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In any venture, the main thing is to start — to move from fantasies to action
What I started doing: I began studying the websites and Telegram channels of developers, consultants and realtors in Sri Lanka. I wanted to find a partner who'd be interested in me and whose goals and objectives matched mine — ideally Russian-speaking, with a project or money😉
Most Russian-language channels about Sri Lanka are about renting and life on the island, not about development and investment.
Russian-language resources on buying and investing — only a handful. On renting and tourism — an ocean. Serious analytics, real development case studies, market breakdowns — practically zero. An information vacuum, which in itself tells you how early a stage this market is at for Russian-speaking investors. Compared to Bali and Phuket — a desert
In the end I sent maybe a dozen messages, and 3–4 people replied🙈
And then I happened to stumble upon Tranio https://tranio.com/, the largest international broker for Russian-speaking clients — they were selling some apartments in Sri Lanka on their website. And I remembered that I knew someone there — Pasha Pozin. We worked together at an insurance broker back in 2012, after which he went into real estate; we keep in touch now and then, and I knew he worked at Tranio (he now heads the sales department at Strana Development, one of Russia's top 10 developers)
I called him. Pasha said straight away that they don't do Sri Lanka. But he offered to ask his founders, in case someone knew someone.
Mikhail Bulanov - t.me/BulanovRealEstate, one of the founders, advised me to get in touch with Artem Kardash, who lives in Sri Lanka.
I wrote to him. That's how I got to know Artem — here's his channel, by the way https://t.me/ostrov_serendip ⚡️
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Here's some of what I found:
prian.ru - international realtors for overseas property
homesoverseas.ru— an aggregator of agency listings
lankaplanet.ru – a Russian-speaking real estate agency
lankapropertyweb.com — the largest listings aggregator, the local equivalent of Cian
Most Russian-language channels about Sri Lanka are about renting and life on the island, not about development and investment.
Russian-language resources on buying and investing — only a handful. On renting and tourism — an ocean. Serious analytics, real development case studies, market breakdowns — practically zero. An information vacuum, which in itself tells you how early a stage this market is at for Russian-speaking investors. Compared to Bali and Phuket — a desert
In the end I sent maybe a dozen messages, and 3–4 people replied🙈
And then I happened to stumble upon Tranio https://tranio.com/, the largest international broker for Russian-speaking clients — they were selling some apartments in Sri Lanka on their website. And I remembered that I knew someone there — Pasha Pozin. We worked together at an insurance broker back in 2012, after which he went into real estate; we keep in touch now and then, and I knew he worked at Tranio (he now heads the sales department at Strana Development, one of Russia's top 10 developers)
I called him. Pasha said straight away that they don't do Sri Lanka. But he offered to ask his founders, in case someone knew someone.
Mikhail Bulanov - t.me/BulanovRealEstate, one of the founders, advised me to get in touch with Artem Kardash, who lives in Sri Lanka.
I wrote to him. That's how I got to know Artem — here's his channel, by the way https://t.me/ostrov_serendip ⚡️