Not just British families, but ANYONE who wants to buy property in Goa has to go through excruciating bureaucratic processes to complete a fairly simple transaction. The process if everything is in order, can take over one year ! I dont want to take the bandwidth to describe the lengthy process, frustration and obvious inducement to give a bribe that I endured to get a fairly straightforward transaction taken care of. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to describe the months long process that I endured. The established processes create the ideal climate for unscrupulous middlemen to hoodwink the innocent property buyers, cut corners, give bribes etc. to get a transaction done and despite all this the end result may not meet the test of law. The whole process is so mind boggling that I could write a book about it. I still feel that many if not all "foreigners" do not perpetrate these spurious real estate transactions but are taken advantage of and are the victims. So before we throw rocks at foreigners in all fairness, lets examine both sides of the issue.
