Surviving The Spanish Property Crash

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We’re giving 5 review copies away to readers of this blog. So read on to find out more…

How To Sell Your Spanish Property

As you may know, as well as operating this website we also run a publishing business. Well, Nick Snelling (one of our authors with an impressive track record in Spanish real estate) approached us with a book proposal that couldn’t have come at a better time. We immediately agreed to publish him and have worked as quickly as we can to get this book in print and available to people who need it.

You can read the impressive endorsements from the press and industry experts by clicking to enlare the cover. The book went to print just over a week ago and will be available to buy via Amazon and all good bookshops within the next few days. Here are the Amazon links…

However, if you can’t wait that the few days for the print book to arrive you can download an ebook here…

Now, I also mentioned we’re giving away 5 review copies of this book to the first 5 people to contact us using the “contact” link at the top of this website. So, if you want one, all you need to do is agree to write a review for the book on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com as soon as you’ve read it.

Get in touch now – as we’re expecting these 5 freebies to go quickly…

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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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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The Times are calling it the “Icesave Effect”, based on the near collapse of Iceland’s banking system last week – where people feel their money could be safer in property than it is in a bank!
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I’ve recently been contacted by an old friend who informs me:

The property crash does not worry me at all. My house is paid for and I intend to live in Spain for the rest of my life. The most important thing (if anything) is the value for inheritance but I would expect that in the long run the “investment” will be sound.
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I got to wondering yesterday, is it easier to blame an external “condition” for the things that might be going wrong in our lives rather than take responsibility ourselves?

For example, let’s say you have lived over here in Spain for a year or two, you’ve spent your savings and still haven’t found employment, now you’ve run out of money and you need to go back to the UK. Is it the crisis that has caused this? Or is it because you’re spent more time on your bum in a bar than down the local cultural centre learning Spanish and making contacts?

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Crash? Crisis? Crunch? Who Wants Us Scared Anyway?

Have you ever noticed that as soon as something has a name it has a life of its own? DotCom Bubble, 9/11, Property Crash, Credit Crunch, Hidden Agenda etc.

The deliberate use of names has been something I’ve been interested in for a long time.

As a business owner I know that naming (or branding) something makes it easier for people to buy it. And, while this naming is important for products it becomes essential when you’re dealing with something less tangible – something that would otherwise be invisible – like a service, event, an idea or process.
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I know any number of experts would answer me and say “why no one at the moment you fool!”.  However from my own experience in my small corner of Spain I have to disagree.  Buyers are not the mythological entities you may have been lead to believe – a variety of people are still actively looking to buy in Spain. 

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If you have a mortgage, in the next few months you may have to accept the new interest rate hike from your bank, or try and find a better deal.
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Still not decided?

There will be many people in this category – either thinking of coming to Spain or thinking of going back home.
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