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Shkruar nga Diplomatico | Pamfleti.net
Housing prices have doubled in the Balkans not because of economic development, but because behind every apartment lies a bag of dirty money, a stolen tender, or international drug trafficking laundered through building permits...
In the Balkans, concrete is no longer just a building material. It is currency, it is a passport, it is a launderette for dirty money. In Serbia and Albania, the galloping rise in housing prices is no longer related to the real market, nor to the well-being of citizens, but to the dynamics of bargains that are not kept in bank balances, but in bags and suitcases.
In Belgrade, housing prices have doubled in the last six years. If in 2019 a square meter in an apartment in a good area cost 1,200 euros, today that price has exceeded 2,300 euros. And not because salaries have increased, they barely move, but because Belgrade has turned into a big washing machine for anonymous capital.
The Belgrade Waterfront project is the symbol of this era: luxury towers, empty apartments, investors appearing out of nowhere. The demand for housing is high, but not because citizens want to live better, but because someone needs to launder money quickly through a construction contract.
We find the same symptoms in Albania, only here the disease is more advanced. Tirana has become a city where the price of housing has crossed the threshold of absurdity: over 2,500 euros per square meter in the center and around 1,500 in the suburbs. And while the average salary is below 500 euros, thousands of new apartments are built every year that no one buys to live in, but to hide money. This is the Albanian paradox: a market full of unsold offers, but with constantly increasing prices. Not even the logic of the market explains this; only the logic of money laundering.
In both countries, this phenomenon has become a system. Laws are ineffective, banks are silent, institutions are corrupt or powerless. Neither in Belgrade nor in Tirana is there real transparency about the origin of the capital that finances construction. Permits are obtained without asking the community, projects are launched without competition and investments are made beyond any economic norm. Behind every building there is a story that no one dares to investigate: a drug trafficking, an inflated tender, an under-the-table agreement.
This artificial increase in property prices is not just an economic issue. It is a looming social crisis. An entire generation is being left out of the housing market, condemned to living on exorbitant rents or leaving the country. Meanwhile, empty apartments are piling up, but no one is asking why. Because they know the answer.
Serbia and Albania are building not to house people, but to hide crime. Real estate has become intangible wealth. And as long as justice does not follow the path of money, this trend will continue, and with it, the gap between those who launder millions and those who cannot afford to buy a room will widen.
We are not dealing with urban development, but with a modern form of state capture. Just as in Serbia a rich facade has been built over a poor reality, in Albania a new Tirana is being prepared for those who do not live here. And this is the drama: our cities are being sold to those who have nothing to lose, and are being closed to those who want a normal life. / Pamphlet
Cfare pastrim parash o legena. Vete i keni transmetuar ne televizionet tuaja që, sllavet e ndyre kane hapur biznese e shesin apartamente ne bregdetin tone ruseve, ukrainasve e serbeve. Ne plazhet tona televizori nuk kap stacionet Shqiptare por vetem sllave. Dikur perdornin zhurmues të mos shikonim RAI e Beogradin e tani nuk shohim stacionet tona. Mirë tha Faik Konica Shqipëri të Kam dhjere...
Ju portalet po ja nxini faqen Rames. Po merreni me kullat aty ku Rama ka rolin e arkitektit qe kur ishte kryetar i bashkise. Nese e mbani mend prishi ca kioska (te shemtuara patjeter, por jo problematike me ambientin), dhe ndertoj katraura betoni. Eshte arkitekt i shkaterrimit te Tiranes kryeqytet me dashje. Eshte njesoj si beri me Lazaratin, qe mbylli nje fshat per te hapur rruge nje shteti te tere te kanabizuar. Ky person vetem per lejet e ndertimit duhet te futet e mos dale me nga burgu. Ku eshte gjithe kjo nevoje ne nje treg me 2 milion banore per kaq shume beton?!?!?!! Nje femije e kupton qe kjo sipermarrje nuk ka lidhje me biznes ndertimi por me lavatrice gjigande ku pastrohen parate e krimit nderkombetar. Vetem Rama se di. Ndaj dhe "Mjaft me" . Zgjati shume shkoni tani paguani mekatet.
Jo i qartë shkrimi nga njera anë thotë se rritja e çmimit është si pasojë e nevojës për zbardhje dhe në kte rast nuk ka blerës ( ofra s’ka lidhje me kêrkesën por me pastrimin ) ose në fakt çmimi është fiktiv dhe shiten më lirë nqs blersi pranon dhe kshu zbardhen paret në fakt ose kërkesa është e lartë dhe çmimi sipas kërkesës dhe ktu nuk flitet për zbardhje por për fitim s’ka rëndesi se ku jeton blersi. Shkurt shkrim i dobët pa analizë finaciare e raport ofre kërkesë po ama helmin e lëshon