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Signs of recovery in overseas sales

Efforts to promote Cyprus into new markets seem to be paying dividends as the number of properties bought by non-Cypriots jumped in November although some have complained of paying grossly inflated prices.

Only sick minds could have thought up property tax

Although the troika proposed that property taxes should raise €20 million/annum, the government drafted a bill that would raise ten times that figure according to some calculations.

Decline in property sales slows

Although the number of properties being sold in Cyprus continues to fall, sales in Paphos and Larnaca increased in November and the overall rate of decline is the lowest in recent months.

Nonperforming loans at €23 billion

Confidential information from the Central Bank released by StockWatch today puts the level of non-performing loans of the domestic banks at €23 billion requiring several billions more to recapitalise them.

Calls to change property tax provisions

MPs have urged the government to look again at the bill to increase Immovable Property Tax following warnings that the tax hike will drive the island's economy deeper into recession.

Cyprus bailout terms call for title deed delay reduction

Will a reduction in the backlog of Title Deeds to less than 2,000 of cases pending for more than one year, as required by Cyprus' bailout terms, resolve the Title Deed problem once and for all?

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