In a moment of madness at the beginning of last year I added up how much money we’d spent in rent since we’d come to Denmark. After a quick trip to Rigshospitalet for some critical coronary care, we decided it was time for us to check out the real estate market in Copenhagen.
Fortunately for us it was right down. Unfortunately for me, job security didn’t seem quite so positive. But, as we had decided to stay longer – indeed we had already overstayed our original plan by a year, we figured we would risk taking the plunge.
And so a most unusual process began.
In Australia anyone can buy property. So much so that most of the crème de real estate is owned by exceedingly rich, dreaded…foreigners!
In Denmark, a land not backwards in coming forward as far as rules and regulations go New in Denmark , aliens must apply to this place: Justiceministeriet for permission to buy a property.
As any self-respecting and law-abiding visiting alien would do, I rang justiceministeriet, expecting this call to be the first of many long, convoluted and frustrating conversations to the relative body who would, over the many months of squabbling ahead, finally become as close as kin. So I was quite surprised when I was given the go ahead to find a place during a conversation that lasted all of 83 seconds.
Next hurdles: Find a nice bank. Find a nice flat.
3 comments:
Sounds exciting! And, I am quite happy you've extended your stay :)
I, for one, think the new place is AWESOME!! Especially since there is a guest room for me to stay in now! :-)
*nods*
90% of the time it's more economically sound to buy than to rent. Rent is just poof out the window, really.
(And I thought there were only nationality restrictions on summerhouses?)
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