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Hi Sue,

How are you? It’s really cold here – first day back at work there was a frost on the car & Dad was not exactly impressed having to get up at 2am – he was more than a little chilly!

Thank you for this information. I will look at it in more detail at some point but I’m just trying to concentrate on dealing with the purchase at the moment other wise I think that my head will explode! Things are going smoothly with the Bank of Cyprus despite the rather bumpy start. The valuation has been done, they have all the information from me they need to start the approval process and all that there is left to do is write to my mortgage lender here to get a reference which hopefully should be straight forward. Fingers crossed all will be well for 16th January!

I don’t think that any of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for your thorough research, honesty, negotiating skills and calming influence when things were getting a little manic. What was most impressive was the fact that you totally lived up to the information on the Living-Cyprus website – there was no pressure from you whatsoever to buy and you had done all of the hard work before we met so that there was no research needed from me. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you really are a star!!!

I’ll keep you posted and will let you know when I’ll be back in Cyprus so that we can have a catch up.

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Take care.

Linda

We finally met !!!

Dear Chris

I am e mailing you to say that it was my husband & I that came to your office on Thursday of last week, where we were to meet with Brigitta. I did not realise that it was your office that had contacted us during our stay at the Tasiana Star Apartments

We thought the contact came through another person we had met in Cyprus. We would like to thank you for your prompt response to our visit and would like to say how very professionally Brigitta conducts herself on your behalf. She was very helpful and we look forward to seeing you on our next visit when we will go to Pachna and inspect how the building is coming along.

Kind Regards

David and Marian, knew exactly what they wanted…

DEAR MR.CHRIS CALOGIROU,

WE ARE WRITING TO THANKYOU AND YOUR TEAM ,FOR ALL THE HELP AND INFORMATION IN OUR TRIP TO CYPRUS.AS A RESULT OF WHICH WE HAVE BOUGHT A VILLAS AT PEYA PANARAMA.

YOUR REPRESENTATIVE SUSAN WAS BRILLIANT.

HER WELL ORGANISED ITINERARY,FRIENDLY BUT BUSINESS LIKE MANNER AND GOOD RAPPORT WITH THE DEVELOPERS ENSURED WE MADE BEST USE OF OUR PRECIOUS  TIME.

THE SOLICITOR , ARETI   WAS VERY THOROUGH , ANOTHER GOOD CHOICE.

BEST REGARDS

DAVID + MARIAN

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Hi Sue,

How are you? It’s really cold here – first day back at work there was a frost on the car & Dad was not exactly impressed having to get up at 2am – he was more than a little chilly!

Thank you for this information. I will look at it in more detail at some point but I’m just trying to concentrate on dealing with the purchase at the moment other wise I think that my head will explode! Things are going smoothly with the Bank of Cyprus despite the rather bumpy start. The valuation has been done, they have all the information from me they need to start the approval process and all that there is left to do is write to my mortgage lender here to get a reference which hopefully should be straight forward. Fingers crossed all will be well for 16th January!

I don’t think that any of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for your thorough research, honesty, negotiating skills and calming influence when things were getting a little manic. What was most impressive was the fact that you totally lived up to the information on the Living-Cyprus website – there was no pressure from you whatsoever to buy and you had done all of the hard work before we met so that there was no research needed from me. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you really are a star!!!

I’ll keep you posted and will let you know when I’ll be back in Cyprus so that we can have a catch up.

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Take care.

Linda

Dear Mr Calogirou,

You may remember that I contacted you via your website to help us to find a property in Cyprus.

Last week, as I am sure you know, we met Susan Spencer from your company
and I therefore I am writing to thank you very much for putting us in
touch with her.

Susan was extremely helpful and knowledgeable.  She gave us the
confidence to buy and lots of advice, tips and information about Cyprus itself and
how to handle the sale. She introduced us to some very good developers and
also a good solicitor. She was always there to guide us through the process.

I hope to keep in touch with Sue from time to time, but in the meantime, could you please pass on both my husband's and my sincere thanks for her help and advice - and could I also say to you as her employer, how professionally she conducted herself.  We would therefore not hesitate to recommend Susan and your services to other people.

