because any idiot can put something there and edit it.

learn

what data? wikipedia? where is the data?

Could you provide a link to this information? To "Save" the Spanish economy?, Spain has only been reported as having problems in the past year? How many people, have been buy property, off-plan, in Spain recently? I was not even aware that they were carrying on building. The reason Spains banks are in trouble is because of the money they lent to developers.

osting and not knowing the facts seems to be one of your little foibles. Show me one post that I have made where I have lied, or, STFU and stop making yourself look foolish.

Please don't go attacking McDonalds now, is nothing sacred. Supersize me, one of top misleading films everywhere. It isn't the healthiest food, but it really isn't that bad (with the salad instead of the fries).

you shouldn't listen to what a dr says because they work in the market?

If prices did fall by any significant level, there is an enormous amount of money on the sidelines waiting to take advantage of this situation.

Jews can be oversensitive at times.

But Sue Adams, from the training centre, defended the choice on the basis that the word meant "an invincible leader" in Polish.

most visiting Brits

Naming a director who can't even write a formal letter??

Is that a serious figure Harry? If so, then I am astonished any flat could be had in Greenwich for that amount. What's the catch?

the generation now in their 50's have more or less screwed up the people in their late 20's nowadays.

A little piece of advice: don't comment on something you know nothing about. The people I mentioned are a hardworking couple who don't have holidays.

I had a chat with a depressed friend today. She and her husband took out a 25-year, 195K mortgage on a flat a year ago. They both work, and pay over a thousand a month to the bank. After their first year they've reduced their capital repayment by....100 PLN. Poor buggers.

Took me five years (and then some years with a mortgage, which is now paid off).

Is that why property is still selling? or are you saying that only millionaires are buying houses and apartments?

I bought a property less than 3 years after starting to work full time. Not difficult, provided you're willing to work hard to get it. I'm not a millionaire, sadly.

Why should you be able to buy a property when you leave school? Surely you should have to work and earn money first?

Is the Olympics actually pushing up the prices?

But one can get a one-bedroom flat in Greenwich for £63,000.

Going to be very interesting to see how the new housing benefit cap affects property prices in London.

Only because the rents are paid by the government.

Only because the average is dragged so far down by the inner-city sink estate toilets where packs of feral children roam.

So in other words, people living in tourist destinations earning service industry wages can't afford to buy a property. And what is new there?

Eight years of saving (earnings) to buy an apartment in Warsaw

Home Broker has compared apartment prices in various Polish cities with the incomes of their residents. The results are not too optimistic, especially for those who live in Sopot. The average citizen of this popular tourist destination earns nearly zł.2,800 per month. Such a person would need to save for 11.6 years before he or she could afford a two-room apartment at an average cost of zł.390,000, Rzeczpospolita reported, citing Home Broker's survey.

And this means saving every single złoty you earn. It gets slightly better in Warsaw where the average net salary is about zł.3,300 and the average cost of a two-room apartment is less than zł.320,000. Eight years of saving and you can have it.

Katowice turned out to be the clear winner of the ranking. Local residents, with their average income at zł.3,200 per month, would need to save for fewer than four years since a two-room apartment there can be bought for as little as zł.144,000.

Would you move to Poland in 2012 for one year to see if life has a different meaning if you were in my place?

When it will be open again?

Warsaw nabs no. 2 spot in Europe for property investment attractiveness

Warsaw is the second-most attractive city in Europe in the eyes of international real estate investors, according to the "Real Estate Investor Intentions" survey that CBRE announced at the MIPIM 2012 property fair in Cannes, France, last week.

The Polish capital (chosen by 12 percent of the investors polled) ranked only lower than London (37 percent) and higher than cities including Paris (nine percent), Munich (eight percent) and Berlin (seven percent).

According to Colin Waddell, managing director of CBRE in Poland, Warsaw has benefited from the resilience of the Polish economy.

"The position of Warsaw among the most desired property investment destinations in Europe reflects Poland's well-deserved perception of a market with strong underlying fundamentals, able to weather global and European economic volatility," Mr Waddell said in a statement.

"The number-two score of the Polish capital, right after London and before Paris, Munich and Berlin, presents an optimistic outlook for developers and investors engaged in the Polish market, as well as for those intending to make an entry," he added.

In terms of countries and entire regions, the UK is the most attractive real estate market for investment in Europe (31 percent of respondents), followed by Germany (27 percent) and Central and Eastern Europe (19 percent), the CBRE study said.

You did what was right for you at the time.

The point is that Peter used the surplus cash you say you'd have from renting as opposed to buying with a 100% mortgage (i.e. 1000zl per month) to calculate that after 30 years one would have 1.175 million zloty. But if one buys, one spend the same amount every month and ends up with a property worth (using a conservative growth rate) of 1.553 million zloty.

I always thought that was an urban myth.

exactly what? so paying rent for 15 years and having nothing to show for it is better than having a mortgage?