ma.re.blu blog
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At the end of October, Eraclea Mare changes face. The roller shutters come down one after another, the car parks in the pine forest empty out and the houses stay shut until spring. For a good five months the home is left on its own: a window that…
Sooner or later two people ask me the same question, from opposite sides of the table. The first has owned a seaside home for many years and would like some cash, but does not want to give up their summers. The second has capital to invest and is…
Every spring, in my office in Eraclea Mare, the same scene plays out. An owner comes in with two flats let out to holidaymakers, smiles and tells me: “Well, I pay the 21% flat tax on both of them anyway.” Then I explain that the 26% rate on…
When owners decide to sell their seaside home, another question comes up even before the price: “Do I give one agency exclusivity, or let every agency in the area offer the house?” They almost always ask me in a low voice, as if it were rude to ask.
The first question almost always comes before anyone has seen a property: “How much will the bank lend us?” I hear it from families who walk into the agency at the end of the summer, with photos of the pine forest still on their phones and a mortgage…
The question almost always comes on the first day, when I hand over the keys to a holiday home: “And for fish, where do we go?” My answer starts with the seafood places in Eraclea Mare itself, even when no famous guide mentions them. In this…
Every autumn, when the season ends, the same question reaches our agency: how did the market do this year? Whoever asks has usually read two opposite headlines already. One says seaside homes are flying, the other that the market has ground to a halt. Both are…
Every spring someone walks into our agency dreaming of a seaside home that pays its way. They often bring the same line with them: “I was told that with a flat in the pine forest the rent covers the mortgage.” It is almost never as true as it…
