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bolek   
1 May 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

he is talking about pure investment. Any price will be "too much" for him as he wants to maximise his profits when he sells on. Are you and milky looking to buy a house or apartment with sitting tenants?

Avalon, I respect your post and don't doubt that a lot you say is close to the mark, however I just feel you tend to speak for the property developers and not see the flight of the average home buyer. Real Estate is a type of ponzi scheme in the sense that if all homes in Poland went on the market today, the homes would be worth nothing. (like in the US) The current property prices in Poland more so in the big cities are controlled by Real Estate Agents and property developers, there has to be a readjustment, otherwise the vast majority of poles will be out of reach of ever securing a property. Poland will never be a rich country, not because it is not a highly intelligent nation (which it is) but because it has nothing to sell to the world, like mineral resources, it is only a feeder. It is interesting to note that since the recession the value of the zlote to the US dollar has gone down, which could indicate that less dollars coming in are pushing the value of the dollar up, also the price of the dollar was just over 2 zlote a couple of years ago and is now worth just under 3 zlote, which indicates that prices of real estate in dollar value has gone down some 30%.

Our correspondent Majatek has hit the nail on the head with his comments, he tells as he sees.
bolek   
30 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

Now the owners, after spending some time on the internet looking at prices in other countries, believe that they are property owning millionaires!

Too true, that is why people are not investing in Polish Real Estate.... it is a great paradox that people living in the west shake there heads and say why bother dealing with such nonsense and ask the question why is real estate more expensive than in my country.
bolek   
29 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

Just stating the facts as they are reported.

Wasn't having a go, but making a point that overseas business interest in Poland doesn't always help the average Pole. Most famous brand Polish companies as indeed breweries are in the hands of foreigners, has this helped the plight of the average Pole, by looking at how much prices have gone up in comparison to income,obviously not.
bolek   
28 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

Please excuse the rambling.

Please keep it up, a lot of truth in what you say, you forgot to mention the fact that you need your place as secure as Fort Knox to protect yourself from the local disparates!

If you read the above artical and recall my posts, warning that the banks witholding funds from developers would cause a shortage, which, will push prices back up

Who is going to buy these properties, I don't think the local population, are you suggesting that the Brits will come on mass and start buying Polish properties.
bolek   
26 Apr 2010
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

The prices are as much as 50 % below the asking prices and the bubble property holders are in denial and waiting for a miracle return of growth, so they are holding back in a big game of bluff. This link describes the bubble in the USA but its the same scam as Europe.

Yes that is true, to understand the property market in Poland is to understand the Polish mentality, ie you tell a pole that his property is worth so and so (of course more) he will believe you, if you tell him it has crashed you will be his worse enemy. The fact remains that properties in central warsaw and Krakow will increase, properties in the outer regions will decrease. Unfortunately this forum has been hijacked by speculators in the property and real estate market who have given a false and misleading assessment of what is happening in real estate in Poland. Fortunately less and less of these cowboys are responding as they have packed their bags and gone home.
bolek   
27 Mar 2010
Law / My Great GrandMother was born in Poland sometime before 1915 - any chance for Polish citizenship? [37]

by the time you have finished with all the paperwork, you'd qualify for citizenship from having lived here so long.

Funny but true, you need a lot of paper work, and be given the run around, In Aus you can renew your passport over the internet and take photo's to a post office (takes about a minute) to renew a Polish passport you are given the third degree and face problem after problem. (nothing new when dealing with the Polish government)
bolek   
15 Mar 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

what about you?

Sorry for the delay, missed out by a whiska, Its amazed me how trustworthy insurance companies are, they took claims over the phone and told customers to get the damage fixed and send them the bill, couldn't imagine that happening in Poland.

Appropriate comment to make re somebody coming to Australia, I was watching the 7.30 report on the ABC and they had a segment of the oil find near Perth, they say the new resources boom with create 400,000 new jobs and it is predicted that they will be short 150,000 workers. This will bring in 60 billion dollars per year!

This brings me to ask a question as to why more Poles are not coming here to enjoy the good life, the resources here will ensure this great country will be rich for a long long time, It is also predicted that the Aus dollar will equal that of the US dollar mid year.

