Experience Of a First Time Buyer by Tony Cassar Darien

The range of first time buyers in Malta is much wider than I had first thought it out to be. It comprises of couples who have decided to set up a family, and are seeking a place where to live, right down to the regular long-established families who feel that the time has come to make the leap from renting a place to buying property in Malta and owning it.

Together with her partner, Ms Jane Caruana, who has just acquired her very first property for sale in Malta, has kindly agreed to talk to me about her experience about purchasing a property in Malta from the property market. 

Ms Jane Caruana is 30 years of age and together with her partner who is a year older, they bought a property for sale in Malta as a first-time buyer. She works as a teacher while her partner works in a printing press. The couple are serious, hardworking and happy but they are not contemplating a formal marriage. 

When we met, Jane did most of the talking and her conversation was so fresh and honest that I opted to keep it flowing without undue interference from my side. This is how she explained her reasons for her first ever home purchase.

“I had been saving money for a number of working years. I am now 30 years of age, and I feel it is the right time to move out of my parents’ house and invest in a property of my own,” she told me, adding, perhaps in order to make her message clearer, “You may say it was the result of a combination involving a lifestyle necessity, coupled with the need to make some kind of solid investment.”