What’s going on in Cyprus?
There’s been a bit of a buzz recently in the financial world concerning “Buy to Let” properties. If you didn’t really understand fully what this really means well the title itself reveals that you just buy a property and then let it out. It is quite a simple principal really, but you must always calculate that your monthly rent will fully cover the monthly mortgage payment.
Traditionally you would have the same rental income on a monthly basis but if you were to do the same with a holiday home then you would then get staggered monthly rental income depending on the season. So if you were to find such a holiday home in Europe, where could you invest in a property where the holiday season lasted the longest. Well that would be North Cyprus which boasts some 300 sunny days per year with a high season that lasts an amazing seven months. So you can see that North Cyprus is the place to get the best profits and even more than a traditional “Buy to Let”.
There’s nothing better than having real figures to work from so let’s go over a property deal including a sea view totaling 250.000 Euro. First you will have to make an initial down payment of 3000 Euro to hold the property. That is followed by paying a 30% total deposit which would come to 75.000 Euro, including the 3000 Euro down payment.
With the deposit out of the way we just have to deal with the 175.000 Euro balance, which we are going to finance. Have a good look at all of the different mortgage options but I would recommend a interest only mortgage, as this way your monthly payments are lower. We will take the best rate in current conditions then the resulting monthly payments work out at about 800 Euro, that being 9.600 per year.
There are figures available in Northern Cyprus that show that a rental villa has an average rental activity for 10 months of the year. For a 250.000 Euro villa in Northern Cyprus you can expect an average of 2.600 Euro per month in the high season and about 1.500 Euro in the low season.
So if we go into a little fine detail on the property we have just purchased, let’s calculate on it being rented out for around 6 months over the high season and about 4 in the low season. This you may be amazed to know works out at 21.600 Euro rental income in your pocket. Well you will have to appoint a property management company to take care of your payments such as community charges, but this won’t be more than 1000 Euro a year. Are you beginning to see why property investment in Northern Cyprus sounds interesting?
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