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, January 31, 2010

Right Hand Drive Cars

If you bring a RHD car to Bulgaria you are required to change the headlamps as they shine to the wrong side of the road.
I have a Vauxhall Vectra which I brought over. I have been looking for new headlamos and they are £320 plus postage, a friend of mine suggested that I look on the German ebay site. Another friend came over for a flying visit, he made the comment that he has an old BMW that has a switch under the bonnet that changes the direction of the beam.
I decided to get my car manual out to see if there was anything in there. I was very pleased to see that there is a switch behind the headlamps that does indeed change the beams.
So I am very happy to report that I do not require new headlamps, also my advice to anyone else is, before buying new ones check your car handbook first!

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Monday, January 18, 2010

BBC & ITV Channels

I now have the information everyone has been waiting for....FREE British TV.................
All you have to do is go to www.onlinetvr.com and download the information to your computor and away you go.
It is possible to connect your PC/laptop to the TV and watch the channels you remember from the UK for FREE!
More channels are being added all the time, so long as you can get the internet you can get these channels.
Good luck.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Yearly Accounts

It is coming to that time of year again where we have to submit our companies yearly accounts. Now in the past a lot of people have thought, and been told incorrectly, that if they do not live in Bulgaria they do not need to submit these accounts! WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As forigieners owning property in Bulgaria we must have a company, unless it is an apartment. This means that you MUST do your accounts. The paperwork is long and complicated and it must be filed by a registered accountant. Cost's vary, but the one I use and recommend charged 150 Euros last year, she tells me that it should be similar this year.
If required I can get your accounts done for you, you do not even need to go to the accountants office, we can get it done, all you need to do is sign off the paperwork, unless Vessie or I have power of atorney, if we do then we can sign off the accounts for you, all you need to do is pay the money.
If you do not do this, you will be liable for a fine of approx. 2000 Lev, for the first year, if you continue to not submit accounts, then the fine gets much greater the more years that go by.
Also, please remember to get your new "Vinetta", this is like a raod tax, last year it was 67 Lev, this year the Bulgarians have not printed them yet, so you have until the end of January to buy new ones. They are avalible from the Post Office or some petrol stations.
Hopefully you will have thought of these things already, but there is no harm in reminding you all.

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