The meeting was organized by the Hellenic-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Tourism, Trade and Industry of Northern Greece and the Observatory of Real Estate Prices and Appraisals of the SE. Of Europe.
A common component of the speakers, that the outbreak of the pandemic crisis stopped the upward trend of the real estate market, which began to stabilize in 2019 after a number of years affected, but also the finding that the post-covid-19 era will mean subversive changes for the industry and great opportunities.
Referring to the major projects that have already entered the implementation path and now have a time horizon for completion, the Deputy Regional Minister of Infrastructure and Networks of Central Macedonia, Paris Bilias, stressed that the reform of the image of Thessaloniki that will be achieved will fatally boost the real estate market. . "The real estate market will flourish in the post-covid-19 era," he said.
Great opportunities in the real estate market that in order to be utilized will have to be accompanied by brave institutional arrangements, provision of incentives and useful tools, stressed the president of the TEE-department of Central Macedonia, George Tsakoumis. He pointed out that the project that buys the coastal front of Thessaloniki is the most emblematic of what is planned, saying characteristically "it is what will give Brand to the city of Thessaloniki".
There is a wave of Greeks returning from abroad
He noted that the spatial planning promoted by the state, the completion of the city plan for Thessaloniki, but also the fact that the work of the National Land Registry has a visible end will have a positive effect on the recovery of the real estate market. He confirmed that "there is a wave of return" of Greeks who went abroad to find work, typically saying that "they follow the developments in terms of projects that are planned and implemented and have already started sending resumes in search of a job in their country Greece" . Among other things, he noted that the digital map, the project of 55 million euros planned by the TEE, will work positively in the recovery of the real estate market, while he announced that by the summer the contractor will emerge and the relevant contract will be signed.
The advent of the coronavirus overwhelmed the real estate market at a time when there was euphoria in the industry, said the president of the Property Owners of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, Costas Haidoutis, a lawyer, expressing his dissatisfaction with the reduction of rents to which the owners were forced to.
"Things are not so bad", pointed out the president of the Athens - Attica Brokers Association, Lefteris Potamianos, saying that the recovery in the industry will come from abroad, emphasizing that in the post-covid-19 era we will "see the industry to change, to change form and structure ". According to him, the spring that is at the gates of the industry is the residence and in this context he expressed his assessment that "the consideration will play an important role for our industry in the near future". He stressed the need to improve the relationship between the real estate market and the state, noting that "unfortunately" the space (this) is still unstructured.
The academic head of real estate programs at the University of Kapodistrias, Fotios Mouzakis, described the prospect of tax reduction in the real estate market as "necessary", noting that in the last 10 years the industry in our country has begun to acquire the characteristics of a developed market.
The meeting was coordinated by the president of the Hellenic-Serbian Chamber and the Observatory of Real Estate Prices and Appraisals of the SE. Of Europe, Costas Georgakos and the commercial representative and vice-president of the Association of Commercial Representatives of Northern Greece, Theodoros Triantaphyllidis.
