schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 17 hours agoSkyrocketing rents threaten Greece's economic reboundwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down12
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minus-squarecopacetic@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·9 hours agoWhy didn’t the owner raise the price a year ago? Something improved such that now someone is willing to pay the higher price. Why didn’t the owner raise the price even higher? Because nobody would have rented then. Some kind of negotiation happened.
minus-squareJensSpahnpasta@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 hours agoFrom the article: lawyers representing the apartment’s Chinese owners said they planned to raise the rent, which was already 700 euros - nearly Syntihaki’s entire earnings. Great negotiation between everybody! The free market at work!
minus-squareDirtSona@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoThey were raised a year ago too? Thai article is about a period of 5 years.
Why didn’t the owner raise the price a year ago? Something improved such that now someone is willing to pay the higher price.
Why didn’t the owner raise the price even higher? Because nobody would have rented then. Some kind of negotiation happened.
From the article:
Great negotiation between everybody! The free market at work!
They were raised a year ago too? Thai article is about a period of 5 years.