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Private
Sales
& Auctions
I started off working in
conjunction
with a small agency in Stara Zagora to promote a few properties for
sale after I had bought one or two rural houses here. From there I
moved on to renting an office of my own in Stara Zagora and working in
conjunction with 2 or 3 agencies in the area as well as listing
properties for sale in other regions of Bulgaria through contacts with
other agents. Then as the recession started to take hold and Bulgaria
received negative press in the media, no longer the
hot spot to buy in, I gave up
the office and scaled down the website listings to those from people
who had personally contacted me hoping to sell their properties in
Bulgaria and those properties I knew personally and had visited.
We are now at a strange time
in the
property market in Bulgaria. Many people who bought several properties
over the last few years are now looking to offload one or two of these,
others who renovated an old Bulgaria house into their dream home are
trying to sell up and move back to the UK. But on the other hand there
are green shoots in the property market with enquiries and sales
picking up slightly in 2010 and 2011 showing definite promise. With
many sick of
the rain and rat race of the
UK, they are looking to move to sunnier climates and due to low
property prices and long hot summers, considering Bulgaria. It is
thought that the bottom has been reached with regard to the Bulgarian
property market and that prices will now level off and start to slowly
increase again in the later part of 2011. I have personally sold 3
properties through late 2010 and 2011, all be it at low prices.
Whilst I am happy to give
advice and
help where I can to anyone thinking of buying in Bulgaria, I do not
want to be involved in the actual sales process
(unless it is a property I am personally selling) and intend to develop
the website into a place where people
can advertise their properties for sale. My aim is to turn TheTravelBug
website into mainly an advice site for Bulgaria, living abroad and
expat issues and just have private paid listings of properties for
sale, where all enquiries go to the owner.
I have done a
large amount of promotion for the site and continue to do so. I have
had articles (linking back to this
website) published on a number of popular websites and blogs. These
include the
InternationalPropertyInvestment blog, The
New York Times 'Raising the Roof' Blog,
the
OverSeasProperty Mall amongst
other. This website now receives over 150,000 hits a month and close to
4000 unique visitors. After recent website optimisation and an ongoing
campaign the site is listed in the top 10 of google for many popular
keywords such as 'houses for sale in Bulgaria' (6th), 'Bulgaria
property investments' (7th), "Bulgarian property investing' (6th),
'property for sale in Bulgaria' (10th), 'houses in Bulgaria' (13th),
'buying property in Bulgaria' (14th) and 'property in Bulgaria' (25th).
The site is constantly promoted through various means - search
engines, facebook, articles, blogs and forums.
I charge a small fee for
advertising and
promoting private sales. I do not simply list your property for sale
and forget about it as many other websites and agents do, I place it
for sale on my website, as well as on my forum and let all my current
newsletter and forum subscribers know about your property (around 800
people in total). I try and match people looking for houses with
suitable
properties so will always keep your property in mind if someone is
looking for something like what you are offering.
MyBulgaria charge 50 GBP for
a 6 month
listing of one property, RightMove Overseas.co.uk charge 75 GPB a month
and Viviun International Property Listings charge $19.95 a month. So I
think you will agree that 55 Euros for a listing until your
property is
sold, along with continual marketing of your property(s) is a good
deal.
For 55 Euros (£50)
I offer
the
following:
1. Your property detailed on this website under the appropriate price
section.
2. Your property detailed on my forum
under the appropriate section.
3. Your property detailed on thetravelbug
blog as a feature article and
pinged to all blog broadcast places as well as the latest headlines
being visible on my website and forum.
4. Details of your property sent by e-newsletter to all my mailing list
and forum subscribers (around 800 people)
5. Your property listed on TheTravelbug
FaceBook
page
You can include more or less as many photos as you like (4 to 6 ideal)
and video
footage if you have it
for showing on this website.
Your contact details will
be listed with
your advert details and enquiries will go directly to you. I charge no
commission on a sale as all enquiries and negotiations will be dealt
with by you.
Multiple Listings:
For two or more
properties there
is a 10%
discount so each property will basically be 50 Euros per
listing.
Payment can be made by moneybookers (preferred method for overseas
payments (i.e. from UK) and cheapest in terms of fees) at
http://www.moneybookers.com to
rachel@thetravelbug.org. You can
simply open an account and fund your moneybookers account by bank
transfer or debit card and then send money directly to me using my
email address. Or you can pay by paypal to the same address and pay by
credit card.
Or you can deposit the money directly into my UK Natwest account or by
cheque in the UK or to my Bulgarian bank account. Email me for
details.
5
Euros from every listing will go to TwitchyNoses Charity to raise funds for the dogs
and cats of Bulgaria.
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