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[00:11:33] Here we are again, good morning, good morning, morning
[00:11:36] update, 20 minutes before our clocks show exactly
[00:11:39] morning, a special good morning to Patra, we saw a very
[00:11:43] nice image a little while ago from the Achaean capital, good morning to
[00:11:47] Giorgos Karafotias, he is watching us from
[00:11:50] Lygourio, Elena is watching us from Chios,
[00:11:53] Christos. As
[00:12:07] well
[00:12:10] as Athanasios Alexopoulos from Syrina
[00:12:13] Arkadias, we see you everywhere Athina Papakosta, everywhere Sotiris
[00:12:17] Kyparissis is celebrating today and thanks us for the
[00:12:20] wishes, may you be well Sotiris, may you be well, thank you
[00:12:24] very much and he tells us. For Samarinas, Sotiris
[00:12:27] Kyparissis, we will try to have a connection, you know Samarinas,
[00:12:30] is the highest
[00:12:34] village in Greece, that's right, Samarinas
[00:12:37] is fantastic, so we will also have a connection, we will pursue that to see
[00:12:41] Samarinas as well. Speaking now of communication, we have
[00:12:45] at your disposal, you will see again, social
[00:12:49] yes, the social media where you can find us, Nikos
[00:12:52] Andritsos on Instagram @ Andritsos as well as on
[00:12:56] Facebook Nikos Andritsos, don't forget the accents, yes
[00:13:00] we should put accents because we often forget them, it's good to
[00:13:03] emphasize them. Athina Papakosta is the account
[00:13:07] on Instagram where you can communicate and connect
[00:13:11] with Athina and of course the email of the show
[00:13:14] is very simple, proini
[00:13:16] enimerosi@sky.gr we also have a second email,
[00:13:20] katangelies@sky.gr, an account which remains
[00:13:23] active throughout the year. You can send
[00:13:27] your messages and your complaints to it in order to open the
[00:13:31] discussion here on Skype and essentially cover the issues that
[00:13:34] concern you, trouble you and create problems for you.
[00:13:38] So this also exists. Now let's
[00:13:41] see some other news. Iro is with us.
[00:13:44] Good morning, good morning. You're going to take us to the region for news from the
[00:13:48] region. Good day. You are very nicely dressed, I really like
[00:13:52] the combination of things. Nice and
[00:14:02] let's not forget our colleagues because as we were saying earlier it's a
[00:14:05] chain, both television and of course radio, we are a
[00:14:09] chain of professionals who all
[00:14:11] together, each in their field, contribute their bit and the result is
[00:14:15] this. Exactly, above all the team. So let's start from Mykonos.
[00:14:19] We will start from Mykonos. The end came to the case of theft of items worth
[00:14:23] 75,000€. as police officers located a
[00:14:26] very expensive Rolex watch and an
[00:14:30] Hermes bag carefully hidden under a rock in an
[00:14:33] outdoor area near the holy church of
[00:14:37] Agios Patapios. The operation was recorded on video, exactly
[00:14:40] what we see on our screens right now, the police officers retrieving the
[00:14:44] very expensive watch from its hiding place. In the case, a
[00:14:47] 34-year-old Greek driver was arrested, who is accused of
[00:14:51] removing the items from a 29-year-old Ukrainian
[00:14:55] tourist. Indeed, indeed, these
[00:14:58] things happened, strange case, of course, which the
[00:15:01] authorities are investigating, let's see what
[00:15:04] happened in Lamia, impressive video, an
[00:15:07] unusual accident occurred in
[00:15:11] Lamia, a new fountain literally,
[00:15:14] Nikos, a van crashed into
[00:15:17] a fire hydrant in the Red Cross park,
[00:15:20] dislodging it and causing a huge jet of water
[00:15:24] as we see. With a height of at least over 7 to
[00:15:27] 8 meters and created an improvised fountain
[00:15:30] as we see. The DEI Lamia
[00:15:33] crew, of course, rushed to the scene and cut
[00:15:36] off the supply.
