Germans Fleeing Migrant Crime
The Lake Balaton region is full of Germans who have moved here for all sorts of reasons, but a local real estate agent told us the biggest reason is migrant crime in Germany.
"At the moment our clients are 80 percent German," Hungarian Real Estate Agent László Kozma told us, "And the main reason is the immigration problem in Germany."
Kozma says the number of Germans moving to Lake Balaton spiked immediately after Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed over a million mostly Muslim asylum seekers into Germany in 2015, while Hungary was turned migrants away.
"Yes, yes, yes, this is the reason," Kozma says. "They want to escape to Hungary and live here permanently."
They include Germans like Gerhardt Boehm, who told us he would never move back. He feels safe in Hungary.
Kozma says there currently are not enough properties in the area for all the German buyers.