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Foreclosures at actual property market rates to start in a month

Apartments, plots of land, stores and office buildings belonging to people or businesses with debts to the tax authorities will soon be auctioned at prices below those used for tax purposes ("objective values") as the law dictates foreclosure sales at market rates instead of objective values, as in the case of debts to banks.

Athens says to launch online foreclosures on November 29

Athens's intention to begin online foreclosures on November 29 was reiterated at a meeting between government officials and the technical experts of the country's creditors in the Greek capital.

Sources said there was an effort made to change the bad atmosphere created in the last few weeks due to the delay in launching the online auction platform.

Foreclosures' target seems unattainable

Foreclosures, which have been practically frozen for the last eight years, represent the credit system's Achilles' heel. The impact from the paralysis of the auction system is already obvious in banks' financial results on the reduction of nonperforming loans and threatens to undermine the target set for containing nonperforming exposures (NPEs).

Notaries protest opposition of foreclosures on million-euro properties

The union representing notaries in Athens, Piraeus, the Aegean and Dodecanese islands on Friday protested against a recent spate of initiatives by activists opposing foreclosures on homes, noting that the auctions in question related to people owing millions of euros.

Man seriously injured in fight at Patra migrant squat

Doctors in the western port city of Patra on Thursday were trying to save a man who was stabbed during a brawl at a migrant squat in a former factory.

The brawl reportedly broke out at around 9.30 a.m. between rival migrant groups in the former AVEX factory at Patra port, where hundreds of undocumented migrants are squatting in the hopes of slipping onto a ferryboat to Italy.

28 People Died in Prison Revolt in Acapulco

t least 28 prisoners died and 3 were injured during an uprising in a Mexico prison. The altercations between different groups started in the center for social rehabilitation in the morning, reported by Reuters.

The reason for the conflicts is the constant struggle for power and competition between rival gangs inside the prison.

Police says gang's loot at over 50 mln euros

Police said on Monday that a Roma gang it began unraveling in November had made more than 50 million euros from its criminal activities.

According to reports, a police raid on a house last Friday in Halandri, northern Athens, yielded more than 700 kilos worth of jewelry, precious stones and gold items worth more than half a million euros. Officers also found 105,000 euros in cash.

Vandals smash offices to protest foreclosures

A group of masked assailants Thursday smashed the windows of an office building in the southern Athens neighborhood of Kallithea.

The office is being used by a company that expressed interest in taking part in the electronic auction of homes foreclosed upon due to their original residents being unable to make payments.

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