[00:15:43] The good thing, of course, in this case we must ascertain, because nothing is
[00:15:46] obvious in this country, is that there was a fire
[00:15:50] hydrant and it was working and with very good pressure,
[00:15:54] right? But the problem is that we are ascertaining this for the wrong
[00:15:57] reasons, because Lamia, you know, has three
[00:16:01] beautiful squares, and to go around the city center, you have to
[00:16:04] pass through all three. It's Park, Lao, and
[00:16:08] Freedom squares, if I remember correctly, so
[00:16:11] here, maybe it's an opportunity to think about a fountain next
[00:16:14] time, something good at least, and something working correctly in the
[00:16:18] municipality. Thank you very much,
[00:16:21] good morning, for the information you gave us. And with this
[00:16:25] video, we will go to talk about the real estate market, a
[00:16:29] topic that concerns many, a topic
[00:16:32] that still has many things that can be
[00:16:35] corrected. The driver. In this discussion, the
[00:16:39] president of Pomida will be
[00:16:43] our guide, whom we will welcome. Mr.
[00:16:46] Stratos Paradias, good day to you, good morning to you and to all who are watching us today,
[00:16:49] good morning Mr. President, how are you doing?
[00:16:53] We are doing great, we are at our posts, we have various issues
[00:16:56] to deal with, we come and go,
[00:17:00] and we are always present. What I observe is that
[00:17:04] Pomida does not go on vacation, because emails
[00:17:07] keep coming from you, this communication about the
[00:17:11] issues you deal with, and they are not
[00:17:14] few, right? Because in Greece, there are always news about
[00:17:17] real estate, this time
[00:17:20] for many, for many decades when we started to
[00:17:23] create Pomida, I told my collaborators then when we gathered that
[00:17:27] look, I don't know if we will achieve anything, I don't know if we will make a dent, but
[00:17:31] one thing I can promise you is that we will never
[00:17:34] be bored. Literally.
[00:17:40] And this has been absolutely proven because for private
[00:17:43] property it is the most important asset, the savings of the Greek
[00:17:47] people, the most important thing, and as a great
[00:17:50] Austrian philosopher, Hayek, said, property
[00:17:54] is very important not only for those who have it, but also for those who do not
[00:17:57] have it and want to acquire it. You understand, therefore,
[00:18:00] that there is no aspect of
[00:18:03] public or private life in which real estate is not involved.
[00:18:07] Either as an investment, or as a savings product, or as
[00:18:11] a product of necessity of its use, whether professional or
[00:18:14] residential, and it is always in the news, exactly, and
[00:18:18] we are talking, Mr. Paradias, both for owners and for tenants.
[00:18:22] Now, one of the issues that are in public discussion and keep
[00:18:25] coming up, has to do with closed houses,
[00:18:29] right, with those properties that remain closed, have not been put on the
[00:18:32] market. We all know the pressure that exists in housing and the
[00:18:36] high prices in... in rents and there is this program for
[00:18:40] house renovation, but there are issues around
[00:18:44] this and around closed houses, yes, the goal was for them to enter the game
[00:18:47] and we see them remaining outside. Look, we pointed them out,
[00:18:51] but you know, many times I think, the people who set the
[00:18:54] conditions for citizens' inclusion
[00:18:58] in these programs, perhaps they are more focused on
[00:19:01] how to exclude
[00:19:05] interested parties rather than how to include them. I'm surprised by the
[00:19:09] fact that many, many
[00:19:13] conditions are imposed which effectively exclude those who
[00:19:17] can implement such a program. That is, the specific renovation program
[00:19:20] may foresee a
[00:19:23] generous amount which
[00:19:26] reaches a certain limit for large houses of 120 square meters, but in
[00:19:30] reality, someone who does not have their own money cannot implement
[00:19:34] it. So when you set income criteria,
[00:19:37] in reality you exclude those people who can chip in the remaining
[00:19:41] money and do what they need to do. And in
[00:19:45] this specific case, I must tell you that the reason
[00:19:48] why only 10% of those who participate in the program have vacant
[00:19:52] properties is due to the strict specifications
[00:19:55] provided by this regulation, this program. Let me take
[00:19:58] you back, I will tell you this: Look, at this moment
[00:20:02] we have a wave of protests from
[00:20:05] citizens who acquired the property this year,
[00:20:08] last year, and while their predecessors, whether they inherited
[00:20:12] it from their parents, or it was sold to them, meet the
[00:20:16] conditions, because this house was empty before, it had no
[00:20:19] electricity consumption and all that,
[00:20:23] nevertheless, nevertheless, without the law nowhere providing for it, without the program
[00:20:27] openly stating it anywhere, it seems that the software used
[00:20:30] in these cases cannot
[00:20:33] calculate the time of the
[00:20:35] transferors. The calculation of the time of the
[00:20:39] transferors runs throughout our country's civil law,
[00:20:42] in matters of usufruct, in matters of possession, it is always
[00:20:46] calculated in inheritance matters, the time of the two providers, here it tells you.
