Translator's Blog

Almost daily I receive requests: "How can I get in touch with a realtor in Russia who will market my international property(ies) there to Russian buyers?"  Well, "on the Internet" will be the general answer, but if you ask for my advice then I have a little problem here - how can I recommend a re...

This time I performed a search in Russian Internet for "Real estate in Panama", in Russian of course, to see what Panama offers to Russian buyers in their own language. The first 10 results in the search are the following: #1. A Panama's realtor with many listings, photos, articles on Panama real...

This time I performed a search in Russian Internet for "Real estate in Canada", in Russian of course, to see what Canadian cities are offered to Russian buyers in their own language. The first 10 results in the search are the following: #1. A Canadian immigration lawyer. Buying real estate in Can...

This time I performed a search in Russian Internet for "Real estate in the USA", in Russian of course, to see what USA cities are offered to Russian buyers in their own language. The first 10 results in the search are the following: #1. A Russian realtor, works with real estate in any USA city as...

This time I performed a search in Russian Internet for "Florida real estate", in Russian of course, to see what's offered in the sun-shine state to Russian buyers in their own language. The first 10 results in the search are the following: #1. An investment company. Pre-construction in Florida. S...

I performed a search in the most popular Russian Internet search engine Yandex for "condo-hotel" (in Russian of course) - to see what is offered to Russian buyers in Russian. Here are the first 10 websites that have appeared in the search. #1. The domain seems to be bought by one of American FSBO...

I receive the question "How Can I Reach Russian Buyers?" daily. I'm posting my general answer here too: INTERNET is the easiest, fastest and cheapest media nowadays.   The only thing is: as Americans search English Internet in English, the same way Russians search Russian Internet in Russian. Rus...

Here's another article's translation on the topic: "Why Russians buy foreign real estate?" from the Russian analytic portal http://www.irn.ru/review/foreign/   Two major reasons: to live in and to invest.   Investing is for those who have extra money and want to save it from inflation and grow in...

The Russian real estate portal http://www.irn.ru/review/foreign/ offers articles and reports on foreign real estate for Russians.   I'll translate for you some parts of the article "Who and why buy real estate abroad?" in a nutshell here. It says:   "Purchasing real estate abroad became a usual t...

Q. Is it obvious that buyers rule the market now? A. Yes     Q. Where to get more buyers then? A. Where the money is now     Q. Where is the money now? A. In Russia     Q. How to reach Russian buyers? A. Through Russian Internet     Q. In what language? A. In Russian. Russians are the same self-s...