helping you navigate the property market in Spain
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There’s a great review of How To Sell Your Spanish Property in a Crisis on one of my favourite sites, Justin from Eye On Spain. He makes a great point, he says: “Whatever the reason for you wanting to sell your property in Spain, you really couldn’t have picked a worse time to do so, although it’s probably through need more than want.”
He goes on to add that Nick’s book is “Brilliant”. Well we thought so!
One of the most difficult things in times of fast market changes (ie house price decreases) is how to decide what to offer our property for. Price too high and you won’t get any interest. Too low and you could be giving money away. So how do you decide?
Two experts have ideas for how.
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There’s a great post on the spaineconomy blog, run by Edward ‘the bonobo’ a Catalan economist of British extraction based in Barcelona, which explains the current economic situation.
There’s a great post from Martin Dell at Kyero about getting accurate information on Spanish property prices, have a read here:
Does your insurance cover your home in Spain when left unoccupied?
As the sun sets on the holiday letting season, it is likely that you are preparing to lock up and leave your Spanish holiday home during the winter months. Before you do, holiday home insurance experts www.schofields.ltd.uk are advising property owners to check their insurance and make sure you understand what is covered and what is excluded when your property is left empty.
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Part 1 of this article on Renting Your Spanish Property covered understanding your costs and what fixtures and fittings to include…
Key holding and property management
The Spanish economy registered an interannual growth of 0.9% in the third quarter of 2008, nine tenths less than in the previous quarter. Data from the INE.es
- The quarter-on-quarter growth stands at –0.2%, three tenths less than the growth registered last quarter.
- The annual and quarter-on-quarter growth data coincides with that published in the Advance Estimate for the Quarterly National Accounts published last 14 November.
Our contributors are great people take a look at what they can do for you:
Martine Cherry – from www.dreamspain.net – Martine can help you buy or sell a home in Murcia in Spain
Roy Howitt – from www.thesnaggingforum.com – Roy can help you with snagging for your new home – he has plenty of useful reports over at his site
Yolanda Solo – from www.spainsurvivalmanual.com and the author of Spain: The Expat Survival Guide
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A month ago I came across this property developer in Devon, who was selling raffle tickets for his 4 luxury apartments. For just £50 you would be in with the chance to win all 4 of the apartments and become a property developer overnight. Yup, for just 50 quid! I must admit I was tempted.
Then there’s the Spanish ones.
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