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YoMo2 wrote:One point. With the joint ownership, did you need two forms for each property? One per owner?

Andrew

No, Andrew. 2 forms, each of which listed the 3 properties. The staff were extremely helpful, and were all to a greater or lesser extent, English speakers.

Yes, ours is completed. Our accountant did the forms, we went to the Ktimatologio office in Sitia and spent an hour with the team there - we have a total of 3 plots of land, and joint ownership, so there were 6 things to be checked. There first person we saw, who was a lawyer went through the contra...

I think the really simple reason is that (as you will discover) many, many people here have the same name - not only first name, but surname as well. It is similar, therefore, to saying ie "Jones the butcher" or "Jones the mechanic". Here it is ......"Manolis the son of Yior...

Was there not a requirement to have your UK licence "officially" translated into Greek, Carolina? We had to do this at our lawyer - charge was smallish, but it had to be done.

No problem, Bob. I wasn't really having a go at you. I was sounding off because again and again people make criticisms of the EU and how it operates that aren't valid, either because the EU doesn't operate in the way described or the issue is nothing to do with the EU. Warwick This is familiar, War...

Update. We have done our registration of property this morning. Yes, there is a charge for the property declaration, according to the number of plots of land. Yes, your accountant will probably charge to prepare the paperwork, as it is outside the normal remit of what he/she does for you - ie tax ma...

If you are an animal lover Cretans don`t treat there dogs very well most are kept chained or caged 24 hours a day! Well that's certainly not the case down the western end. We have a pro-active Mayor who is funding animal welfare clinics and free neutering programmes, as well as a police force who a...

Only 50 euros a year Bob? You're getting a bargain! Or I'm being fleeced. Ours is significantly more than that as well but, as Warwick says, if there are "international" issues then we'd expect to pay more. Having said that, we are definitely keeping to the "it is an annual fee howev...

The whole purpose of the registry is to have an accurate record of legal title, Jeff. If you own land, with or without a house you should have a contract from a notary. The registry wants to record who owns what. The local land registry did a partial job by recording the contracts but the new land ...

Tim, we have agricultural land, and the same accountant! I've been told to take all the documents to them in early January to check, and then go to the place on the Piskokefalo road. We actually have the "missing" one, as we went to a registry place in Sitia some years ago at the behest, I...

..and, as above - there is an office in Sitia as well! Opposite the high school (and Bidakis courier office) on the Sitia - Piskokefalo road.

Just an addition to the information above. If your house was/is a new build then you are also required to produce the building permission.

Yes, it is still open and yes, it is near (just before) Lidl as you come from Ag Nik towards Kritsa.

We received a card yesterday posted last Wednesday in the UK - this is about the normal time it takes, if not quicker! Conversely, I'm still awaiting a small package from Amazon due to arrive last Thursday! The company fulfilling the order use the post rather than a courier, so I know that isn't the...

To balance this out - for those in the far East of the island. Xalkiadakis, Ariadne and Lidl in Sitia all have boxes for the social supermarket.