Search found 31 matches
- 13 Aug 2019 00:37
- Forum: Mark Nowell's Financial Questions
- Topic: Communal Fees - Making them up!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5242
Re: Communal Fees - Making them up!
thank you Nigel it is sorted now - and I think I understand what might have happened an FB response ... my guess would be Pafilia sold the larger roof top apartments, pent house apartments with a promise of low annual maintenance fees, and used their interpretation of the law to get around the respo...
- 10 Aug 2019 01:22
- Forum: Mark Nowell's Financial Questions
- Topic: Communal Fees - Making them up!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5242
Re: Communal Fees - Making them up!
Result They appear to have given in - albeit with the Cypriot refusal to admit a mistake and talk rubbish instead! they had until today until I referred then to the Financial Ombudsman - then this came .... Dear ....Further to our previous communication with regards to the above subject, we are plea...
- 20 Jul 2019 12:00
- Forum: Mark Nowell's Financial Questions
- Topic: Communal Fees - Making them up!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5242
Communal Fees - Making them up!
would appreciate advice please. I own an apartment in Paphos built by one of the major developers. Their in-house property management company collect communal fees from us all, but I am not comfortable with how they are calculating individual shares. As I understand is there is only one way to corre...
- 24 Apr 2019 00:23
- Forum: General Property Questions
- Topic: Communal Insurance - Service Standards
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4668
Communal Insurance - Service Standards
Good Evening can you offer any advice on service standards for Cypriot Insurance Companies and Developers please? My property is in a Pafilia Development where communal management is provided by Blue Orange (a Pafilia subsidiary) who insure the communal property through CNP Afsalistiki. Back in Janu...
- 17 Dec 2018 17:39
- Forum: Louise Zambartas' Legal Questions
- Topic: "Own Risk" Disclaimer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6481
Re: "Own Risk" Disclaimer
thanks jb
I shall try that route
I shall try that route
- 16 Dec 2018 19:24
- Forum: Louise Zambartas' Legal Questions
- Topic: "Own Risk" Disclaimer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6481
Re: "Own Risk" Disclaimer
thank nigel i have found another possible solution in the short term .... a FB reply that I got ..... P I would have thought your solicitor could have sorted this one out. However, putting a sign up could help protect you in case anyone got hurt, plus if the complex has public liability insurance th...
- 15 Dec 2018 20:22
- Forum: Louise Zambartas' Legal Questions
- Topic: "Own Risk" Disclaimer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6481
"Own Risk" Disclaimer
This is an odd problem - but earlier in the year I bought an apartment in paphos where the developer (Pafilia) had clearly messed up the plans they submitted to the land registry (wrong numbers on flats, storage rooms etc). My Cypriot solicitor did not spot this. He would have done so had he asked f...
- 03 Sep 2018 15:02
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
Re: this swimming pool malarky
8k signatures will trigger a mandatory ministerial review - worth signing maybe? Brian, Firstly thank you for signing the petition calling for the suspension of the prosecution of 150 complexes and an urgent review of the swimming pool regulations. I am happy to report that we have just hit 1000 si...
- 28 Aug 2018 20:15
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
Re: this swimming pool malarky
hi lady warrior
Doros T's statements were made in front of, and minuted by, residents of the development in which I own a property.
I can not comment on whether or not he was telling the truth - but I know our owners were
best wishes
Doros T's statements were made in front of, and minuted by, residents of the development in which I own a property.
I can not comment on whether or not he was telling the truth - but I know our owners were
best wishes
- 28 Aug 2018 20:11
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
- 16 Aug 2018 01:34
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
Re: this swimming pool malarky
update and some progress (Nigel - I shared your comments on own risk when swimming etc - they have been leapt on - thanks) my development is Pafilia built and Blue Orange Managed (they act as our Management Committee) in Paphos some meeting notes .... "Last week our representative met with Mr Doros ...
- 15 Aug 2018 19:46
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
Re: this swimming pool malarky
we too are coming under pressure to sign an "instruction" with BO which authorises them to act as the pool manager and to recharge us with any fees they incur (all to be agreed and signed by end August) I am planning to respond to BO as follows (thanks Nigel as ever) Good Morning Thanks for your cor...
- 03 Aug 2018 20:09
- Forum: Communal Property Management
- Topic: this swimming pool malarky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17490
Re: this swimming pool malarky
thank nigel
very helpful
i assume then that Cyprus, as a member of the EU, ignores EU directives on how swimming pools are to be classified
(I know the answer!)

very helpful
i assume then that Cyprus, as a member of the EU, ignores EU directives on how swimming pools are to be classified
(I know the answer!)

- 23 Jul 2018 02:28
- Forum: General Property Questions
- Topic: REGULATION 650/2012 OR Brussels IV
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5824
been through this recently ...
letter to cyprus solicitor and fees Dear Sir/Madam my wife and I have recently completed the purchase of a holiday home in Paphos. We are joint owners of the property. My UK solicitor has advised us that we need to amend our UK Wills to include a Codicil that states that UK law should apply to our e...
- 23 Jul 2018 02:08
- Forum: Buying Resale Property
- Topic: Repos through REMU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6227
our experience of a repo
In our case REMU put the property with an estate agent we knew - it had been up for sale for at least a year through REMU themselves with no success so they went out to 2 agents for responses to a tender. Property is sold as seen - so survey etc. REMU had the title deeds in their name and the law on...