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For the last 4 years www.inspectahomespain.com have been providing property buyers in Spain with a new property inspections, snagging service and as a result of our recent survey of 700 properties, where amazed, after asking as series of questions about rentals, how little buyers knew about how to rent their properties, what facilities, services renters were expecting. This article has been published for people that have already purchased a property who may be looking for common sense advice and in it we highlight some common mistakes made new owners.

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2 years ago InspectaHomeSpain published our first survey report, based on 350 new property inspections www.thesnaggingforum.com and with the incredible changes that the Spanish property market has gone through an update was overdue.

In the latest survey we look at inspection results for 700 properties, checked over the period from April 2007 – December 2008, in the Costa Blanca, Costa Calida, Costa Almeria and Costa del Sol areas.

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In the process of compiling a 2nd survey on common snagging defects in Spain, which I plan to publish November, I had laugh at some of the amusing comments made by developers and things that have happened, during snagging inspections, so I thought that I would share these with you via a report which you can get at the end of this article, but for now here are my top 3 corkers:
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For the last 3 years InspectaHomeSpain have been inspecting new build Spanish properties and with experience of checking more than 3000 properties, we are still amazed how often buyers really don’t understand the Spanish buying process. We are never sure if it’s the sunshine, idyllic surroundings, the relaxed lifestyle, or just the cheap booze, that results in the buyers leaving their brain on the plane and not really knowing what they have bought or the idiosyncrasies of Spanish system.

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