WHO STEVE & ANITA TATTERSHALL
WHEN JANUARY 2005 & AUGUST 2006
WHERE KOTOR BAY, MONTENEGRO
WHAT STONE-BUILT APARTMENTS
WHY INVESTMENT/PERSONAL USE
CASE STUDY, 02


IT’S BEEN A MAD FEW YEARS FOR
LITTLE MONTENEGRO, WHICH HAS
BEEN PROPELLED FROM Z-LIST
STATUS TO SUPERSTAR OF THE
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY
WORLD.  SARAH HUTCHINGS CATCHES
UP WITH ONE COUPLE THAT
CAN DEFINITELY SAY THEY’VE
DONE THE FULL MONTE!

Steve Tattershall's love affair with buying abroad
only started a couple of years ago, but he's
certainly made up for lost time: since January
2005, along with his wife Anita, he has bought
land in Bulgaria, a property in Morocco and
three apartments in Montenegro!

Finding themselves with quite a large amount of
disposable income at the start of 2005, Steve, 43,
and Anita, 37, from Dorset, decided that they didn't
want to put the money into pension schemes in the
UK; they wanted to invest it in property. But with
property at home so expensive, they saw buying
abroad as the ideal solution.
Steve then did what any potential buyer or investor
should - a serious amount of research.
"I was really keen on buying in Bulgaria at the
start," says Steve, "so in January 2005 we went
out there to Bansko. We'd heard it was a hotspot but it
was such a trek from Sofia, on unbelievably bad
roads, and didn't have the atmosphere we were
looking for compared to other ski resorts. There was
also huge overdevelopment going on, and I felt that if
we bought a property we'd never sell it."