[00:20:50] And you got it now, we don't care, even if you had the house for three years, let's say,
[00:20:53] we won't sit around looking to find out what the previous owner did with it. But
[00:20:57] this is wrong, it is a mistake that leaves many people out who could have
[00:21:01] implemented this. You should also keep in mind that this mistake, this
[00:21:05] inability of the system to identify previous owners, has created a very
[00:21:09] serious problem for us regarding the three-year tax exemption for houses
[00:21:12] that were closed for three years. That is, even though
[00:21:15] someone, even though someone had their house closed for one year, and their father
[00:21:19] had it for another two, another three, another five years before, well, without the law saying
[00:21:23] anywhere, without any decision or circular from the tax authorities
[00:21:27] providing for it, well, they cut all these people off, because they say we
[00:21:30] want you to have had it for three years. So this
[00:21:34] leaves people out, of course, with our announcement
[00:21:37] the day before yesterday, we highlighted the general problems, that is, the state has not
[00:21:41] done as much as it should for those who
[00:21:44] want to put their houses on the market.
[00:21:48] We, for example, propose. Not only that a house that has been closed for three years
[00:21:51] can be put on the market with the three-year tax exemption, but also any house that
[00:21:55] for any reason today is unrented, any house
[00:21:59] where someone lives and who leaves to go live in another house, so that
[00:22:03] supply also increases, and I think that this is the desired outcome from all
[00:22:06] sides. Any newly built house that someone finished but it doesn't suit them to go
[00:22:10] and live there, the state should give them this incentive, any house that was just inherited and
[00:22:14] is empty, just bought and is empty, just converted from
[00:22:18] commercial use to residential use, just
[00:22:21] renovated, or houses that belong to legal
[00:22:25] entities, of all kinds, all these should be included there.
[00:22:28] Also, we should have further improvement in tax
[00:22:32] rates and mainly, above all, we should address
[00:22:35] the enormous, endemic problem of uncertainty for every
[00:22:39] owner regarding the actual intentions
[00:22:43] of someone who appears before them and asks to rent their house.
[00:22:47] Be careful,
[00:22:50] for tenants, there is also a small percentage, but very
[00:22:54] active, unfortunately, with clearly antisocial behavior, who
[00:22:57] settle in people's houses from the very beginning, with the very
[00:23:00] beginning plan, with the very beginning intention, not to pay absolutely
[00:23:04] anything. We are not talking about tenants, we are talking about
[00:23:07] delinquent individuals, for whom it is their way of life, to move from
[00:23:11] house to house, not paying absolutely anything, neither rent, nor common charges. So every
[00:23:14] owner should have a way to find
[00:23:18] out what exactly is happening.
[00:23:30] Already, already the Ministry of Finance, the General Secretariat of Private Debt, is
[00:23:34] proceeding with the establishment of a platform which was given the
[00:23:38] task by the independent authority of credit assessment to
[00:23:41] implement it and to issue a rating for every
[00:23:44] transacting party in general throughout the country, for every transacting party. So we are talking
[00:23:48] about, let's say, a rating agency.
