Yes,buy a resale with title deeds that is at least five years old.Any major problems will have surfaced by then.Oh,and don't forget to check out for your neighbours barking dogs.

Yes,buy a resale with title deeds that is at least five years old.Any major problems will have surfaced by then.Oh,and don't forget to check out for your neighbours barking dogs.

Sound advice...

...except that most of the properties affected in Pissouri are ~30 years old and suffered no issues whatsoever until ~5 years ago.

What year were those properties built ?
And who were the builders ?

I would question the actual lifespan of many of the houses built in Cyprus recently- some of the rebar oxidation I've seen doesn't bode well for many building in Cyprus (lack of damp proofing and poor building practice is the cause of most of it )

I'm not suggesting the Pissouri ones are suffering from that, I'm talking about a lot of the stuff built by all the builders in the last 20 years. Failure to waterproof balconies and terraces causes all sorts or problems

So it may indeed be that case that after 5 years other problems will start to develop as the re bar rusts ?

https://degradationandstuff.wordpress.c ... -concrete/

Anyone know if their re bar is stainless steel or galvanised ?

From the above link " The first is to use stainless steel rebar because it is much more resistant to corrosion, a second alternative is to use galvanized steel because this way the zinc act as sacrificial metal protecting the steel and finally increase the thickness of the concrete and make it more dense and impermeable"

" The first is to use stainless steel rebar because it is much more resistant to corrosion, a second alternative is to use galvanized steel because this way the zinc act as sacrificial metal protecting the steel and finally increase the thickness of the concrete and make it more dense and impermeable"