Almost every day a Romanian buys a house in Hungary, Digi 24 reports. The price varies between 2,500 and 10,000 euros and is ten times lower than in Romania.

"The cheapest house I sold last year cost €5,000, in Dumbigas, five kilometers from the border.

Located in the city center, 100 square meters, three rooms and 4000 square meters of land.

Currently, the cheapest house we have in our portfolio is for 9,000 euros, about seven kilometers from Variashu Mik (a town in Arad, located on the border - b.r.), with three rooms, utilities and land of 1,500 square meters," says Bogdan Holokan, a real estate agent in the Banat region.

At least 300 houses in Hungarian border towns were sold to Romanians last year, mainly from Arad and Timisoara.

"They say the cost of housing has made them move abroad, but also the cost of living, because utility bills there are half of what they are here," the realtor explains.

The only big problem is the lack of work.

Therefore, most Romanians who choose to become property owners in Hungary drive about an hour and a half to go to work in their homeland. 

Census data from 2011 shows that there is a community of approximately 36,000 Romanians in Hungary.

Most of them are in settlements near the border with Romania.

In the town of Gyula, for example, adjacent to the town of Vrshand in Arad, about 2,000 Romanians live, and in Batania - about 1,000 Romanians, three times more than in 2007, adds BTA.

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