Life in Spain post Brexit - Page 2

Pix Elated wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:26pm:

We are both fully legal, but have got a tough decision do we stay in Spain with its can't do attitude or do we cut our losses and ship out?

I really don't like what Spain has become in the 5 years we have lived here even the weather is taking a turn for the worse, bureaucracy is out of control, things that could be done simply online take numerous visits to offices here, there and everywhere, not to mention the reams and reams of pap...

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...erwork involved.

Spain had drifted rudderless without a single political party that has a working majority, having to cobble together a government from odds and bobs from other parties this is no way to run a country. Dark clouds are on the horizon but there does not seem to be the political will to do anything about it, it has been easy to simply rely on tourists to boost the economy now that cash tap is being turned off the Government don't seem to have a clue what it's going to do, that is painfully obvious from the proposed 2021 budget, with all its increases nothing innovative which comes as no surprise.

Lancelot wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:33pm:

People have to live somewhere. Houses/ property can be an investment but they are also necessary given we all need somewhere to live.

I'd agree that it is more difficult for us British to buy into Spain since leaving the EU. That is likely to be a drag on certain regions in Spain given they are UK enclaves....

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The Spanish property market could benefit from reform even without the UK leaving the EU, if they reduced the costs to transact on property my view is that activity would pick up and the market might start to turnover stock and improve population mobility.

The emerging need to get military approval for UK buyers seems positively insane and will provide another reason not to buy.

On the plus side it's; mostly warm, the people are friendly and property, for us, is far cheaper than in the UK :)

craig245t wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:27pm:

Agreed....... Not Spains fault at all. Its what the majority of Brits voted for 😭

Also I thought it was well known that you don't buy in Spain as an investment, the property market operates differently in Spain compared to the UK.

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We bought 3 years ago with Brexit on the cards and we have no regrets. Covid a nightmare but it will pass. 90 days in 180 works for us, the day it doesn't we'll sell or become residents. 

Trucker2lawyer wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:43pm:

Very..very true ...the rigidity that currently exists to buy property in Spain is akin to meeting the necessary thirty points required for Australia..US etc..  I read it earlier on the European News website that the current & impending criteria required for prospective buyers in Spain wo...

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...uld potentially exempt certain buyers ( because of the income guarantee) but would attract young buyers who work in a well paid environment like IT and in the current situation from home.

Pix Elated wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:26pm:

We are both fully legal, but have got a tough decision do we stay in Spain with its can't do attitude or do we cut our losses and ship out?

I really don't like what Spain has become in the 5 years we have lived here even the weather is taking a turn for the worse, bureaucracy is out of control, things that could be done simply online take numerous visits to offices here, there and everywhere, not to mention the reams and reams of pap...

Read more...

...erwork involved.

Spain had drifted rudderless without a single political party that has a working majority, having to cobble together a government from odds and bobs from other parties this is no way to run a country. Dark clouds are on the horizon but there does not seem to be the political will to do anything about it, it has been easy to simply rely on tourists to boost the economy now that cash tap is being turned off the Government don't seem to have a clue what it's going to do, that is painfully obvious from the proposed 2021 budget, with all its increases nothing innovative which comes as no surprise.

Pix Elated wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:26pm:

We are both fully legal, but have got a tough decision do we stay in Spain with its can't do attitude or do we cut our losses and ship out?

I really don't like what Spain has become in the 5 years we have lived here even the weather is taking a turn for the worse, bureaucracy is out of control, things that could be done simply online take numerous visits to offices here, there and everywhere, not to mention the reams and reams of pap...

Read more...

...erwork involved.

Spain had drifted rudderless without a single political party that has a working majority, having to cobble together a government from odds and bobs from other parties this is no way to run a country. Dark clouds are on the horizon but there does not seem to be the political will to do anything about it, it has been easy to simply rely on tourists to boost the economy now that cash tap is being turned off the Government don't seem to have a clue what it's going to do, that is painfully obvious from the proposed 2021 budget, with all its increases nothing innovative which comes as no surprise.

Paolo51 wrote on Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:48pm:

I believe houses in Spain have never been a sound investment as such ie buy it then sell it at a good profit 5 years later. It is a result to get out what you put into it upon re selling it as far as I can see.
Anyone who pays asking prices in Spain is a bit naive in my opinion, property is ov...

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...er priced to sell for a more realistic price. Once bought you then start making into a proper home with the money you thought you had saved.

I could not live in this country ‘under the radar’ as it where which I think a lot of UK ex pats have been doing and they are now scrambling to become legal, I did not live outside the rules in the UK and I wouldn’t do it here.

Some brexiteers with holiday homes throughout Europe are now realising what they voted for and how much harder it is for them to just come and go as they please.