Welcome to my site.
Please let me introduce myself, my name is Mark Wright and for more than eight years now I have been in the real estate business, mainly within the UK, where I became an office manager with a leading estate agency group. After moving to Bookavets near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in March 2007 I did not work for several months, then for 10 months I worked for one of the largest real estate agencies in Veliko Tarnovo, helping train the English speaking Bulgarian agents, who deal with the International clients.
I am now working independantly locating properties for buyers, who are looking to relocate around Veliko Tarnovo, Resen, Hotnitsa areas. Working on their behalf, I can access far more properties and select only ones suitable to my clients thus cutting down time spent looking at non suitable abodes.
I live here with my wife Sally, and son Shane, (our daughter Teri, lives in Swindon Wiltshire.) in a large village called Resen, just north of Veliko Tarnovo. We enjoy a stress free lifestyle that we could only imagine whilst living in the UK., long hot sunny summers and cold snowy winters.
There are quite a few Brit’s within a few kilometers of us, but mostly we talk to our Bulgarian neighbours, slowly, as we do not speak fluent Bulgarian yet! The local people are very friendly and will often pass you small gifts like fruit and Rakia (local home made whiskey) We for our part return their friendship with home made cakes etc.
Our British friends are great, we meet up quite often to help each other with new products found, or general information we have gathered. Sometimes just for a coffee or beer!
I have found that many British come here looking to buy property, but do not know where to start. I have a few key questions that I like to ask, this gives me a real insight to what they are looking to achieve. As I have been through the process and now know the pitfalls, hopefully I can save others the heartache and stress of searching for the right property.
I can help with all the details required in buying property here, from setting up bank accounts to opening your company, this is required when you buy a house with land. I can source any kind, from land/apartment/house/office even hotels.
Let me know how I can help you.
If you have any questions about my service I can provide you with names and email address's of previous clients who would be happy to tell you more about me and the level of service provided.
Please read all the "post's" on my blog, at the bottom of each page you can click a button for "older post's" this just means "go to the next page". You should find a lot of useful information contained here. If you feel the need for anything else please let me know and I will be happy to oblige.
This week has been eventful, to say the least. A friend of mine has a property that he is looking to sell and asked me to take a look, we arrived in this small village around 15 kilometres from VT.After entering the garden, I saw this lovely stone barn, it would make a fantastic development, too many ideas for it! However the floor level inside the barn is apporox. a metre lower that the ground level outside, so there are wooden stairs down, I proceeded to step down and the second step collapsed beneath me, I fell through the stairs and landed on my side on the stair string. I was and am still, in a lot of pain.
I (as a man) decided not to go to the hospital, it'll be alright I thought. Yesterday I was hurting so much I thought, best go to the hospital now then. The hospital looked like something left over from the second world war! old equipment, old buildings etc. but the staff were very helpful and I was een within minutes. The outcome? Well badly bruised, nothing broken, take it easy, as if I have a choice int he matter!
Moral of this story, do as we did, when you leave the UK, make sure you have good travel insurance for accidents, if your coming here to live bring your E111 cards.