Once again, many thanks.

Dee and Gary

Hi Chris

Just wanted to say how much we enjoyed our trip to Cyprus, this visit really confirmed our decision to move to Cyprus permanently.

Although at this moment we are still not in a position to go ahead and purchase a property, we are hopeful that the sale of our house will be through within a month or so.

We greatly appreciate the time Susan spent with us showing us the various properties and land , we couldn`t have wished for anyone nicer to have spent the time with , she is a credit to your company , we cannot praise her enough and hopefully we will soon find "the dream ".

Once again thank you.
 
Doreen and Bob

Dear Chris

This is just to say thank you for the efforts that your company, and particularly Susan, made in order to find us a property in Cyprus.
 
We had a wonderful day and learned a lot from Susan.

The properties that she showed us were all within the parameters of what we required.  However, it is unfortunate that we were not able to choose one.

Hopefully, we will be around again and look at some more properties with you or your colleagues in the near future.

Thanks again

Kind regards
Fazli

Hello Chris,

we were delighted that Susan was so helpful and with her help and support we were able to identify a property, see the solicitor and open bank accounts. we look forward to working with Susan in the future.

Please pass our thanks to Susan

(names withheld on request)

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank your company and particularly Anna for all the
help I was given on my recent trip to Cyprus. As I arrived during a
bank holiday week I was really only left with 4 days to find and
arrange purchase of a property and seriously doubted that this could be
achieved.

However Anna spent many hours in Paphos with me on the first day and
had already made appointments with developers who showed me only the
type of property I was interested in, within my budget, therefore
avoiding wasting time. At the end of the day I had three suitable
properties, the only problem being choosing between them!

Anna also remained at the end of the phone for the rest of my stay and
provided invaluable liaison between myself and the developer I finally
decided to purchase from. Add to this introductions to banks for
financial advice and an introduction to an excellent, English speaking
solicitor, Areti Charidemou, and you have a complete property service.

THANK YOU!

Frances

Dear Chris

I would like to thank you and Brigitta for helping myself and my partner
find our new property in Cyprus last week.

Brigitta was very informative and friendly and made the day a pleasure,
showing us around properties which we may never have seen had we been left
on our own.
 
We have chosen a property which fitted all our requirements and look forward
to the completion date.
 
I never got to say a thank you to Brigitta due to a delay at the solicitors
but I would like to say once again thank you both very much.

Yours sincerely
Harriet

Jenny went on an Inspection Visit around Paphos:

Firstly we would like to thank Susan for spending last Wednesday with us both showing us around Paphos etc.
 
To give you our feedback, we were both very impressed with Susan. She is a good communicator and gave us a lot of information that we wanted. There was no hard sell, just a good day out . Her natural manner was refreshing and very positive. This is something that is hard to find nowadays.
 
I have just emailed to discuss further 2 apartments that we liked. I was hoping to get in touch with Susan again, for some advice on how to move forward.
 
We were not ready to open bank accounts and met with solicitors last week,  but we know that we need to. I was looking for some general guidance for legal advice.
 
Thanks again
 
Jenny

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Hi Domenica
 
Just like to thank you for the well organised and professional way you conducted the
viewing trip on the 21st June. I will have no hesitation on recommending you and your company to any friends that may be interested in purchasing property in the future. I wish you great success and hope that maybe we shall meet again some time in Cyprus.
 
Regards,
John and Georgina

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Dear Chris,

You are one of the most helpful estate agents we have found!! Thank you for the map website.

Please feel free to show this email to other customers!  We will definately come to see you in May 04, and nearer the time i will get directions for your offices.

Karen

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Dear Domenica

We couldn't have wished for better company and advice than we received from you. Thank you so much for all your help and I will certainly be in touch in the future.

Best wishes to you and your family

From Kate

Hello Chris

Just to say how nice it was to see you again - and to let you know that when we arrived back from Limassol, we found that the three air-conditioners had been installed in our apartment!

Thanks again for all your help.

