City life is the same the World over. There are marvellous things and there are things that anyone would be sad to see. Think about begging on the streets, people rummaging in bins, and junkies shooting up in public. Now I know that New York managed to clean up the city some time ago with a zero tolerance policy towards anything considered anti social although that seems to be falling apart now. Spain has a similar problem, a friend of mine has just moved out of Barcelona due to the scams, prostitutes and general feeling of the Ramblas these days, and when I went to the UK recently the same problems were evident there except without the joy of the Ramblas and Barcelona in general.
I thought I would give you a feeling of a quiet Sunday morning here in Valencia. I have come along to the Urbe exhibition in the Feria to see what offers are on this morning. The facts are rather shocking. Urbe Desarrollo is the big real estate fair for the Mediterranean and it happens in November. I have blogged from there for the last three years about how it is going to the dogs.
Does that sound like a deal that may interest you? I have access to all of the properties available from one of the banks here in Valencia and that is the deal. The prices are set and the bank will finance up to 90% both to residents and non residents as long as the client appears to be a good one. You have to find 10% deposit and the costs only. Then you do not pay any mortgage at all for three years. Does it seem to good to be true?
This is the first chapter of the Estate Agency Confessions, part of the fantastic Audiobooks that I produced a few months back. It misses the introduction but it tells you how the situation arrived that 1 in 400 people in Madrid was an Estate Agent in 2006,
When you get up on a Saturday morning and you want something to do after you have bought your property for sale in Spain here is a good suggestion. The video includes a lot of information about the beach and port areas including where you can find a WiFi cocktail bar, great hotels overlooking the beach and what to do while there
Valencia as a lifestyle choice for living in Spain is great and choosing an apartment of this type to rent will give you a great reason to come home every evening.
Spain is known for its Plazas. One of the dreams of many coming to Spain is to sip a couple of cool beers watching the World go by in a central Plaza under the Spanish sun or in the shade.
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