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Good morning, I'm considering buying a property close to Belimeli.Its a little remote (in the hills) with quite a narrow roadway. It's quite a tough uphill cycle so I'm wondering about local taxi services and public transport. I also require an English speaking structural engineer to survey the property so I'd really appreciate any useful advice.
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:26pm
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Maurice J wrote on Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:01am:
Good morning, I'm considering buying a property close to Belimeli.Its a little remote (in the hills) with quite a narrow roadway. It's quite a tough uphill cycle so I'm wondering about local taxi services and public transport. I also require an English speaking structural engineer to survey the p...
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...roperty so I'd really appreciate any useful advice.
Mark Paddon is mentioned frequently re property surveys
Here is a link
Personally I would think very carefully before buying an isolated property, especially from a security point of view. But, from my own property I can see dozens of similar properties so maybe I'm wrong, there are obviously lots of people who like to live up on the mountains!
Also, public transport is extremely limited there. What seems romantic and charming at first may turn out to be the wrong choice later....
Steve
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:13pm
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We are approx half hour drive from you in the campo.
The structural engineer/surveyor is Mark Paddon, fully qualified under Spanish requirements. Do the obvious online search, he’s usually the top of the page!
Public transport in rural areas is minimal, if it exists. There is a bus stop in our local village, I have occasionally seen a bus! Don’t imagine you can live in remote rural villages without a car, it’s not really feasible. There will of course be taxi services available, usually some local version of a radio taxi organisation, but there may not be services actually located in your village.
The other consideration is that it is possible, as happens in our village, that there is no permanent health clinic, we have the services of a ( very good) peripatetic doctor who attends the surgery at least four days a week, usually between midday and about two pm. Anything urgent needs to go either to Denia hospital Urgencias, or a local town which has 24 hour facility.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking rural Spain is like UK for the provision of services, it’s not, rural Spain is still rural Spain, although of course facilities have improved greatly in recent years, partly due to the influx of foreign residents.
Anything else, just ask, or pm me if you like.