Kind regards,

Kathy & Robert

Dear Domenica,

Now that we have arrived back in the UK, we felt it necessary to contact you to pass on our compliments to your company and in particular to Barbara Dodd your company's representative.

Barbara was extremely professional but more importantly had a friendly and approachable manner, furthermore she was wonderful to our two year old daughter. Barbara went beyond the call of duty to ensure that we were comfortable, relaxed and well informed and because of this we felt we could proceed with the initial steps in purchasing a property. 

After spending two days, we were left in no doubt whom we would prefer to deal with in purchasing a property in Cyprus. We would not hesitate in recommending your company, especially Barbara to our family, friends or people who would want to move to Cyprus. We hope you will pass on our appreciation to Barbara and thank her for all her help.

Best wishes

Kev, Nicola and Libby

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Just a brief note to thank you for your time, during my recent visit to Cyprus. I apologise that it has taken me so long to write

The properties that we saw have certainly given me much food for thought.

When I return to Cyprus we can resume our discussions.

Once again thank you for turning a business meeting into a pleasurable occasion.

Malcolm

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Hi Brigitta,
                   

I don’t know if you remember us, but you helped us to find a nice apartment in Oroklini.

I was wondering if when you have a spare few minutes, could you please let us know of any furniture stores, electrical stores, around Cyprus for us to furnish the apartment.

I know this must sound very cheeky of us to ask you, but we have been trying to find stores on the internet, but i must be useless, i just cant find any...

We are coming over in March.

Sorry to be asking this of you, We know that you are busy with other clients.

Any information would be very helpful.

We hope that you and your family are all fit and well.

Also when we have furnished the apartment you are all welcome to our house warming party.

Thanks. 
Teresa & Malcolm

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Dear Brigitta
 
Thank you for the courtesy extended to us during our visit to Paphos and your kind help in showing us the various properties for sale.  We very much appreciated your patience and help you gave to us (also lunch). 
 
As you know we are proceeding with the purchase of the above property and would especially like to thank you to our lawyer - she is a workaholic and I am very impressed with her personal meeting and explanation of the legal requirements.  Her contract certainly protects the client from any greedy developers, she has a clause in her contract which prevents the developers charging any more than 50% of the Title Deed fee should we wish to sell before the Title Deed has been issued.  She also puts a clause in the contract which charges the Developer £400 a month should the property be late. 
 
We shall be visiting Cyprus again in October 2004 to choose the internal fittings and furnishings and would like to meet with you for a drink perhaps at that time if you are free. 
I have written to our lawyer with several questions and one of them is, who would inspect the property at the various stages when payments are due to ensure that the required work has been completed?  Would this be a member of her staff, or perhaps could you do this on our behalf?
 
Please let Chris see this E Mail as I would like him to know that you are very good at your job without being pushy or trying to talk us into a sale.  Aggressive selling is not very good with English people as we always like time to talk it through and think through all implications and we were pleased that you worked in this way.
 
If there is anything you can think of that will help us with the purchase or recommendations for shops to look at for items we will require for the apartment, then we would appreciate it.
 
Kind regards
 
Margaret Abrahams

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Dear Chris,

I sent an email to Anna. I just wanted to thank you both for all the help you gave to me while in Cyprus over Christmas.

I have just emailed Areti to let her know that I have organised my finance in Hong Kong and I would like to go ahead with the apartment on the project in Oroklini so just wanted to let you both know.

I think Anna maybe on holiday now but please thank her for being so patient and helpful because the day we looked around most of the properties was absolutely freezing.
I think finding property on your own abroad is a bit daunting but she really made it very easy and both she and Areti were extremely helpful. I just hope everything else goes as smoothly.

I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year and maybe I'll get to meet you on my next visit.

Thank you again for such an excellent service,

Kind regards and best wishes,
Jo

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Chris,
 
Thank you so much for all the hard work Anna put in over the last week.

As you probably now know a town house has been found in Limassol, this was Ideal, (although above my price level).

The service Anna gave was first class and it was a pleasure being taken around by a competent and professional agent. ( Think this country's agents (UK) need to take a note from your book on service).

