The phone of Agnes Marciniak-Kostrzewa is incessantly ringing. Even though she has been assisting Poles in purchasing homes on Spain’s southern coastlines for 25 years, she says the last several months have been “really crazy.”
There are several reasons why the Mediterranean shore can be preferred over the Baltic coast. Poles are wealthier than they have ever been almost thirty years after communism fell. Many of the people who founded their enterprises in the early 1990s are now considering retirement. Furthermore, the pandemic’s introduction of remote employment has let many people to choose warmer locales and a more nomadic lifestyle.
Realtors, however, told CNN that their clients are now using the war Russia is waging in Ukraine and their concern that the situation might escalate as an additional justification.
“I encountered two waves of steadily rising interest in real estate acquisitions. The first took place in February 2022, right after the conflict started. The subsequent one dates back to February 2024. said Marciniak-Kostrzewa.
The atmosphere has grown gloomier in recent weeks as Russia looks to consolidate its recent military victories by strafing Ukraine’s cities with airstrikes and scanning the front lines for potential weak points. This week, President Volodomyr Zelensky issued a warning, stating that Ukraine “will lose the war” if the US Congress does not approve military assistance.
Furthermore, elsewhere on Europe’s eastern flank, nervousness is being caused by remarks made by well-known Westerners. In February, former US President Donald Trump declared that he would support Russia in doing “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO member who is delinquent in their payments. Prime Minister of Poland, Europe is living in a “pre-war era,” as Donald Tusk said last month.
We received an unknown number of calls following Trump’s remarks and Tusk’s interview inquiring about whether they might come within three days to purchase the home and how long the entire process would take to obtain the key.
