buying a Spanish holiday home..

[Moz]

Im off down too Spain in the next day or too ,spending a few weeks house hunting in the hot med sun ,lovely

My wife wants us to buy around Andalucia,Nerja valley , Im not really bothered but if it keeps her happy ...one good point is all the great golf courses that are there , Im really rubbish but It will give me a chance to keep my "swing" in .....

I did say while in Blackpool yesterday we should get a static caravan there instead , lol ..lol

see you all soon
take care

 

[ninebob]

Don't know if any of this is useful for you Moz, but my friend Neal has an apartment in Spain right by a golf course http://www.nealball.co.uk/apartment.htm and now is a partner in a business helping other people to buy property abroad www.a-home-or-business-abroad.com. He's not too good with the old web design, but his number's on the site and I'm sure he can give you some good advice if you say I pointed you in his direction!

 

[Slogger]

i know a few people that have done the move to spain and all of them bought second hand houses that had been up for a few years

this is due to the new houses built being really bad quality the best way to do it is to buy a run down hovel with outright planning permission TO knock down and rebuild these are not hard to find and cost notalot

gl on the new adventure SENIOR

 

[Moz]

ninebob
thanks very much for that link/phone number ,Cheers

Slogger
regarding getting a new build , Ive seen some that are 24 months old now an they have dropped in price due too the high volume of properties on the market there ,
I wouldnt mind getting a ruin an doing it up like Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, I have mates who are retired to from the building trade an think it would be a good "craic !" ,
on mentioning this to her indoors , I got Told to Stop being Stupid ,lol..

once we have something you can pedal over on your push bike for a holiday ? lol

 

[paulbrown]

I'm sure he can give you some good advice if you say I pointed you in his direction!

Would he give bad advice to people he doesn't know?

 

[Richardp]

I wonder how they feel about us going down there buying up their property I wonder how slogger would feel if a load of spanish people started buying up the houses round him wonder if he'd invite them round to sample some typical english hosbitality fish and chips washed down with a pint of cooking beer then a bit of english barn dancing.

 

[Gary_M]

Good luck with the house hunting Moz.

Sorry to put a dampner on it, but if you decide to buy make sure you get a really good solicitor who knows Spanish law inside out - a lot of people have come a cropper buying property over there.

I recall seeing a documentary about this couple who bought a wonderful little house in the country - everything seemed fine until a few months later when they were told that the Spanish authorities decided to build some new houses near their home. This involved using part of their land to site a new access road. In a nutshell, the Spanish law allowed this to happen without contest, AND the people did not get any reimbursement for losing some of their land BUT, here is the 'best' bit - the couple had to pay the cost of building the road going through their land !!!

 

[2scoops0406]

Well my in laws live in Nerja, house prices have fallen quite a bit in the last 12 months in the area, although Nerja itself you'll still be paying around £300,000 for a 3 bed villa with pool and sea view. It's also not a very cheap place to live as it has a large ex pat community. Further towards Malaga is Torrox which is cheaper than Nerja but not as nice.

If you want to get more for your money then you have to move inland, into the campo (countryside) the further inland you are generally the cheaper. May be worth checking out Competa, no sea view though and it can get "cold" due to being in the mountains.

The problem with moving inland is two-fold, obviously you're no longer near the sea, secondly you'll have to learn Spanish.

You'll have to be prepared to accept that anything on the coast is going to be at a premium price.

If you want to live in Nerja itself, you should have bought 5 years ago, house prices have more than doubled since then!! I wish you the best of luck

 

[Richardp]

one of the problems seems to be that a distant relative that went to live in south america 100 yrs ago can come back and make a claim on the family home which may have been a donkey shed but now converted into a lovely villa with pool.

 

[2scoops0406]

Nah, just ensure you get the correct paperwork, title deeds, etc. You must use a specialist bilingual solicitor, there are loads of them in Nerja.

 

[Moz]

Eddie M
Thanks

I did see that tv proggie , my wife is "on the ball" she an her sister have been in contact with a load of local builders an agents ,
+ we will get a proper Spanish Notary and a English speaking lawyer working for us ,

I can speak very basic Spanish ,
una cerveza grande te agradece por favor mucho senor ..lol....

but we will learn the lingo....

my wife has informed me over the footie her sis is coming too , I said "fine !"
I think she thought I wouldnt want Tracey to come with us ...lol..lol
(an she looks fit in just her bikini bottoms ,lol )

as it will allow me time to laze about on the beach an golf courses , which is Fantastic with me ....they can go view properties , Hurrah !

the downer tomorrow is taking my lil pussycat Purdy to the catteries ...
Ive booked the lil fat feline in for two weeks , will be crying on the way home after dropping her off there

Rich
I think you will find its newkie brown ale that slogger will be offering around his area to his asylum mates ..,

 

[Richardp]

I can speak very basic Spanish ,
una cerveza grande te agradece por favor mucho senor ..lol....

your a dark horse Moz! hope you have a nice time bud.

 

[Moz]

Rich
I picked up loads working with a lad down in London years ago , an it was fun learning basic spanish , lol although when we had problems with sparkies his angry spanish was just a blur of this an that ,lol

btw this is just a holiday home ,
an I get the funny feeling my wifes family are going to be there all the time ,her mother an aunty Jean have said they want /need to go for this xmas , lol.. hmmm


an Im thinking of saying her family ONLY need to pay half the villa rental price when they are there ,lol

I shall wait til Im over there an the wife an sis are both pi**ed up before I mention this , teehee , ...lol..lol

 

[2scoops0406]

Learn the language, it'll have many benefits. It'll be loads cheaper to live and you'll be able to avoid the ex-pat scum. Also, if you live in the campo, in a good year food is incredibly cheap. You can gorge yourself on tomatoes, mangoes, limes, lemons, advacado, oranges etc etc, all completely free.

Put it this way in the UK our weekly shop is around £150, in Spain it was around 40 - 50 Euros.

Also avoid the 43 centimo (about 30p a litre) Coviran vino tinto (red wine), it will rot your guts.

Enjoy yourself, have a good look around, remember that nothing is shifting much at the mo' buyers market.

 

[Moz]

That scummy English ex pats chums dont appeal NOW,

I can go to my local boozer for that ,lol an they are covered up an not whale like nakiid ..lol Urrgh ..

an your quite correct a smidgen of spanish always helped before an we met wonderful warm Gorgeous generous people there ...


regarding the drink ...Ive been away from my mentor/sponsor Pete at the mo at AA , he calls / bangs on my door ..
Im such a loser ...Ive drunk a few times of late ..

On holidays in Spain before being p*ssed is the norm for us Brits ,
I know there its 24/7 an NORMAL ....

I was such a Party Animal on the drink ...

but even so , Im 40 an flipped , I take 4 tabs a day for high blood an cholesterol, (Drs placebos)


or b*ll*cks .... an live life fast an fun ..my gorgeous wife an I got Krazy an love it ...
at the time if .......
THATS IT, SO BE IT !...no children /dependants ..


I dont know will see Pete tomorrow dinner ,