Many Thanks again,
Neil

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Dear Chris

I'm writing on behalf of on behalf of my sister Joy and myself to thank you for organising the property viewings in Larnaca and Limassol last week.

I would also like to say how brilliant we found Brigitta.  She could not have been more helpful and kind.  She went out of her way to help us, even meeting with us on her day off (sorry we didn't relaise when we 'phoned her!) to discuss some queries we had.

I am sure you will be aware that we were successful in our search - we found a lovely 3 bed, detached villa with pool in Oroklini.

Please let Brigitta know how grateful we are and we look forward to receiving the information she said she would send us shortly.

Regards

Pamela

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Hello  Brigitta, hope you remember us, Pat & Tony from England.  We bought our house in Oroklini through you.  The builder said he would let us know when you would be in Oroklini as he was in contact with you but I think he has been to England a few times so maybe the message didn't reach you.
 
Anyway we are well and truly settled in our new home and loving every minute here in Cyprus.  Thank you so much for introducing us to a lovely village and an honest and reliable builder.  If you are in Oroklini please do call in for coffee we would love to see you.
 
We have some friends who have visited us here and fell in love with the village and now they have asked us to try and find them a 2 bedroom place with a communal pool in Oroklini.  Their budget is maximum 60,000 sterling.  Perhaps you would let me know if you have anything on your books.  They would also be looking to work here as they are not as old as we are!
 
Hope to hear from you soon. 

Thanks Brigitta.
 
Pat & Tony

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Dear Chris

You are probably aware that we had a very successful trip to Cyprus and have put down a deposit on a house.

I would also like to say how helpful Brigitta was, in fact she more than helpful, she was friendly, knowledgable and knew all the right questions to ask. I would have no hesitation in recommending your company, particularly if all your staff are as good as Brigitta. Please pass on our sincere thanks and best wishes.
 
Kind regards
Patricia

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Hi Chris,

Finally I can put pen to paper (as it where) to thank you for all your assistance in our recent property purchase. We have been most impressed with the professionalism of your office and of Sharon Godier when she visited us on the Tuesday. We put a deposit down in cash on the Wednesday and then drove to Limassol to meet with Areti. We have since paid our first installment and are looking forward to completion in April 2005.

As I'm sure you know we have also taken up the services of Areti as our legal representative and have again been impressed.

I have also passed both yours and Areti's details to a colleague of mine in work without hesitation. She is also considering purchasing a property in Cyprus.

One other reason for this e-mail is to see if you have any contacts (or if you handle yourself) who rent out properties for short durations (2 weeks)? If you do I would be interested in seeing what is available for August this year.

Very best regards and Thanks again
 
Paul

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Dear Mr. Calogirou,
 
I would like to thank you for all your help during my visit to Cyprus earlier this month. In particular would you please pass on my special thanks to Brigita.

She was most helpful and extremely patient and managed to fit in a lot of visits to developers. Please apologise to her for my last minute changes to my criteria as it must have caused her a few problems rearranging her schedule for us.
 
Once again, many thanks, and I shall certainly recommend you to anyone I think may be in need of your services.
 
Kindest regards
 
Paul

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Dear Chris
 
Just wanted to send you a mail, to say thank you for Ms Anna’s time.
 
Anna was very helpful to myself and Mr Jackson during our visit to Larnaca, I am sure you have heard by now from Anna that we have agreed to purchase a 2 bed apartment at Mediterranean Sun Rise.
 
We are currently waiting for our lawyer to present to Mr Jackson and myself the completed contract for us to approve and proceed to the next stage.
 
We intend to make regular visits to Cyprus as and when it becomes necessary to do so, maybe we will have the chance to meet you on our next visit
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Paul

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Hello Chris,

Firstly let me say a very big THANK YOU, for all your help and information that made our path to purchasing a property in Cyprus go so smoothly.

We still can't believe that we have done it.

we will have no hesitation in recommending you to any of our friends and family in the future should they wish to purchase property in Cyprus.

