Greece property boom: Young Greeks are being priced out of market

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  • Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
  • Tourism is fuelling a property boom in Greece.
    But as billions of dollars’ worth of real estate goes up for sale, young Greeks hoping to buy their first home say they are being priced out of the market.
    Al Jazeera’s John Psaropoulos from Athens, Greece.
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  • @furryflowersrescue
    @furryflowersrescue 9 місяців тому +5

    There are plenty of empty properties in Greece, and many unfinished buildings. Prices have risen, but apart from the cities, most places sit on the market for years. This is due to the prices being fixed by the owners instead of real estate agents. Many Greeks, approx 70%, own not just one but often multiple homes, most without mortgages. This is why many refuse to budge on the inflated prices they set. They can wait to get what they want for their properties. Foreign investors are the main buyers, and the main reason for prices hikes. Greek government has recently increased Golden Visa in cities to €500,000.

    • @bu2f
      @bu2f 7 місяців тому +1

      U put the finger on a real problem, the cadastre laws in Greece are really weirds

  • @Sofian375
    @Sofian375 Рік тому +17

    They already told you, you should not own anything.

    • @Ufu4847
      @Ufu4847 Рік тому

      But they want you to get vaccinated.

  • @yolandaratliff4710
    @yolandaratliff4710 Рік тому +16

    This is happening everywhere. This is what all the young people in the U.S. are saying. I'm a realtor and they are not wrong. Just when they think they've reached their goal, the goalposts move.

    • @boohoo79
      @boohoo79 Рік тому

      Greece is a dishonest tax evading parasite of a nation only the New Drachma will save Greece especially with tourism and thats it

    • @krnpowr
      @krnpowr Рік тому +2

      Capitalism has failed humanity. This is in fact why I never had kids- financial constraints. Now that I make good money, I'm too old.

    • @kolabola7200
      @kolabola7200 Рік тому

      ​​@@krnpowrCapitalism and socialiam are abstract concepts of utopian fantasies that can never ever exit in real life. All these moneies and consistent inflation is the result of the fiat currency system that was born in 1971 in the west. It will go down in history as one of the worst moments in human history.

  • @northerngrower-my7wb
    @northerngrower-my7wb Рік тому +15

    This is what happened in my country in toronto amd vancouver

    • @krnpowr
      @krnpowr Рік тому

      And here in the US, and across Asia as well. That's why young people can't have kids.

    • @theofficialcybermonkeys1271
      @theofficialcybermonkeys1271 Рік тому +1

      @@krnpowrah I have 5 brothers and sisters we’re all late 20s to late 30s . My closest baby sister is the only one so far to have her first and probably only child but wasn’t planning on having it either. I’m 28 don’t plan on having a kid for another 5 years. They make it harder/less incentivized to raise one nowadays.

    • @krnpowr
      @krnpowr Рік тому +1

      @@theofficialcybermonkeys1271 Yup. My sister-in-law has a 2 yr old and a 3 yr old- both attending pre-school. $2K/month for each child. So for her two kids- it's $4K/month pre-school fees. That's more than what many people pay in rent or mortgage.

    • @c.t.7450
      @c.t.7450 Рік тому +2

      I was watching a video the other day in which in some places of Canada a 3 bedroom house with a yard is more expensive to buy than a whole castle in Europe!!!

    • @krnpowr
      @krnpowr Рік тому +1

      @@c.t.7450 Given that choice, who would want to live in Canada?

  • @hiss9989
    @hiss9989 Рік тому +6

    Young Greeks have been priced out of everything for at least a decade. Nothing new here.

  • @101logic
    @101logic Рік тому +4

    Let’s not fool ourselves. There is no long term positivity to this based on what’s happening to London, Toronto, New York of which are all going to though this issue

    • @c.t.7450
      @c.t.7450 Рік тому +2

      They are creating neigbourhoods for ultra rich people all over the world and simutaneously make it harder and harder for everyone else to buy or even rent a place in those and even more distant areas

  • @jjgreek1
    @jjgreek1 Рік тому +5

    What goes up must come down

  • @jackierogers566
    @jackierogers566 2 місяці тому

    Air bnb is a huge problem

  • @nick63837
    @nick63837 Рік тому +3

    I feel sorry for the guy that left the Netherlands to go back to Greece. I live in the Netherlands from Greece.. I could never go back..

    • @vassilisioannou5488
      @vassilisioannou5488 Рік тому +1

      That's because your not Greek your from Pakistan

    • @nick63837
      @nick63837 Рік тому +1

      @@vassilisioannou5488 Έλληνας είμαι..

    • @Theo13136
      @Theo13136 8 місяців тому

      ​@@vassilisioannou5488are you stupid I am the same I live in Australia but I'm greek ilithia

  • @calziz
    @calziz 11 місяців тому

    It’s sad because we are hurting future generations from getting established

  • @boohoo79
    @boohoo79 Рік тому +2

    New Drachma is the only solution

    • @c.t.7450
      @c.t.7450 Рік тому +1

      That option will only make the housing market even more desirable for foreign developing investors !they will buy everything really cheap for their currency and then sell it at top dollar prices(if you count the dollar as 'top' these days)!