Why would somebody bother going to GB or Ireland? Lets face it the weather here is such that there are more perfect days than good days.
bolek   
11 Mar 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

have you been here your whole life?

yes, although I know Poland like the back of my hand, I hope you weren't flooded out in the last few days or you computor wasn't infected if you were with bigpond, I suppose with these dramas it makes life more interesting. I wonder if you agree with most poles living in this great land, that it is a land of milk and honey, or for people a bit younger a land of wine, women and song or for the more cultured, a land of fine food, good wine and a great place to live. hmmm Poland not is bad also except for the cold weather.
bolek   
3 Mar 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

maybe a few...but a lot of vaccines these days.

when was the last time you come across a deadly spider? Can I suggest Never.

i wear a warm jacket and gloves during winter at night...but im soft.

Central Melbourne, Winter spans about 4 months, you might have a chilly morning but barley charlie King Sobieski are you a man or a mouse!!.. lol.. In actual fact I don't own a overcoat, gloves or winter boots, We might have a cold spell of zero temperature, but nothing like the minus 20 plus in Poland. I agree if you live in the mountain country it can get pretty cold, it brings me to the point that you could in one day spend time swimming in the beach and the rest of the time skiing in the snow.
bolek   
3 Mar 2010
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

That probably sums it up, they need to relax more and not think everyone is out to rip them off. Theres more to life than hitting the bottle and then spend the rest of the time complaining.
bolek   
2 Mar 2010
Love / They seem nice, but could Polish girls be "gold diggers"? [196]

Most gold-diggers have a very low IQ

Thats just not true, Gold diggers come in all shape and sizes, as a matter of interest the greatest gold digger was the following person, have you heard of Johnson and Johnson, you have have used its baby powder when a you were young, this may surprise you, hmmm,

Piasecka Johnson was born in Poland. Her father was a farmer.[1][2] She graduated from Wroclaw University with a M.A. in Art History. She left Poland in 1968, with just $100.[3]

Piasecka Johnson was hired as a cook hired by Esther Underwood Johnson, then wife of John Seward Johnson I. Her cooking was terrible though, so she switched jobs with the Johnson's chambermaid.[4][5]
bolek   
27 Feb 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

I think a lot of people have been brainwashed by the song "There was red back on the toilet seat" etc by Slim Dusty.. lets face it how many people have been killed by spider or snake bites??

If you live in the mountain areas it can get in the minus degrees, Its nothing like Poland, I've never worn a overcoat or gloves.
bolek   
26 Feb 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

do you live in melbourne bolek?

yes, can honestly say I've never been worried about spiders and snakes, only time I've seen a snake was at the zoo, lets be honest about it Melbourne is the sports capital of the

world ie, cricket, tennis, golf, motor car and motorcycle racing, surfing etc, Australia is a big big country, Best place for wine lovers.
Like I say people who haven't been to this great land, just don't know.
The thing about living in Europe is that your living in a fridge for 6 months of the year.
bolek   
26 Feb 2010
Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

I suppose troll appear in various forms, Any person who knocks Australia is either hard to please or hasn't been there, Melbourne is No 3 on the list of the most livable cities in the world (where did Warsaw come in as?) Warm weather, fine food and a great way of life with plenty to do, it must beat being indoors for 6 months of the year.

Talk of snakes and spiders etc was a ploy used by the communists to scare people to moving elsewhere. Hoon drivers are everywhere including Poland.
bolek   
22 Feb 2010
Love / They seem nice, but could Polish girls be "gold diggers"? [196]

Let the buyer beware or in the case of picking up a foreign girl, you get for what you pay for, the simply reality is that a attractive girl is not going to fall over backwards because the prince in her life comes from the west, no no its the money, I might add that Russian girls are the worse for that, they are ruthless, after marriage is give, give and give then pay, pay and pay.
bolek   
18 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

no need for this type of language on this forum, what are you trying to say? The housing/real estate market is what people are prepared to pay for a property, have you got actual figures of what prices have been paid for homes/apartments, not the advertised price?
bolek   
15 Feb 2010
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

3. I am tired of hearing from Poles how every important event throughout human history was because of a Pole. You would think they invented the Earth as much as they take credit for things.

