The first thing we learnt when looking to buy a property in Morocco was not to consider anything that wasn't finished. The picture above was taken last month of a deveopment at Tamagroute we were considring in autumn 2007. We were taken to the site and assured that the ground would be broken the next month after Eid. In fact the ground was only broken last autumn and as you can see progress has not been great.
Similarly the house near us which we watched being built las year has still not been finished out,let or sold but they are starting another next to it.
As houses as there is still an islamic aversion to even the new halal mortgages and are therfore often bought for cash and completed as and when there are funds available there seems to be an acceptance of delay that we don't have in Britain where houses have to be finished to a standard to be mortgageable. Our friends who are building a house to the north of town assured us last May that they would have moved in when we returned in September and then gave us the same assurance this May. We wait to see.
Sometimes this piecemeal building works against itself. There is a new development just outside town which was making good progress last autumn staring with the mosque.
We watched the development with interest last autumn and they were tiling the roof with green tiles. When we returned in May progress had ceased and the tiles were now slipping and and would have to be relaid.
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