Tens of thousands of property buyers are happy

What a real pleasure it was to read Neil Kennedy’s letter (Sunday Mail November 14) taking the doom-mongering Alan Waring to task.

Of course there have been appalling instances of exceptionally poor and dishonest behaviour by some developers and confidence tricksters – and the Government has done all too little to bring these people to book and to clean up the property scene once and for all.

But Waring and O’Hare from CPAG  and a few others with their frenetic and angst-ridden approach promote a very unfortunate impression.  They would have uninformed people believe that there are no examples in Cyprus of good practice and happy outcomes, when in truth there are tens of thousands of buyers who have used commonsense, care, professional legal advice which has been sound, to say nothing of establishing a good relationship with a given developer or constructor.  And no, I am not being naive.

The emphasis has been completely skewed with constantly destructive critics giving no credence to the untold number of ventures which have gone along smoothly and steadily, with no hassles, no unpleasantness, and no rip-off tactics.  Moreover, all this aggressive pressure on Government simply sees officials digging their heels in – and as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has written – the UK Government may be sympathetic but considers that the Cypriot Administration must be left to sort its own affairs in its own way and in its own time, however frustrating that may be for some of us living here.

Alan Waring needs to introduce some balance in his rhetoric lest he contributes towards depressing a frail market unfairly and with highly selective reasoning.

 

Clive Turner, Paphos

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