What is it with the Spanish and their hotels? Four years ago they built the Azata del Sol Hotel in El Algarrobico, Carboneras overlooking the beautiful Cabo de Gata Nijar Natural Park. Cabo de Gata is genuinely beautiful, regularly voted some of the best beaches in Spain, if not Europe. The Azata del Sol Hotel [...]
Costa Almeria Living: Spanish Hotels
March 4th, 2010Long Term Rentals Spain
January 28th, 2010In the recent post on retiring in Spain I advised that taking a long term rental in Spain was a prudent, and efficient, way of evaluating a place, deciding if you liked the Spanish lifestyle and way of life, and could adapt to the idea and reality of living in a new country away from [...]
The Future Of Spanish House Prices
January 27th, 2010With Spain’s financial recovery still heading in the wrong direction, the property market in Spain will, in theory, be a good market to invest in with many foreclosed and distressed property sales across parts of Spain, although at the moment there seem to be few signs of the dramatic reductions that are forecast (up to [...]
Spain: A Good Real Estate Investment in 2010
January 25th, 2010If the number of enquiries this year asking us to conduct a property search is anything to go by, I think 2010 may well be a good year for the sale of investment properties in Spain. By this I mean the distressed Spanish properties that are becoming more and more available as people realise that [...]
Property In Spain: How Safe Is It To Buy?
January 18th, 2010While I have every sympathy with those expats (in fact with anyone in Spain) facing the demolition of their properties, and can only praise the AUAN for the work they do, I have come to the conclusion that there is a significant danger of going too far and scaring away potential Spanish property buyers.
Over the [...]
Tax Changes To Make Property In Spain More Expensive
November 17th, 2009Am not sure how many people will be effected by this but I read recently that a couple of recently announced changes in tax here in Spain will adversely effect anyone thinking of buying a property in Spain. Well anyone thinking of buying a property over 200,000€ that is.
Talking to local estate agent friends here [...]
Property Purchase & Tax Implications
November 3rd, 2009Whether you are buying a property as your residence to live in, or as an investment, or even if you are buying a commercial property in Spain, as with everything in Spain it pays to plan ahead and take into account how the property will be legally held once you have purchased it.
Ownership
Will the [...]
An Old Fool’s Guide to FREE Holidays – Home Exchange
October 14th, 2009This is our first guest blogger week! Out first guest is Victoria Twead, who will be posting a article each day for the next five days. Our thanks to Victoria! Enjoy her writing, she is very good!!!
You can travel to any part of the world and NOT PAY ONE PENNY to stay in the [...]
An Old Fool’s 9 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Spanish Property
October 13th, 2009This is our first guest blogger week! Out first guest is Victoria Twead, who will be posting a article each day for the next five days. Our thanks to Victoria! Enjoy her writing, she is very good!!!
Moving to another country is a huge decision. I know because I’ve done it. In our case, it [...]
Expat Property In Spain: Buying Inland Properties
September 24th, 2009While it is still a good time to move to Spain despite the collapse in the property market due to the world wide recession, it has arguably always been a good time to buy properties inland in Spain.
It is fair to say that during the recent boom in property prices along the costas ambition and [...]
Spanish estate agents offer free divorce with every home
April 29th, 2009Spanish estate agents are offering couples ever more unusual deals in a desperate attempt to kick-start the country’s stagnant housing market.
The latest offer from a property company in Huelva province in southwestern Spain promises a free divorce lawyer to couples who buy one of their three bedroom houses for 68,000 euros (£61,000).
The deal by Geimsa [...]
Real Estate Exposition SIAL Aguadulce
March 18th, 2009Mediterra will be at the Real Estate Exposition SIAL Aguadulce from 19 through the 22nd of March at Stand MEDITERRA V-52
Pop along and say hi to Roberto and Luis!!!!
Almería Protest March
January 10th, 2009Passionate Protestors
Yesterday I went on the peaceful protest march in Almería in support of the Prior family (Len & Helen) who lost their property a year to the day. Well they didn’t lose it as such, they had it taken from them in as dramatic a fashion as you could imagine ……… they [...]
Peaceful Protest March in Almeria on Friday
January 6th, 2009That there will be a peaceful protest march in Almeria City this Friday, January 9th 2009 – a year exactly after Len and Helen Prior’s house was demolished by the Junta de Andalucía.
It’s being organised by AULAN, AUAN (both anti-property abuse associations in Almeria), Ciudadanos Europeos and others. This is the first big opportunity [...]
More Woes For Spanish Homeowners
October 27th, 2008Spanish authorities have ordered the demolition of dozens of homes in a Tenerife fishing village in an escalation of the drive to clear the country’s shores of illegal properties.
Residents of Cho Vito were evicted last week and their homes bulldozed after a judge overturned an appeal to save the cluster of 31 dwellings
Seems like this [...]
Federation Of British Estate Agents In Spain – Beware!!!
August 28th, 2008First posted on the 15th August, but reposted as it has received some interesting comments and exchange of views!
With all the ‘bad press’ that the overselling of property by (primarily) UK Estate Agents has received recently I was (initially) pleased to come across something called the Federation of British Estate Agents in Spain as my [...]
