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.


Sunday, July 27, 2008

Orphange

Here in Bulgaria there are several orphanges which find it hard to find clothing for the children. Last xmas a couple of my friends and ex-collegue at Remax, Vesalina and Tania set up a fund raising project to try to get enough parcels of toys or clothing so that on xmas morning every child in one orphange would have at least one present to open. This was a great success.
My wife Sally, has continued to save old clothes and has made new blankets etc ready for this year. She has help from her mother and sister in law (Jean) who both regularly send over parcels in the post.
If there is anyone else who would like to help us in this effort, please feel free to email me and ask for our address, or if anyone is coming over, goods can be brought in and stored with us until xmas.
Clothes should be for ages 1 month to 4 years old, we see this as a small way to put something back into the local community.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Why do agents show a lot of properties?

I have been told several times by clients that they have tried to deal with other agents, but have been driven around all over the place only to find that most of the properties are unsuitable to their requirements. Why is this?
Well, there are two reasons why this can happen. Firstly, they are poorly trained or inexperianced and are asking the wrong questions when qualifying clients, or if the client does tell them what is required they do not listen. Secondly, most agencies here charge for viewing trips, this is understandable as most of the properties are spread far and wide, but this charge not only covers the fuel, it also helps to cover some salary expenses! So if your being charged 40 Euro (approx. 80 Lev) per day, the fuel is around 10 Euro (approx. 20 Lev) you can now see why if you do not buy from these people they still get a wage.
I do not charge for viewing trips! The reason is that if I qualify your needs correctly, we should only be looking at around 5 or 6 properties, unless you want to see more of course. Then we can take time to look at other things like maybe kitchens and heating etc.
In the UK most agents viewing to sales ratio is around 22-1 currently, so people view 22 properties before choosing one, here the figure is much the same I guess. But I do not want to waste your time, so I will only show you what is relevent.
I will also negotiate the purchase for you, I should be able to save at least my sevice fee, as I am very experienced at this practice and more so than most agents here, I feel you can only benefit from my service. If anyone needs to talk to any recent clients of mine I am more than willing to pass on contact details so you can talk directly to them.
I hope this answers the question and some others too.

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