Foreigners can now buy houses in Poland

The problem is that the more you try and do so, the more publicity you give me. The amount of enquiries and web site visits always, always goes up when you do - which is awfully kind. In fact, it allows me to refine things further - so really, all you're doing is helping me :)

Let's be honest, if you want to keep up a 'sustained effort' - then you're welcome. I don't know how you can be bothered, but hey :)


It's comical, because it actually is. The website keeps getting hits, e-mails and phone calls keep coming in too - and people are actually using us. It's doing absolutely no harm - keep it up! I don't think I would've had such the same opportunity to promote the brand and what I do if it wasn't for you :)


Native English speakers feel much more comfortable with their own than Polish people - this much is a fact. Then we add in the fact that Polish owned businesses are notorious for extracting vast amounts of money from 'Westerners' who don't know any better, and the fact that most people would actually like to pay 'Polish' rates rather than 'expat' rates, and it all adds up to a rather sound business case.

But seeing as you're obviously so interested - first month in, and it's already proving viable. People want my services - and they're paying for them. Nuff said :)

This guy is an idiot and will go to any length to solicit business I wonder what idiots are hiring him i heard he stole 200k from his fellow countryman who entrusted him with it and now the poor man is in dipshit,I tried to deal with his company but they want outrageous prices and operate out of there rented flat with no proper set of office either.DO NOT HAND THEM ANY CASH ,the work you want never gets done and this guy is a cheat

The chinese will now take over Poland, believe me, the chinese have lots of money and will buy big..

ok, this is good enough to see now....

Now that is actually quite amusing and being banned from that site is quite insignificant so much so that I completely forgot about it.
The reason I was banned is that one of the moderators on there was hacking our site and so we called him out and we were both banned.

What utter, utter balls. You, living in Poznan, having been in Poland for one year and claiming to know Lodz "quite well", think that you can send someone in a short skirt for a day to get Polish people living in new developments to reveal how much they actually paid for their property? Do you mean to tell us that you don't have any contacts on the ground in such a major city as Lodz, and you'd have to send one of your little girlfriends in a short skirt from Poznan?!

You are naive in the extreme, and anyone even considering using your services is more naive still.

Hey, how many website hits did this message get for your website? LOL!!!

It would, though, be very handy to have a Polish version of the fantastic Mouseprice, where you can enter a UK postcode and see a list of addresses and prices actually paid with completion dates, free of charge. You can sign up for e-mail alerts too - mouseprice.com

Oh dear. If someone tried to hand me 200k in cash for something, I'd first of all ask them to deposit it in a bank and to deal with a lawyer, not me. I'd also be incredibly suspicious of why someone would hand 200k in cash to a small business that mainly deals with saving people time - it's pretty obvious that the cash would be dirty :)

And you didn't try to deal with us at all, so quiet little man - get back into your failing Indian restaurant and leave us alone! :)

Hey, Delphi, it's midday - time to go prepare some lessons (if you can be bothered...)

No but Poles can come to England for free and send their little 'bachorzy' to our state schools for free from day one as well as making use of our free state medical care!

Brits can go to Poland, send their children to state schools for free and use the NFZ too from day one... :)

That is very, very true.

Youd think he have more sense than try to promote a business on a forum where people know him and his tactics. Watch out he'll send round the girl with the mini skirt.... lol.

It's working nicely, so there's plenty of sense :)

I dont think so, if that was the case you wouldnt be begging for business in Lodz. On the Lodz issue how much would you charge for a market analysis, you know this one day extravaganza with the girl in the mini skirt carrying out a door to door investigation?

delphiandomine
how on earth do you have time for your own business when you are so busy researching and slagging off everyone else's business plans?

Makes sense to promote the name virtually anywhere I can, doesn't it? As I say - things are going fine and the business is viable :)


Depends what the client wants, doesn't it? There's so many intangible factors that you can't magic a price up out of thin air. But as a rough guide, we try and go on charging the cost of travelling (receipts/etc provided - no sharp practices here!) combined with a fair hourly rate for the person doing the investigating - and this is all agreed in advance so there's no surprises. The more they pay, the higher quality the person will be - it's as simple as that - and it's entirely up to them.


I don't mix personal and business time? :)

If you have nothing better to do, perhaps. You keep mentioning how many enquiries you recieve i would have thought your time would be better used thinking up better ideas to manage the business/enquiries you currently have.


Personally i would rather have an independant surveyor carry out an inspection on the property and surrounding area's, leave it for the professionals. "Higher quality person", as in looks, shorter skirt etc..

I'm very naive to consider using his services am I? You don't know exactly what I'm looking for or what he is offering.

But... I should take your advice? I have never met you but I should take your advice rather than meet this person myself?

I'm not naive and I will make my own decision about who i speak to.

My company offers about the same service but in a different region and we also provide language lessons. We don't have office space anymore as it hardly ever got used. Everybody wanted us to come to them. I think these are reasonable combinations of business activities and they do not detract from each other as some here have suggested.

I am also not Polish (but my Polish is on a good enough level to, for ex, take my client to the bank and open an account, arrange to lease a vehicle, those types of things) and I don't find that it is a problem in this business. Many of my clients feel good knowing that I have been through the same process that they have and can live here happily and that Poland is a "normal" country. Some of my clients feel that it is a green light to bad mouth Polish people which is not cool, but I try to nip that in the bud.

I've rented a flat, bought a flat, bought a house, got married, leased a car, sold a car, bought a car, taken a mortgage, been to court, been to hospital, been attacked on the street, and much, much more here in Poland and for those reasons I feel that I can offer valuable advice to my clients. It was said that the gentleman above has not lived in Poland long enough to give such advice, but he can always hire someone who can assist in areas he is lacking.

I do not have a mini-skirt, however ;)

Good luck!

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I could lend you one....

Hmmm, if you think it would improve my business...

Not if i am wearing it...!

There has been much confusion regarding the situation from May 1st 2004. In fact it was possible prior to May 1st 2009 for a citizen of the European Union to legally buy land and or a house in Poland without permission from the ministry of the Interior. Many Notaries were giving out very bad advice. The farm land situation is much more complex and will still be causing problems after the moratorium an buying farmland and woodland ceases even for EU citizens who are not Polish. If your family has any connection at all with Poland,Grandfather,whatever apply for a Polish passport, this removes most of the problems now and in the future and its very quick and easy to do. stephen.morgan@wp.pl, drop me a line, my firm specialises in this kind of work and an initial appraisal is very cheap

Is this definitely correct for EU people?

Because here it says a permit's needed, and it doesn't seem to say for non-EU.
paiz.gov.pl/polish_law/purchase_of_real_estate_in_poland

I'm not buying immediately, but if prices become more realistic, I'd be tempted to have a house for myself here in Wroc. In areas such as Psie Pole, prices aren't too far from what I'd call fair considering their size and land. I'd not be buying to sell it on, but don't want to overpay in case things go wrong and I need to sell up and go back to the UK and not take a painful hit on the price I paid.

From 2009 there are, I think, three restrictions on EU citizens (note that 2004-2009 we could buy flats, but not houses). Now we can buy houses but not (a) agrc land, (b) forest and (c) land within a certain distance of the border. Certainly my entitlement to buy was discussed with our lawyer and she said I was OK so long as we avoided those three categories

Thank you, John. That's a bit of good news, much appreciated.