of really bad acting; looked like a Walt Disney production.
milky   
18 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

There is no such thing, or the 'normal' price of any item for that matter.

well, less abnormal

Residential real estate prices are struggling in Poland due to oversupply and increased interest rate hikes threaten to hamper demand. Even so, the second quarter experienced robust sales thanks to the lowered prices,(A major part has been played by the government's Rodzina na swoim (Family in Its Own Home) mortgage subsidies program, which helps people take out loans and buy over priced apartments.Without this market interference I wonder how much further they would have(naturally) fallen?)

which are as much as 28% below pre-2008 levels.
Compared to the peak levels seen before the global crisis (between H2 2007 and H1 2008):

House prices in Warsaw were down by 8.8% (-9.4% in real terms)
In Krakow, house prices were down by 8.8% (-10.8% in real terms)
In Lodz, prices have fallen by 15%
In Tri-City, house prices plunged by 21%
In Wroclaw, house prices were down by 28%
In Poznan, property prices plummeted by 29%

nuwireinvestor.com/articles/real-estate-sales-up-prices-down-in-poland-57720.aspx
milky   
18 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

buying properties in Ireland as you say its so cheap there,

I know some Poles who are buying property in Ireland, but most, want to return home when things improve and prices of property return to normal.
milky   
18 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

I suggested that eventually prices will reflect Polish wages. The current prices are driven by speculation and Poles purchasing from the west.
However I'm looking forward to the end of 2012 when we can reflect on this posting.

And I answered already ('Av')?????[:}

but I am confident that prices will fall

right you are there
milky   
17 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

I purchased a new apartment in central Warsaw last year KNOWING it will likely drop in value,

Would you bet on a horse with three legs?

Milky will NEVER own anything

I own lots of things including property and land.

Reality is if prices ever approached the amounts that they suggest

I suggested that eventually prices will reflect Polish wages. The current prices are driven by speculation and Poles purchasing from the west.

However I'm looking forward to the end of 2012 when we can reflect on this posting.

I doubt you are.

then buy and make yourself happy if you are not concerned with the value dropping.

That would be ilogical.

when you have cash, what should you do with it?

But property in Ireland, apartment have gone down 'on average' 51%, but you will get for much lower;or just keep your money.
milky   
17 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Despite the high supply of new housing units, developers have seen the highest sales since the fourth quarter of 2007. A major part has been played by the government’s Rodzina na swoim (Family in Its Own Home) mortgage subsidies program, which helps people take out loans and buy apartments.

This is market interference. Prices would have dropped naturally other-wise. The brown-envelope brigade at work here.

Tusk recently said in relation to the people(suffering) who took out mortgages in Swiss F. That he would not help these people, as it would be interference with the market.

Bollshit, 'Family in Its Own Home' mortgage subsidies program is absolute interference with the market.
milky   
16 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

REAS is an advisory company specializing in issues relating to the residential market. Since 1997, we have been cooperating with developers, banks, investors and other entities operating in the residential market.

The article may as well have been written by Mamdom. You tell people to ignore wikipedia articles about Polish property, and then expect this sh1t to be believed.
milky   
14 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Dziennik Wschodni (Lublin newspaper) Front page article based on a new survey done by the statistics office. States that The county of Lublin will loose between 20 and 40 % of it population between now and 2035. I in 3 of the population will be over 60..Not a suitable climate for 'people' who think that property prices have bottomed out.
milky   
10 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Not so, a lot use equity from overseas sales (USA) or savings (more tha most countries).

Money earned in the West. I know people who got mortgages in Poland while woking in London and Dublin.

There are 700K CHF mortages in total, thats a very small percentage

something like 70% of mortgages in 2008, so bought for well inflated prices.

True, but wages are going to rise in future.

amen to that

170k apartments were built in the boom.

after Donald promising to build more..eh..
milky   
10 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Milky, we are talking about "Poland", now, today.

Spoke, like a true salesman lol....
PERSPECTIVE...the enemy of Ponzi schemes.
Focusing on the here and and now, and ignoring what happens in other countries, is exactly what you should 'never' do; unless of course, you are one of those 'hypnotic salesmen' selling sand to the Arabs at an inflated price.
milky   
10 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

explain why these people are such idiots to be contemplating any projects at all when you and all the other experts "know" that there is a "crash" coming.

Just look at the 'Ghost estate in Ireland', idiots? I dont know. One fifth of the houses are unoccupied due to the madness.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331380/The-ghost-estates-exactly-Ireland-went-boom-bust.html
Poland may not be Ireland but capitalism is the religeon of both countries.
milky   
8 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Milky and yourself have both stated that property prices in Poland have "crashed" and are yet to fall further

I did not say crashed,I said they are 'stagnant' and going down.
milky   
8 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

That the answer you were looking for?

I'm happy with this answer.

Admin knows that "Polsky, Milky" etc are posts by the same people,

So, Admin, am I posting under different names????or am I the one person??