[00:23:53] without the registration of any personal
[00:23:56] data, how much money someone has, simply what
[00:24:00] is their, what is their respect, their behavior
[00:24:03] exactly. Yes, this has to
[00:24:06] do with financial institutions and so on. Now,
[00:24:10] because time is pressing, the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, that this
[00:24:13] will not be used for leases, we are not doing anything. Yes, yes,
[00:24:17] yes, to give this to the banks, yes, yes, yes. So,
[00:24:20] so you want this to be extended to leases as well, so that there are
[00:24:24] safeguards for owners. Now, let's go to another
[00:24:28] issue that Pomida has highlighted, and it has to do with those
[00:24:31] properties, Athena, ladies and gentlemen,
[00:24:35] where they have attachments, they have encumbrances, and they have
[00:24:38] attachments from the state, and now
[00:24:42] with the provisions of the Hadjidakis law, very
[00:24:46] recently the relevant law was passed, there can be.
[00:25:02] leaves the situation to expire as it is waiting for the owner to find a
[00:25:05] buyer. When the owner finds a buyer for this property, the
[00:25:09] state says the following: How much are you selling it for? 100,000. Indeed, how much is the
[00:25:13] debt? 100,000. Yes, great. I want all the money. Why should the
[00:25:16] owner rush to do the
[00:25:46] which says the following: If you find...
[00:25:51] your property, I will allow you to, I will lift the seizure, I will allow
[00:25:55] you to sell it, I don't want all the money, I want a percentage of
[00:25:58] it, which percentage will vary, it will be at least
[00:26:01] 25% that it will take. I will vary depending on your tax
[00:26:05] compliance with me, that is, if you submit tax
[00:26:09] declarations, you get enough points, if you are consistent and have tried as
[00:26:12] much as you can to keep the various arrangements you have made, you will still get
[00:26:16] points, if you are generally cooperative with the tax authorities, you will still get
[00:26:20] certain points,
[00:26:23] and a specific decision will be issued and it will reach
[00:26:26] the notary's office and the state will not take 100%, it will take 25, 30,
[00:26:30] 40, 45, 50, in any case, however,
[00:26:34] a significant part will remain for the owner so that the
[00:26:37] sale can proceed. Question, Mr. Paradias, what will
[00:26:41] happen in the case where someone sells their property, for example,
[00:26:45] for 100,000, and a fictitious amount is declared,
[00:26:48] because let's not hide it, these things happen, and declares 50,000,
[00:26:52] for example. This, this is explicitly prohibited by the provision for the following
[00:26:55] reason: because no kind of lifting of
[00:26:59] seizure will be approved if the declared price is not at least.
[00:27:28] who implemented a legislative
[00:27:32] initiative which has no precedent, that is, the Vice President of the government to exercise
[00:27:35] legislative initiative and passed a law with 14 provisions in favor of
[00:27:39] citizens, very important, we have them on our website
[00:27:42] pomida.gr, whoever is interested, there are many
[00:27:44] issues, one third of these provisions concern purely
[00:27:48] property owners, of course we are interested in all the others too, because it facilitates
[00:27:52] the lives of citizens, but there mainly we have a very important
[00:27:56] improvement there, that is, in many cases the presumption of
[00:27:59] state ownership for the possession of
[00:28:02] is lifted and allows people who have legal titles not for the
[00:28:06] 120-130 years that the legislation required until now, but for
[00:28:09] 40 years, for 50, for 30, depending on the
[00:28:12] good faith of each person, whether they have a title or not, it solves, that is,
[00:28:15] problems in urban properties and mainly in rural
[00:28:19] properties, so that the state at some point stops claiming
[00:28:22] everyone and everything and forever. We keep all these,
[00:28:26] thank you very much sir, I thank you, I thank
[00:28:29] you too, good day to you, be well, thank you. Good day to you,
[00:28:33] thank you very much, the housing issue is a very, very big
[00:28:36] issue, whether you are talking about owners, or
[00:28:40] even more so about tenants, because we all know where
[00:28:43] the prices of properties are, and
[00:28:46] of rents, so it is a big one. For a house, let's say,
[00:28:50] 60 square meters, semi- renovated, and not even
[00:28:53] very well, in central areas of Athens, the
[00:28:57] price is soaring. That is, not everyone is a couple,
[00:29:01] there are people who live. Yes, yes, and also, you know, on the one hand there is
[00:29:04] the market and inflation galloping, and there is also the average wage.
[00:29:08] Yes, wages may be increasing, but the issue is that the cost
[00:29:11] of living is also increasing overall. Wages increase, inflation comes, and it's like you haven't received any