Poles have a habit of gilding the lily, however there have been great Poles who have done great things. I might add that Americans love to idolise there own.
bolek   
15 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

Thanks for your input SeanBM, I suppose you can never trust what newspapers tell us nor can you trust how they get their information, I suppose we can gleam from the article is that some Poles are not able to enter the Real Estate market as it is priced beyond their means, this is happening everywhere not only in Poland.

I personally think that Poles are underpaid and that Homes and Apartments are overpriced.
Something will have to give, I don't believe Poles will be taking in more income in the foreseeable future, it could be less with Unemployment on the increase.
bolek   
13 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

As many as twenty percent of Poles who were planning to buy an apartment in 2009 abandoned the idea, shows a report by Gfk Polonia and Nowy Adres.

Almost 40 percent of potential buyers resigned from buying an apartment last year because of high prices, even though real estate prices dropped slightly during the economic crisis.

Twenty-three percent of people mentioned high interest rates of mortgage loans as an obstacle to purchase their own apartment, 19 percent did not buy because they were refused a mortgage and 14 percent because they were afraid of losing a job and not being able to pay back a loan.

"Apartments in Poland are still too expensive and most Poles cannot afford them," says Katarzyna Cyprynowska from Nowy Adres, a real estate market analysis firm which co-wrote the report based on a survey conducted among 1,500 Poles. (mg/mmj)

I suppose 80% are ready to purchase! come on the Property rise!
bolek   
12 Feb 2010
Life / Warsaw - what's there to love? Semi-livable city? [42]

[Moved from]: Warsaw is Semi Liveable.

Warsaw is 'semi-liveable' says ranking

11.02.2010 14:37

Warsaw places in the middle of a ranking of the world's most livable cities, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

With a score of 78 percent, Poland's capital is placed 71st in the global livability survey of 140 cities.

Each of the cities was assigned a score for over 30 factors across five broad categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Warsaw got the lowest rating in the health care and education categories.

But as the future co-host to the European Football Championship (alongside Ukraine), Warsaw scored relatively well in areas important to visitors to the event, with stability, infrastructure, and culture and the environment all scoring 80 percent or more. Kiev lies 91st in the ranking, the EIU release says.

In terms of tourist attractions, Warsaw is behind Budapest (regarded as the most attractive city in Central Europe) as well as Prague, Bratislava, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Vancouver continues to top the ranking with a score of 98 percent, followed by Vienna and Melbourne

.....It is interesting to note that Warsaw is so low on the list, I'm sure some forum members would disagree?
bolek   
16 Dec 2009
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

very true, the mentality of thats is my entitlement is a national disease, poles look at what you have and then access if it is your speaking to you!

Ripping off the system is a national pastime.
bolek   
16 Nov 2009
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

3- Finally, the sheer number of Poles entering the Irish state.

Rejoice and be glad, Ireland may one day be a colony of Poland.
bolek   
1 Apr 2009
Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]

there are a lot of rogue builders out there pay your 50% upfront, next you see the town drunks leaning on shovels a week later never to be seen again

Best not seeing them again, than seeing them build your dream house in a drunken state, I have never seen sober workers on a building site.
bolek   
16 Mar 2009
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

In business Poles tend to think about how much they can make today. And give very little though to tomorrow

I agree, you probally need to understand that the average Pole is still under the influence of the communist past, poles love to big note and put others down because they have a few more zlotes, I think you know what I mean
bolek   
16 Mar 2009
Real Estate / House prices in Poland to drop more or rise again? [228]

The Poles are a greedy self-serving bunch bolek, you know that already

Not a touch on those involved in the current economic crisis, Yes Poles are very stubborn and have no honor when involved in a business agreement, they have probably learnt there bad habits from the western business friends.

Undoubtedly they will have to reassess there attitudes in the future to get on.

I note that in the US, not related to this point is the 5.5 million Americans are more than 1 month behind there morgage payments, will this be the same in Poland.