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.


Saturday, November 22, 2008

British Television

I am pleased to announce that I can now recommend a TV engineer who can get British TV channels to Bulgaria. These include, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Premier (German) Movies and many many more channels.
Last evening we sat and watched Emmerdale, I know it's wrong, but it had to be done.
So if your longing for those lost programmes and fed up with sub titles on ITV Partners or the like, let me know and I will put you in touch.
There is only one issue, you must be able to get the internet at your house.
Cost, as of today, instalation to include the dish, receiver and set up, is 600 Lev. Then there is a monthly premium of 40 Lev, but this does give you a vast range of channels to choose from.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Dental Care

Last Tuesday Sally chipped a tooth, so the next day we made an appointment to see a dentist on Friday. The assistant, Petia, speaks quite good english, but the dentist Villi, does not. However there was no need to worry.
Petia is Veselina's boyfriend's mother, anyone who knows anything about me and my work should know by now how closely I work with Veselina. This is just another example of how she helps us in many ways.
Sally was well cared for, she had to go to the dental hospital for x-rays which cost us £4!!!
Today was a filling day, more expense, £7 including the pain killer!!
Next week Sally has to have a filling followed by a crown, this is going to cost another £65.
I spoke to my father who has just had a check up and a small filling in the UK, it cost him £72. Rip Off Britian.
So if anyone has any need for a good dentist please let me know, we know a very good one.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Company Set Up

Well this week has been a good week in Bulgaria. I have had some new clients over looking to buy a property ready to start a new life away from the "rat race". Nik and Joanna along with young Dan were looking for a property to renovate and place their style on it.
As your aware if you have read my blog, it is necessary to open a company with a company bank account to show you have funds to run a company. During the summer it was taking around 40 days to open a company and have it registered, then around September it was approx. 14 days.
This week, thanks to the lawyer I use, Mr. Kiril Anev, we managed to open a company in ONE day! This is truly amazing, and I thank Kiril for his help.
This means that we can close the deal and get the new title deeds to the property selected within a week.
Compare this to the way deals are done in the UK and let me know if you agree that this is a much simpler method of buying property.

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