Inside 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.
In the UK for example you would get a steady monthly income that just covers the mortgage payment, but if you apply it to a holiday home then you have to look at staggered income as the season months will be more profitable. If we had to look for Europe’s longest holiday season it would be in Northern Cyprus as here you can enjoy a full seven months. That all being so you will get 300 sunny days in Northern Cyprus each year so you will attract holiday makers virtually all year round.
To make things totally clear I am going to give you a real working example from start to beginning in order to explain just how you can reap the benefits from a “Buy to Let” property investment in Northern Cyprus. A rental villa in Northern Cyprus will cost about 250.000 Euro, so in order to start the reservation possess you will need to pay 3000 Euro. After that you will still have to pay 25% of the total amount, so including the initial holding fee, you will then have to pay a second amount of 72.000 and the rest on signing the property deeds.
The remaining balance will need to be well financed with a mortgage that will give the lowest monthly payments. That means choosing an “interest only” mortgage which offers just that and so with the current Euro bank rate of 5%, your monthly mortgage payments would work out at around 800 Euro, totaling 9.600 Euro per annum.
Statistics available from people that already have rental villas in Northern Cyprus show that you are able to let out your villa over an average of ten months per year. The average monthly rental earnings for a similar villa in Northern Cyprus equates to 2.600 Euro in the high season and 1.500 Euro in the low season.
To best thing to do now is get out you calculator and start to work out just how much rental income can be generated from a villa in Northern Cyprus. With an average 6 month high season and 4 month low season rental income you would total up a staggering 21.600 Euro annual gross profit. To see what is exactly left in your pocket, you just deduct the 9.600 Euro mortgage payments and about 1.000 Euro fees in property management. My calculator now shows 11.000 Euro of net profit in rental income for a “Buy to Let” villa in Northern Cyprus. Sounds interesting?