Introductions - Please introduce yourself.

[j4hurghada]

hi Lisa,
welcome should be near completion have you seen sister site in DP1/2 total properties site.

Welcome anyway hope thing go well for you.

Jayne

[j4hurghada]

Egypt property - Overseas Property Investment Forum - The Totally Property Overseas Real Estate Forum

[Malak]

It seems that everyone is leaving the UK for Hurghada, property business's must be doing exceptionally well there! Nick.... looks like you will have a booming business. Good Luck to everyone.

[Nick Pendrell]

Thanks for the kind words, Malak.

I must admit that I kind of cheated. I spent 9 months studying patterns of property prices in emerging markets and all of the signs that I came up with told me that Egypt was just at the point where it was going to go crazy. Luckily I don't have any ties to anywhere and so I'm free to move wherever and whenever I like. I also suffer from terrible wanderlust.

I'm just glad that my research came up with Hurghada rather than Bucharest, which would probably have been the case had I done my research a year earlier. Hurghada is much nicer!

[CMChris]

Hi everyone
I'm married with 3 girls <groan> 23,21 and 19, and my hubby is a scuba freak. So after he'd been to the Dive show last yr and came back (thanks to my eldest) with brochures for property in Sahl Hasheesh I put on my detective hat and made inquiries. The result of which was us buying a 3bed appartment in the Sunset Pearl developement. My girls obviously think it's a fantastic idea, free hols with their friends (I don't think!) and for us it means I can get to practise my underwater photography and HE can scuba himself silly. Don't think we will move over permanently, having a large number of beasties that I couldn't leave behind. I've always loved the Egyptian history so having a base there means I can explore some more

[j4hurghada]

Hi Chris,
nice to see someone new, When is your property finished? have you been out to hurghada to have alook?

all the best with your new home from home

jayne

[CMChris]

I'm not exactly new, been lurking on the other Egypt forum lol. We're hoping its going to be finished end of the year but if not no probs. I was in El Gouna August last year on a diving trip but sadly we ran out of time to go visit Sahl Hasheesh. BUT fingers crossed we'll be going over in the Easter hols to have a look. I have to juggle animal care with my girls to let me have 'time off' so it can be tricky to get away. Now I can't wait!!!!

[j4hurghada]

the pictures of sahl hasheesh look really good on the other site we are going to visit it when over in april i want to know how they are getting on with the city under the sea they are building.

[CMChris]

So do I! It will be interesting to watch over time how the coral builds up and the fish moving in. Doesn't seem to be much info coming through on the sunken city, which is a shame.

[lsab]

Hi everyone, I've just found this forum after spending far too many months reading all the posts on totally property and getting no housework done. I'll now have to read what's going on here and leave the housework for another year! Anyway, I'm English, a muslim convert, married to my Egyptian husband for 18 years and we have a 15 year old son, who naturally knows everything there is to know about everything!! (as opposed to his mother who knows nothing about anything!). We live in Bahrain at the moment and have done for the last 4 years (we've also lived in Saudi and Kuwait) but when hubbie retires in about 5 years time, we'll move to Egypt though not sure where yet. We're right at the start of buying an appartment in the Regency Beach development - for investment only with a view to working our way up to a villa. I must say I'd always had a bit of a downer about having to live in Egypt, basically because I hate city life and we've always stayed in Cairo, and I hate the sun!! Having said that the members of the totally property forum are really starting to change my mind and my husband has reassured me that as long as we end up in Egypt it doesn't have to be Cairo! I have an English friend who teaches at the International School in El Gouna and another who's lived in Cairo for many years so I get lots of info from them too.