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Buying a Flat at a Fair
Gazeta Wyborcza, 23.10.2002


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Several special buses, travelling between different housing estates, more than a thousand of customers who visited both new and already inhabited flats and attended lectures on benefits resulting from choosing a Social Building Association as one’s home builder – all that was the result of a two-day fair, organised by the TBS Kliny-Zacisze S.A. Social Building Association under their "Weekend with the TBS" action.

During ten dozen-minute lectures, the guests were able to learn the rules of the state’s financial support for the TBS monthly rents, they were told under what conditions the state loan can be redeemed, why it is worth to live in a TBS flat, how long it takes to acquire a TBS flat (not longer than half a year), and how a TBS flat can be lost, sold, or inherited. The event was also attended by representatives of the LG Petro Bank S.A., which specially prepared their new product in the form of participation share loans. That means it is possible to obtain a TBS flat even if one has not enough resources available at the moment.

"The TBS Associations have not enjoyed a good press recently," believes Mr. Wojciech Lorys, President of Buma System S.A., the company which constructed housing estates for the TBS Kliny-Zacisze S.A. Social Building Association. This has resulted from the policy of the state, which suspended granting loans to the Associations, while the media put a blame just on the Associations in the first instance. But the Associations were not guilty since their loan applications were not considered by the state-owned Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. TBS Kliny-Zacisze S.A. Social Building Association was the first one in the Małopolska region to obtain this year a loan from the National Housing Fund, and soon is going to complete more than 200 new flats.

There was an opinion among the fair visitors that the TBS offers exceptionally well coincided with the judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal concerning rents in private tenement buildings. The TBS system allows to escape from the expected increase of those rents and to exchange old and large flats for cheaper and smaller ones, but with a modern standard.

Flats as Commodities
Are flats things that can be sold at a fair?

Katarzyna Lula, Deputy President of TBS Kliny-Zacisze S.A. Social Building Association: Yes, flats are now same products like any other, to which also different selling and marketing techniques apply. Except for social dwellings that are assigned, today all homes are either purchased, or rented. We are offering last available flats in the "Halszki" housing estate in the district of Kurdwanów, as well as presenting a full offer of flats, ranging from 26 to 93 m2 in the "Pod Klombami" estate close to Rydygiera Street.

Are those flats particular in any respect?
Yes, they are. They are located in buildings, which are constructed under the Milokum technology. This is a technology that enables to construct a housing estate in an exceptionally short time. Also other advantages of that technology will highly be prized by future tenants. First of all, such flats are exceptionally energy-saving, thus their heating costs will be lower. In addition, those flats have a very good sound insulation and hence are more comfortable.

Bank Loan Novelty
A novelty has appeared on the housing market: a participation share loan. Why is it so attractive?

Anna Wierzchucka, Loan Advisor of LG Petro Bank S.A.: First of all, such a loan can be contracted up to 100% of the participation share amount. Therefore, it is not required to have any cash in hand at the moment. Collateral on the sharer’s property is sufficient, e.g. on a real estate, a flat or even an ownership title to a flat. The loan can be contracted jointly by the sharer and by the tenant, and can also be repaid jointly afterwards, or be repaid solely by the tenant. However, joint incomes of both sides are considered when contracting the loan. Loans can be contracted in four different currencies: in Polish zlotys, euros, US dollars and Swiss francs. An earlier loan repayment shall not involve any additional fees.

And what about the interest rate?
It depends on the volume of contribution in cash, paid by the sharer. A lower loan means a lower interest rate. The lowest interest rates, depending on the currency, range from 8.99% (Polish zlotys) to 3.49% (Swiss francs).

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