And lastly but not least please pass on our grateful and heartfelt thanks to Susan for all the time, effort and courteousness that we were afforded by her. She truly is an excellent ambassador for you and your company and we can only add that we look forward to our next visit to Cyprus and contact with Susan.

Again our thanks and appreciation for all your assistance

our very best regards
Peter and Julie

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Chris,
 
A short note to thank you for arranging for Susan to pick us up and and to provide us with an excellent inspection of several properties.

Sue was superb and showed a great knowledge of the area. We liked all the properties shown to us and remain interested in Anavargos and Piyea. Both builders seem to have superb properties, we did particularly like one house which was very well located. My wife likes Anavaros and we both like Piyea.

We also spoke to Sue afterwards and asked if she could widen the scope to include Polis and Latchi which we viewed with another company on the Friday.

Many thanks
 
Regards
Roger

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Dear Chris Calogirou,

This is to thank you for allocating Brigitta to show us properties in and around the Limassol area. She is a hard working, professional, friendly lady. We are so impressed with her, she is a credit to your company. We made the mistake of only allocating her a short period of time, truly our fault. At all times we felt she was working on our behalf and more importantly we trusted her opinion and judgment.

On returning we have considered and debated, after the busy week we had, I felt as though I was drowning in properties and they where all starting to look the same if I could remember them! We have decided to put our house on the market here to sell, we hope this will put us in a better negotiating position. We have decided we are still open to an area from Limassol to Aiya Napa, to keep in contact with you and Brigitta as one of the two companies we have chosen, I can assure you we dropped quite a few!

I hope this is acceptable to you and I shall keep in touch.

Kindest Regards
Annette

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Chris,
 
Thank you very much for arranging for Anna to show us various properties.
 
We would like to say that Anna was excellent and incredibly patient. There is no doubt that we would have not have purchased if it was not for Anna's advice.

We would most certainly recommend your company to other prospective buyers.
 
Once again thank you and we will contact Anna to thank her directly.
 
 
Regards
 
Tony & Marie

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Dear Chris,
 
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the helpful advice you have given.  Also to let you know that Susan did a great job and we are over the moon and really looking forward to our new home in Cyprus.
 
Once settled in Cyprus we will be in contact again to see about commercial property.  In the first instance we have decided to find some work first and then see what happens from there.  Steve was actually offered a job yesterday so he obviously won’t have any problems.  I myself am thinking of starting up a consultancy business for assisting companies to gain quality accreditations, as even Areti when I mentioned this to her asked me how much I would charge so I think the interest is there.
 
Once again could you please pass on our thanks to Susan for a great job – it was her quick grasp of understanding what our needs are that found us such a beautiful property.
 
Regards.
 
Trish & Steve

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Hello Brigitta

We have booked to return to Cyprus on the 19th November.

We have made not other appointment with any other Estate Agents so we are
really hoping very mcuh you will be able to assist us in getting our Cyprus
home.

Having met you before, we feel very confident in your services, we therefore do not wish to go elsewhere.

We are flying into Paphos (not so easy to fly to Larnaka from where we live
in the winter).

And, unfortunately we will not know our accommodation until we arrive.

I have given this some thought. We get into Paphos in the afternoon of the
19th so we should hopefully be able to rent a car fairly quickly.  Because
if we are some way from Larnaka etc. It may be difficult for yourself.  If
you have any other ideas I would be open for suggestions.

We will of course ring you on arrival to confirm both our arrival and
accommodation.

We are both looking forward so much to returning to Cyprus -  with a deposit
ready!

Kindest Regards

Vivien

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Hello Chris
 
I thought you had long forgotten me.  Apologies for not replying sooner, but I have only just opened my yahoo mail box.  I get so little in there now, only junk, that I tend to forget about it.
 
Thanks you so much for our Christmas greetings.  We are now, of course, living in Emba, Cyprus and as they say "living the dream".  We were delighted and cannot thank you enough.
The house is just perfect for us, location just right, in fact cannot find anything to grumble about at all.  The builders were, and still are so helpful.
 
