Kingdom Belgium

The most demanded cities there is Bruxelles, Antwerp - large seaport and the world centre of a facet of diamonds. The prices for the real estate are not too high - on the average 500 - 1000/1 sq. metre.

The apartment a total area of 100 sq. metres in these cities can be got on the average for 60 - 80 thousand And a bungalow, for example, in Tongerene (Flanders) with a site of an order of 1,5 thousand sq. metres, pool, garage on two cars, 4-5 bedrooms, a patio etc. - approximately for $230 thousand On periphery the habitation is cheaper: from 15 thousand for modest apartment for the student to 40 thousand for a small cosy small house with a kind on mountains. From the beginning of 2005 experts notice the tendency to a rise in prices that does investments in the local building industry - both in the centre, and in a province - especially favourable.

In Belgium the prestigious habitation from 3-4-êîìíàò to 100 sq.m. is leased by the area for $700-800 in a month taking into account municipal expenses. $1,5 thousand - 1,7 thousand a month costs rent of a cottage with the furniture equipped with kitchen and garage. Rent spacious (to 8 living rooms) country houses with green sites the area not less than 0,5 hectares costs from $4 thousand

In the country grandiose building is developed: according to the Belgian National institute of statistics, in comparison with 2004 the quantity of permissions to erection of new houses has increased by 8,6 %. By separate kinds of elite habitation it has grown on 12,2 %, and on the reconstructed buildings (including to ancient castles and palaces) - on 8,8 %. Demand in the primary and secondary market of habitation is so great that the offer hardly keeps up with it. It allows experts to assert all that, after London and Paris, the Belgian market of the real estate - the most dynamical and perspective. As solid foreign investors willingly translate here the headquarters with the personnel, have office rooms, rent rates on which in the Belgian capital on 50-70 % more low, than in the largest cities of Europe, and also get habitation to the managers. Registration of the transaction of purchase and sale occupies on the average 2-3 months. The future proprietor of habitation at first should conclude at the local notary the preliminary contract with the seller and pay the last of 10 % of a project cost. Only after that the lawyer undertakes preparation of documents: the contract draught, certification of a ground cadastre, acknowledgement of absence of default from outside the owner of object. It finds out presence of questions at issue, conformity of the data specified in the preliminary contract, to a real situation, etc.

The habitation got under the hypothecary credit (at a rate of 50-80 % from a project cost for a period of 30 years, the rate of 5-6 % annual), at once is made out addressed to the buyer - actually official owner. At the fixed monthly payments under the credit banks widely enough practise changes of terms of payment of the basic debt (at will of the client).

To a sale price inhabited the object of the secondary market is added the registration duty at the rate to 12,5 % from the sum of the contract which it is necessary to list in the Belgian treasury not later than four months from the date of transaction fulfilment. The VAT in the market of secondary habitation is not paid. At purchase of the new or not completed house the tax in 12,5 % is raised only from earth cost, and the structure is assessed with 21 %-s’ tax to the added cost.