SHOT LIST 1. Wide of Croatian coast line 2. Various small fishing boats 3. Wide of Croatian costal town 4. Various traditional buildings in a Croatian village 5. Wide of Visnjan-Istria town 6. Croatia Property Services shop window 7. Various set ups of Peter Ellis 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Ellis, Managing Director, Croatia Property Services, town Visnjan, Croatia: "They are looking for a sort of value that they no longer get in Spain, Italy and South of France. When they come here, most of them are coming for the first time, and they are absolutely astonished what their money will buy down here". 9. Various property ads 10. Various shots of abandoned stone houses in country side 11.SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Ellis, Managing Director, Croatia Property Services, town Visnjan, Croatia: "The building that we are looking at the moment is near 60,000 euros (76, 110 U.S. Dollars) in, UK terms no more then 40,000 pounds (74 884 U.S. dollars) . It would cost something like further 60-70, 000 euros (76, 110 - 88, 795 U.S. Dollars) to rebuild it. So, you are looking at 130-140,000 euros (164 905 - 177 590 U.S. Dollars). And when that is complete, the value of it in that stage is going to be 180-190,000 Euro (228 330 - 241 015 U.S. Dollars) and with a lot of future gains to look forward to, because of views like this on the top of hill are not very easy to come by and this is a very special location". 12. Various of run down buildings 13. Wide of Heyward family house. 14. Set up of Shirley Heyward sitting on the porch 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirley Heyward, UK resident of Visnjan : "It was very dilapidated, basically just the outside walls were okay. There was no terrace, the floors had started to crumble, and the roof had to be replaced. So it was just a shell really that we bought". 16. Various of Shirley's house 17. Wide of vineyard 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirley Heyward, UK resident of Visnjan : "Bureaucracy is quite difficult to deal with, because we are not used to having so much. In England it has become so much free and easy. But I felt that bureaucracy (here) actually protects people quite a lot from many criminal activities, so we did feel very safe buying property here". 19. Various of Peter Ellis with his client from Scotland on a new building site 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Ellis, Managing Director, Croatia Property Services, Visnjan, Croatia: "We are seeing, particularly with stone houses raises over 30% per year. We are anticipating that in 12 months immediately before we are going in to EU that that raise will increase more sharply". 21. Various shots of villa with a pool 22. Wide of new developments 23. Car tracking shot of centre of town Visnjan 24. Wide of local government building 25. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Marino Baldini, Mayor of Visnjan "We have to accept the fact that a new architecture and new tourist resorts are coming here, but their style must be adapted to the typical landscape of our region. Now we have a unique opportunity to do so, especially in rural areas". 26. Various of local market 26. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Marija Jozic, Porec resident "I think that people from the west have much more money that we do. That's the reason why our traditional stone houses in Istria are probably a very good investment for them". 28. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Borka Bozic, Porec resident "When our country gets in to the European Union, I believe that property prices will increase drastically. We can expect a 5000 Euros (6,372 US Dollars)for a square metre". 29. Wide of market place 30. Various of Croatian village 31. Various of new motorway 32. Wide of Croatian coastline LEAD IN : VOICE OVER: Croatia hopes to join the EU soon after 2010. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a93473d06bb4765afbabb032d1c9e7c5 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 23 Jul 2015
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