Number one in Europe
100,000 ads on portal ee24.com! In May 2014 portal ee24.com became the first resource in RuNet dedicated to European real estate for sale, where the number of offers exceeded 100,000. Considering Russian portals that deal with sales and rentals of real estate all over the world, ee24.com is the fourth to reach the number of one hundred listings.
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Cities of great opportunities. London took the first place among the world's cities, which provide full range of opportunities for a full life. Paris and Stockholm also got into the top-10, but in total there are 8 European metropolises, presented in the rating. Portal ee24.com informed what helped them to take the leading places.
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"Golden Visas" in Spain are not very interesting. For 8 months that the law regarding residence permit in Spain for buyers of expensive real estate has been in force, only 72 people benefited from this opportunity. Government clearly hoped for better results.
Districts of container-houses. There’s no denying Londoners’ creativity. Last year they built the highest skyscraper (The Shard) in the European Union, as a lightning rod, and this year they are going to build up free spaces in the city with budget residential containers.
Russian officials told about their European real estate. Employees of St. Petersburg government committees own real estate in Spain, France, Latvia, Estonia, Montenegro and other European countries. And vice-governor of Saint Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi, on the contrary, decided to part with his foreign property and sold his land plot in Bulgaria for 0.2 % of its value.
Berliners voted against new construction. In the course of the referendum, 65% of residents opposed the plans for the building on the territory of former Tempelhof Airport. To the joy of Berliners the grassed field remains untouched and open for visitors.
Finnish cottages for a couple of rubles. In 2013, the Russians bought twice less cottages in Finland than five years ago. Besides the fall of the ruble, competition between countries has increased, and many of them, unlike Suomi, offer inexpensive real estate and residence permit.