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[simonwjones]

including VAT Mr Grump!

Why is it interesting?

[cyprusgrump]

Why is it interesting?

I know the area quite well – I rented in Salaminas Street while my house was being built and my best friend used to live in a village house just opposite.

A one-bedroom holiday home right? Are you planning to stay there or try and rent it out?

[simonwjones]

Visit there 2/3 times a year and rent it out. I have been quoted from the developer I could get between £196-£280 CYP per week rent. Yes, it is a one bed apt.

How real are the figures they are quoting? Or is just sales talk!?!?

[cyprusgrump]

Visit there 2/3 times a year and rent it out. I have been quoted from the developer I could get between £196-£280 CYP per week rent. Yes, it is a one bed apt.

How real are the figures they are quoting? Or is just sales talk!?!?

Look, I know you think I don’t like you but…

The village is awash with rental property at the moment and Aristo is building masses of apartment blocks to make matters worse..

Consider these apartments.

They’re significantly bigger two bedroom apartments with fantastic views in a 50/50 holiday residential area. More importantly, the development is complete so your guests won’t be staying in a building site. Have a look at the rates.

I personally think CY£280 for a one-bed 50m² apartment in Pissouri is pie-in-the-sky.

However, if they are prepared to offer you a rental guarantee then I can see that it would make sound economic sense.

The marketing is pretty good but let’s be honest; you don’t need a gated community in Cyprus (not yet anyway)...

[simonwjones]

Thanks, you are softening in your old age!

They haven't offered guaranteed rental but if we can get something back it would be a bonus. We will only have a small mortgage so the rental isnt that important to be truthful!!!

[Leyland]

It is a shame that Pissouri will probably go the same way Limassol etc. I have been going to the island for some 30 years now, the first time Limassol finished at the Amathus, and the infrastructure just didn't keep up with it.

Pissouri and Evdimou are really nice beaches, relatively unspoilt. But at the rate things are going the beaches are going to be gobbled up by development. I have have been looking at the village for a few years now to buy somewhere and settle, (NOT rent),but I am concerned that I will be over developed.

The Cyprus I knew back in the 70's is being overtaken by mass deveolpment. Cypriots are fantastic people, it is a shame that the builders are spoiling the land.

[simonwjones]

I was there last week and was amazed how much Paphos has changed. It is now like one big housing estate full of restuarant owners flogging fish, chips and burgers!!!...not true Cypriot cuisine at all.

Development happens in every tourist village/town its something that you and I cant control. I'm not sure if Pissouri will go like Limassol the two places are totally different.

[nhowarth]

Gordon Honeycombe christened Pissouri as "The Edge of Heaven" some twenty years ago when he spent some time there writing his book about the village. Many of the expatriates living there today have rechristened it "The Village of the Damned".

Visit http://www.cyprus-property-buyers.com/v ... ters-3.htm to find out why!

Regards,

[cyprusgrump]

Gordon Honeycombe christened Pissouri as "The Edge of Heaven" some twenty years ago when he spent some time there writing his book about the village. Many of the expatriates living there today have rechristened it "The Village of the Damned".

I’m very surprised at you for presenting Pissouri in such a negative and unprofessional way! You do yourself no favours whatsoever.

Firstly, having lived in Pissouri for four years I’ve never once heard it called ‘The village of the damned’.

Secondly, you’ve been very selective in your photography and try to give the impression that the whole of Pissouri is sliding down a hill – this is patently untrue and I wonder why you would want to promote this ridiculous idea?

With regard to the pictures, I can’t place the first picture (picture 13. perhaps you could enlighten me as to where it was taken).

Pictures 14 and 15 are of a development of three properties that were built on (clearly) unsound land. You might be interested to add to the pictures the information that the government has accepted responsibility for wrongly allowing planning permission on this land and that the owners of the properties are in the process of being compensated for their loss. However, I accept that this might taint your biased view against Pissouri and this probably will not happen.

Picture 16 is of another part of the village altogether. I’m surprised that you fail to mention in the caption that the fence has collapsed because another development undermined the cliff on which it stands – nothing to do with Pissouri being built ‘on the top of a hill of very loose soil’ at all. This owner has forced the developer to stop the project that has caused his fence to collapse and is currently taking court proceedings against him.

Clearly, the whole of Pissouri is not currently sliding down its ‘loose soil’ towards the sea and you should be ashamed of yourself for presenting it in such a way.

[simonwjones]

Thank you CyprusGrump!

You have just calmed my nerves. I thought what Nigel wrote was abit over the top. If that was the case with Pissouri then no-one would get planning permission to build would they?