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Nigel Howarth wrote: 13 Dec 2024 16:24 I expect you applied to the Deputy Ministry of Tourism for a licence?

Indeed we did

(I would be interested to hear what happens if a non-EU citizen tries to get a licence to rent out their second home on Airbnb or another on-line rental platform.)


We are (and always have been) UK citizens/residents

We bought an apartment in 1996 which we upgraded for a villa in 2000
We then ...

Could you please advise on the steps you took in order to acquire the right to rent properties as a non-EU citizen?
We've been hearing that this is not possible for us to rent since (as non-EU) we can only own a property for personal needs...


Hi Freghufe

I used the "innocent till proven guilty ...

We own a villa in a village outside Paphos which is rented out to a British couple
L&G used to own next door but the developers swapped it for another of their properties.
The developers are now bankrupt (?) but we believe that *maybe* one of the directors actually owned the house.
There were ...

MariaS wrote: 02 Jul 2024 08:40 If we do not refund her she will go to the police.

That made me chuckle - I'm sure the police won't be in the slightest bit interested.
Please don't repay her!

Also ...

Nigel has a section on the Eastern Cyprus message board - there are (IRC) a few discussions on getting a license there.

https://www.easterncyprus.com/viewforum.php?f=35

We are UK citizens.
We own two properties in Tala, which of course we thing is the best area! :lol:
One we rent out long term to a British couple and the other we use for holiday rentals and we have a tourist board license for the latter.


Hi JB!
I like Tala very much and I've read good ...

We are UK citizens.
We own two properties in Tala, which of course we thing is the best area!
One we rent out long term to a British couple and the other we use for holiday rentals and we have a tourist board license for the latter.

Many years ago the team from a garden centre on the *old* airport road came and killed the roots of a tree for us.
I think they drilled a hole in the stump and poured a noxious chemical in - it did the trick.
Think they were called Green Art
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=green ... hos+cyprus

Slightly off topic but I've just been talking to our business insurance broker in the UK.
The companies he deals with have added 18% to property rebuild costs this year.

Did you just use the words 'quickly' and 'Cyprus' in the same sentence?

kazziebfc wrote: 16 Mar 2023 14:41 Hi my executors are my cyprus lawyer and my brother in law who has since passed away..

Not relevant to this actual query, but friends of ours were stung by the solicitor who was executor of their father's will.

Could Nigel pass comment?

I did see it thank you … don't know where it has gone :)


Just for clarity, the gist of my original post was that we had a CHF mortgage with Emporiki bank which we managed to pay off after an inheritance.

At a later date we used a UK mortgage broker (details available by PM if required) to ...

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They asked for a UK company to help them and I posted a link to the UK mortgage broker that we used. Didn't think that would be against the ...

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I posted a reply last night, which you have obviously read .... but it's no longer there.