December is here and 2024 is coming to an end. HouseFinders Peloponnese, that is, Elias and I will enjoy a slower pace of work for the next two months, December and January. I myself, after the intense period from May to the end of October, do not know how to manage the ‘free’ days. Should I take up my Greek studies? Or should I ponder the latest updates in Adobe software? Or teach Estia new dog tricks? Before I decide for the next two months, it’s time to sum up 2024. (Czytaj po polsku tutaj, läs på svenska här). Below some of my photos taken in 2024 in the magical West Mani.
A big thank you to all our customers and partners!
- Elias and I are extremely grateful for the trust our clients have shown by hiring us to sell or rent their properties. Without you, we would not succeed in making our buying clients and/or our letting guests happy and our own business successful. We appreciate your work with us to prepare your properties for our viewings and for us to show your properties in a representative manner. A humble thank you from the threE of us (Elwira, Elias, Estia) at HouseFinders Peloponnese!
- We are proud, touched and grateful to all of you who chose to buy or rent through our company. In many cases, we have become close and created deeper, friendly relationships where neither nationality nor genre matters. The world feels a little cozier and safer in our dear Mani despite all the human or political disasters that 2024 has brought us… A warm thank you from us ThreE, and hope to see you soon in a tavern near you!
- We would also like to thank our partners who help our customers to carry out investments or construction projects safely and legally. And those of you who meet our customers when they need help picking olives or keeping their properties in good condition when they are not on site. It’s reassuring to be able to help our clients even after our job as real estate agents is done. A friendly thank you and see you soon, it’s a small world we live in, isn’t it?
Brief summary of 2024
- At the end of last year, we hoped that the new rules for building permits would be published around Easter or after summer 2024. Hope is not dead yet and we all keep our fingers crossed for December. Several plots that today can be considered buildable will stay as olive groves and there is a lot of good in that. We need the greenery, right? Smarter and clearer boundaries benefit us all in this case
- It was again more expensive to buy a house… In many cases, if you ask me, it’s a decision based on some ill-considered values. Many agents’ main goal is to match the price with the current Golden Visa amount or with the agent’s primary buying market. Incorrect and unfair thinking they take advantage of the simple fact that we do not have, as in other countries, an average recommended price per square meter. Excessive prices favor neither sellers nor buyers
- Elias and I noticed that our buyers have become younger and younger! Which is great for the area. The younger generation is in many cases ‘greener’ and more ‘entrepreneurial’. We both hope that their new ideas will be transformed into new local service or production companies
Bye bye 2024, let’s smile towards 2025!
I sincerely hope that the new year 2025 will be a good year for me, for us, for you and for our loved ones. I am already looking forward to the new meetings with people from all over the world who, like me and Elias, fell in love with West Mani. Wishing you all a happy end to the old 2024 and a great 2025. Embrace simplicity and sincerity, and you and your loved ones will have a wonderful 2025. Every New Year gives us a chance to right wrongs, change our path and truly make a difference. May the New Year realise many of your and our dreams. Below some of my sunset pictures taken in 2024 in the magical West Mani.
We look forward to saying hello to you from Canada, the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland (my home country!), Sweden (my home country number two), France, Romania or Switzerland. We’ve helped your compatriots before, and as we like to say: ‘There is nothing that cannot be found by the right search’! Below are some references from our satisfied customers in 2024.
- Elwira and Elias – you are extremely effective ‘ambassadors’ for the Mani area! Thanks to you and your extensive contacts, which we recommend 100%, the whole purchasing process was stress-free. According to us everyone can find something for themselves in your portfolio. Your hospitality is extraordinary, and your multiculturalism and multilingualism are a great help. We are very grateful to have met you both! Agnieszka+Adam, Malgorzata+Marcin, Poland
- Elwira and Elias provide excellent and reliable customer care throughout the purchasing process. Always open and friendly. They both responded to follow-up questions usually immediately or with only a couple of hours wait. We can definitely recommend the services of Elwira and Elias and their company! Esther and Thomas, Germany
- We bought a house in Mani through Housefinders Peloponnese. We were very happy and satisfied with the great service and guidance we received from E&E, Elwira and Elias, who were very professional and helpful, always available or returning as soon as possible to answer our questions and needs and solve any problems that arise during the processing. They are experts in this business, very dedicated and customer orientated. We recommend without the slightest hesitation the company and their services. Shulamit & Haim, Israel
Let’s meet in 2025 in Mani, a unique place where people still live a little closer together. For me, and maybe for you too, there is more room here for free thinking… I will end with a quote from Giorgos Seferi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall (Mr Kelvin Corcoran, thank you for bringing this speech to my attention during one of our meetings!) on 10 December 1963 when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
‘I belong to a small country. A rocky promontory in the Mediterranean, it has nothing to distinguish it but the efforts of its people, the sea, and the light of the sun. It is a small country, but its tradition is immense and has been handed down through the centuries without interruption. The Greek language has never ceased to be spoken. It has undergone the changes that all living things experience, but there has never been a gap. This tradition is characterised by love of the human; justice is its norm. In the tightly organized classical tragedies the man who exceeds his measure is punished by the Erinyes. And this norm of justice holds even in the realm of nature.’
