Mud brick built house with kitchen, basic bathroom and lounge downstairs and 2 bedrooms upstairs. Requires renovation - re-wiring, plastering both internally and externally and decoration as well as new bathroom appliances. Comes with plot of 1500sqm and additional building originally used as mini market. At base of Balkan mountains and lovely views. Large village with several shops including small supermarket, DIY store and there is doctors, dentists, post office, restuarant and bars. Only 20 minutes drive from Kazanlak. Reduced for quick sale - offers around 6,500 Euros

Fantastic little house in a rural village only 30 minutes into city. On the edge of the village, close to village shop and bus stop. There is a small plot in front of the house with vines and fruit trees and then behind the house there are a few small barns and then a huge field. The actual house is a good solid structure with a large hall and then a large room on the left and another on the right and a kitchen. The house could easily be turned into a lovely one bedroomed house. Requires a septic tank building, internal bathroom, replacement of floor in one room, small roof repairs around chimney and pro

This is a lovely 2 bedroomed house situated in a quiet village about 19km off the main road from Stara Zagora through to Plovdiv and Sofia (Chirpan road). It is perched on a small hill with good views over surrounding fields yet only a 2 minute walk from train station. The train station is a main junction and so you can pretty much get the train to anywhere in Bulgaria from here. There is a regular bus service to Stara Zagora also. It is about a 30 minute drive from the city, and the road has recently been resurfaced although you should still expect the odd pot hole in places and about 20 minutes on the train.

1. Small bungalow with 2 large rooms, central hall and small kitchen with sink and various small outbuildings, garden in front with fruit trees and grape vines and field of 2000sqm behind. Quiet location and ideal as a small holiday home or for someone wanting to run a smallholding or keep horses. Requires renovation - septic tank, internal bathroom and small roof repairs around chimney. Only 30 minutes from Stara Zagora city centre. Offers around 6,000 Euros 2. Good solid stone and red brick house with 2 rooms and old conservatory downstairs and 2 bedrooms and smaller third bedroom, ideal f

I have travelled from Bulgaria to France a couple of times with my dogs and back again. I have done the 'over land route', taking the ferry from Vidin across the Danube and then through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Italy to France and also travelling south to Greece, across mainland Greece and ferry from Igoumenista to Ancona and then across the top of the 'leg of Italy' and following the Mediterranean coast into France, past Monaco. Personally, I much prefer the route via Greece (although depending on where you were heading this could prove a longer journey), but the brand new motorway across Greece

Having been involved in Bulgarian property for close to 5 years and having been contacted by several people who bought on eBay and who then faced various issues with their purchase, please be very careful before bidding on any property on eBay. A quick search on eBay for property for sale gives you hundreds, if not thousands of Bulgarian properties for sale. At the time of writing of this report (15th November 2009), there is over 58,000 residential overseas listings and at least 2000 of those are situated in Bulgaria. The majority of these are classified listings, where you can simply contact the seller to ex

Here are two bargains that have been listed on TheTravelBug as private listings: Very Cheap House with Internal Plumbing Situated in a village around 11km from the town of Lom and 10km from the Danube, this is a small 3 room brick built house in need of serious renovation (hence the very low price). As well as the main house, there is a cellar and a summer kitchen with a basic bathroom. The plot is 500sqm with a well for irrigation. There is electric and water available. The house requires roof repairs, new windows and doors, external plastering and re-wiring and plumbing and complete internal decorati

I have now spent the last 2 months cleaning up the mess left behind by the last lot of Bulgarian builders. It seems they have never heard of masking tape and all the windows had paint clarted all over the frames and speckles all over the actual glass, where they had sprayed the external paint onto the render and never bothered to cover the windows. The actual paint work inside the house left a lot of be desired as well. Some patches had been painted in an entirely different colour while the paint either was slopped all over the skirting boards or stopped several centimetres above. All the showers require se

The International Law Partnership, headed by John Howell, is closing its doors citing the economic climate and the fact that many of its clients, developers in Bulgaria, are going bust and therefore not paying their bills. Started in 1979, the firm entered international property law work in 1986 and became very involved in property development issues in Bulgaria. However, in recent times, there has been some disquiet on certain forums about the fees charged and the work done, most notably with regard to disgruntled clients of the former developer and agent, Bulgarian Dreams. The International Law Partner

Renting for a few months is a great way of experiencing life in Bulgaria without committing yourself fully to a way of life that may not suit you or may not be as expected. If you are considering buying in Bulgaria with a view to moving there permanently, I would suggest renting for a minimum of 12 months so that you experience the hot summers and the cold winters and it gives you the chance to check your finances will be able to cope. I recently had tenants move out of one of my places without notice and leaving behind large bills because they found that Bulgaria was not the dirt cheap place many expect it to be