Houses for Sale in Spain

Lliria town hall has just put out a new video promoting the town. They have missed a little trick by not having a subtitled version to attract expats but it gives a good vision of the town and you should take a look just to se the Roman ruins, the old fort, the museums and traditions of the town. 22 minutes in Spanish so get a coffee and sit back.

I have released the latest issue of the Spain is Different Magazine to subscribers. Two problems came up. It was due to go out last night but I timed it wrong and that is a good job too because, secondly, I put the wrong link in too! So rather than reading about another way to make a tortilla, the vintage train in Mallorca, Mourinho and Madrid and a match made in hell, money saving tips from Maxine Raynor, short snippets of Spanish oddities, economic news, and an editorial about the battle for the soul of Spain people were reading about an attic flat in Valencia! Mea culpa.

Before starting I have to say this is not my style. However this is the ideal holiday home and place to rent out for many people being near the beach and the local golf course and having all facilities to hand.

This villa for sale in Campoamor has been educed from €150,000 to €95,000 in January. This very well presented 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom detached villa is situated very close to Campoamor golf course and is only a few minutes drive to the beach. The property is located on a corner plot and comprises of a covered entrance porch, large lounge/diner, kitchen, double bedroom and a cloakroom on the ground level. Upstairs there is a family bathroom and two double bedrooms, the master having a large balcony.

I was reminded this week about the potential for anyone already living in Spain or who has sold a property in Spain to be owed some money by officialdom.

I got a call from a gestor about one of my clients from three years ago. Could I come in and pick up the excess money from the provision of funds made when she sold the property in … 2009! I misheard the amount on the phone. I thought they had told me 50 euros. When I arrived at the gestoria I was given a cheque in the name of my client for 950 euros.

Today the site has been down for quite a long time. This was triggered because o the overwhelming response to the new Spain is Different magazine tat was sent out to a few lists and partners yesterday night. So many people were downloading it from the site today that eventually my hosting company took the site down thinking that something was wrong.

I just thought you might like to know who is buying property in Spain at the moment. The reason I wanted to do this is that I placed a comment in an article on the Daily Telegraph about Ireland. Everyone started having a downer on Spain and the other, so called PIIGS, so I thought I would defend the country a little by stating facts rather than opinions from internet warriors probably still living in their mum’s houses.

There are a lot of unsold houses for sale in Spain. You would think that the government would be trying to encourage sales to foreigners in every way they can in order to buy this surplus and maintain investment in Spain at higher levels than would otherwise be the case.

You would be wrong.

Spain has just introduced a change to the way that people apply for and get the NIE tax numbers which directly affects all foreigners coming into the country, wanting to invest here in the majority of cases.

The latest issue of Spain is Different Magazine is now out. Including stories about a 24 metre statue of a Megalomaniac standing outside an airport with no planes, how the USA bullied Spain into it’s new internet law, lots of only in Spain stories, 5 Spanish Start up companies that may do really well this year and our latest editorial about how you can help Spain become more dynamic.

If you are living in the UK and earning pounds now is the best time to buy in Spain since October 2008. It was then that the UK government at the time effectively devalued the currency and overnight (Well in a period of a month) the pound went from €1.50 to €1.06. This made property in Spain immediately more expensive at a time when prices were still really high having reached their peak in 2007.

I take a lot of photos, photos of houses, family photos, photos around Spain stuff I snap on the iphone as I move around and a whole lot more. Recently I bought myself a new Macbook Pro and as I use a lot of images I had to import some photos. It turns out there were 18247 in the iphoto library. 18247 is a lot of photos. And when I saw how iphoto imported them I thought I would screenflow it.