We have friends, who we met in Cyprus where we stayed before our house was completed and they are having a nightmare of a time.  Their house should have been finished last May, but they are still waiting for it and have been in rented accommodation since they came here in September.  They are now in the process of suing the developers for compensation.
 
Their situation only highlights how lucky we were to have had you on our side and to point us in the right direction.  We cannot thank you enough.
 
We had hoped to see Susan now we are here, but she seems to be very busy, so that we could thank you through her.  Perhaps she will drop in on us one day when she is in this area, with a minute or two to spare.
 
My very best regards to you and your family
 
Graham Ward

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My story started a year ago when I put my house in the U.K on the market and started taking viewings (hard work !). I had no intention of moving abroad and when I had a buyer (with no chain, 2 cash buyers in the link) I put an offer on another house and prepared for a speedy sale and mortgage free living!

However it was not to be, and with an adverse survey and awkward buyers buyer I made a decision to look at property "in the sun" and saw that Cyprus was a hot spot. (had been here once years ago and with my daughter 2 years ago). Saw a fantastic bungalow and was hooked but didn't expect a personal 'phone call in response to my email noting my interest.

Chris Calogirou called (beating 2 more phone calls from UK web sites over the next few days) and I was totally charmed by this introduction to Cyprus. He asked a few questions relevant to my enquiry and left me to consider without any pressure. We then emailed over the next month, it was a big decision to make as I had things to sort out independent of the purchase.

When I had made my decision that I would like to view property in Cyprus, Chris explained that his company could arrange flight and accommodation or part and part, and we did the latter as I wanted to have a short holiday to get over the effect of the move (exchange and completion in the end was finalised when I was checking in at Gatwick Airport). Although all worked out in the end, it did seem like the move from hell and Chris was so supportive, receiving last minute emails with change of dates etc... he gave me clear instructions about the arrangements even phoning me on a Sunday, when I was surrounded by boxes in an otherwise empty house,...saying " I bet you are surrounded by boxes and wondering what you are doing"...
 
When I arrived in Cyprus I was met by Brigitta, as arranged by Chris. Brigitta, as I discovered is Polish, married to a Cypriot in Cyprus for 15 years or so and very happy and proud to be here. She met me promptly in the hotel reception with a firm handshake and warm smile. We discussed my requirements again as detailed in my emails to Chris and off we went on our tour of properties. This could have been a tiring experience but Brigitta was charming, taking her time to show me the locations then properties, some new developments, where we met the developers, others were resales, I was not sure if I wanted a flat or house so we looked at both. Over the next 3 days we did a tour of Limassol and Larnaca and I did so enjoy the experience of meeting all the friendly Cypriots she introduced me to.

When I had chosen my property we met with a Cypriot (female) Solicitor who had a Cypriot advocate who had just studied in Kent, England. They were professional, kind and totally committed to giving me the best advice, professionally and financially. I then finally got to meet Chris and his staff in the office in Limassol. Chris told me something, which has indeed been the case, which was that his staff would always be there if I had any problems in the future. I then was offered the opportunity to meet a UK company representative, based in Paphos, who was in fact Finnish! who arranged my money transfer. I moved into my house in September and have made a smooth transition, with more help from Brigitta with the purchase of my car.
 
This is my opportunity to thank Calogirou for an excellent property purchase experience. It all went smoothly and when there were slight hitches these were picked up on and quickly sorted, there was continuity. I love Cyprus and the people and the sun shines all the time! I will leave my mobile no with Chris and am happy to be contacted if any potential purchasers wish to do so.

Linda Mullings

It was a dark and stormy night in Kathmandu… a decade of escalating warfare, low-flying helicopters, bangs and shouts, shortages of everything from electricity to food had shattered my nerves, and my hopes for a beloved country.

A chance email changed all this: You’d love Cyprus, writes my ex-husband, on winter holiday with his octogenarian mother. Cyprus? I’d thought vaguely of Greece, perhaps Spain, as alternatives to snow-bound winters at my cabin in Norway, but there had never been any urgency..until now.

