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Room With A View; Anybody who's anyone in Europe these days is buying a vacation retreat. And they're not doing it close to home. Think Croatia, Bulgaria or Morocco.

Newsweek International

| August 21, 2006 | Mcguire, Stryker; Adam, Karla; Underhill, William; Power, Ginny | COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Stryker Mcguire (With Karla Adam and William Underhill in London and Ginny Power in Paris)

A year and a half ago, Erich Schmidt had a bright idea. "Why pay other people to rent a house for holidays," he thought, "when I could just buy a place myself?" So it was that the London recruitment consultant ended up with a vacation retreat in Croatia. Embroiled in a war for independence between 1991 and 1995, Croatia and its stunning Adriatic coast have only recently become safe havens for investors like Schmidt. He found a seven-bedroom stone house on the island of Brac for [euro]230,000, a bargain by British standards. Today he would not consider selling it for ...

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