zdrasti...

and thank you for such a prompt reply...

I employed an advocate who didnt speak English only to facilitate the transaction.
I met him through a, now former, business associate, (he was well known to her and did all their work) and so my understanding is he wasnt aware there was anything wrong with the purchase as I had previously bought land and there was no reason to question the absence of the house on the deeds, as it seemed, he wanst aware it was a house I was buying and had no sight of the deeds...

I gave power of attorney to the real estate, again you learn from mistakes, as a normal course of events, since it was explained to me this was indeed, normal (plus I was returing to UK before completion, and had missed a deal for this very reason before) ...again I realise only now how naive I was, and the real estate agent most likely purchased the property from owner and sold on again to me ... the two involved both left said estate agent before I returned.

Not speaking or reading bulgarian I only discovered when collecting the deeds the following May by way of sheer luck when a bulgarian was looking at my deeds with a veiw to selling it for me...this trip then was taken up chasing around estate agent, getting no where...

Hence, and my recollection is not perfect, but as you can imagine I have been walked from place to place being advised what is going on and where to sign...but the PoA has clearly allowed this purchase to take place without the scrutiny I should have applied...

So as I touched on, since then I have been back and forth each trip with very limited time so last September an advocate confirmed at the appropriate office that at least , worse scenario, no one else owned the house... But then I had to return and could not contact this advocate for follow up work...

I returned in May of this year to be completely side tracked about not submitting company accounts, employed another advocate...however, circumstances have left me without my usual September trip and again unable to contact an advocate!!!

I found this forum... and thought I would get some suggestions...I realise selling the land is a way forward, but will not get the price I want as it stands now, but do not want to mislead anyone with this house on the land...so it has to be resolved...but i am in Uk, and its near impossible to organise from here ...

I have been told to get the house its appropriate planning permissions, but I have now gone through 3 advocates, a handful of good intentions, dont speak bulgarian and fed up with it all...

apart from that... I like bourgas very much...