Checking the Net whenever the electricity functions, I discover that not only does Cyprus boast the warmest winters in the Mediterranean, it also abounds in properties for sale. Finally I find in Chris Calogirou an agent who understands my wish: a quiet place with charm. No frills. Between 10 February and 3 April, we exchange over 50 chatty emails – but properties? ‘Wait till you get here’, he advises.

Thursday/Friday: On standby and as the sole passenger among 13 armed guards I reach the airport as curfew falls on Nepal’s biggest-ever strike.

Monday morning: Domenica drives me up into the hills. With breaks to raid the almond groves and photograph the wild flowers, we turn off onto a local road. As we round a bend, I shout Stop! This is it! Red tiled rooves dot the steep hillside, with Troodos as backdrop. A wild poppy flames from a roadside vineyard.

OK, I’d better see the house first, I concede. Down the narrow street, then a series of steps. The valley unfolds below us. Behind blue gates is my Dream House, a renovated stone cottage. Tiny village. Friendly people. Peace and quiet. I have never looked back.

Susan Hoivik

Some years ago we decided to buy a property abroad initially for holidays and then eventually with a view to retiring. After many trips to different places we decided on the Island of Cyprus, the main reason being for the relaxed attitude of the Cypriots, the low crime rate and low cost of living, also we were put off Spain due to the horror stories being published in the British papers regarding land grabs etc.

We visited many parts of the Island, but eventually we felt that the East coast was where we would like to settle. Initially we were very apprehensive and I suppose unsure of handing over what was to us a large amount of money. So with this in mind we paid a deposit on an 'off plan' 1 bedroomed apartment in Paralimni. The buying process was very easy and hassle free, and once we had made up our minds we were taken to a lawyers office where we signed our contract and handed over our deposit. We got worried at one point as we thought that as we had not heard anything from the developer that maybe they had gone bust or worse..run off with our money, this was certainly not the case. We could not believe how easy it had been, we felt that something should have gone wrong, but nothing did.

We took delivery of the flat in April 2004 and it was everything that had been promised to us. We stayed in the flat a couple of times and then we placed it on the market as we realised that we would like to live in Cyprus, it was definitely the place for us, but we would need to buy a bigger place, so we have been through the whole process again. My one regret, if any, is that we should have jumped in with both feet and bought something bigger in the first instance and not to have been as apprehensive as we were and to have faith and trust in the people who helped us.
 
I would say there are a few simple rules to follow when buying a property in another country:-
1) Find a good agent who will show you many different properties and who is willing to discuss and explore all your options.
2) Find a good lawyer who is not ''in bed'' with any developers.
3) Many of us now have the finest tool at our disposal..the Internet...Use It. There are many websites that you can find to gain all the information that you need, one of the best is the Eastern owners site where you can ask people who have bought properties over in Cyprus questions about lawyers and developers etc.

This is the nutshell version of our experience, I do not regret one minute of the whole process and have done it again, in fact when our new place is built we are thinking of putting it straight on the market so that we can move further inland as we would like to live in a quiet Cypriot village.

Regards
Karen and Leslie Irwin

My property purchase experience was many years ago, but as far as I remember I did not have any difficulties or problems with the developer or owner. They were kind, helpful, friendly and faithful people, very professional and the delivery was as scheduled. I had to make some changes and they did not have any problem.  On the contrary they made suggestions to us and they had the kindness to wait for me to decide.

As far as the way of payment is concerned everything went smoothly as agreed at the beginning.  Finally, when I paid all amount they made all necessary arrangements for transferring the title to me.  I only had to go and sign some papers. I had excellent service from start to finish.

I had no hesitation in recommending their services to friends and family and anyone else who would like information on buying property.

Despina Karaoli

From: Tracey Goddard
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 3:07 PM
To: 'Chris Calogirou'
Subject: Sale of Property

Hi Chris,

Now all the sale is complete, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all your efforts in assisting us with the sale and finding the Buyer. After years of stress and worry, I can honestly say it’s a huge relief the property is now sold.

Thank you and your Team, once again.

Kind Regards

Tracey Goddard