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GrahamLynn

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:08am

GrahamLynn

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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:08am

Yes, I agree if we hadn’t been so lucky we would have rented.

Even if it takes you 12 months to find the correct property it would cost you less in rental  fees than all the legal costs in buying, selling and repurchasing a property.

There are three “seasons”you need to look at when looking at locations.

1. January/February is everything closed or are there enough residents/holiday makers around to stop the area from looking like a ghost town.

2. July/August is the area over run with holiday makers. Can you still go out and be able to park your car when you return or are you going to be stuck in a traffic jam just doing your weekly shop.

3. The other 8 months of the year - the normal months. When there’s a pleasant mix of residents and tourists. Most locations should look the same up and down the coast and inland.it’s the summer and winter footfall you need to find out about.

Lynn

Susan6060

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:11am

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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:11am

GrahamLynn wrote on Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:16am:

We moved over four years ago and it was the best decision ever made. Totally agree with Kim about red tape, it’s really daunting as first, but once you’ve passed  those hurdles you’re fine. So what,  if it takes you three hours to open a bank account - you’ve not got anything el...

...se to do  with your day apart from sunbathe and your reason of having a nice cool beer just because you’ve opened a bank account is more than justified.

Everyone says rent at first especially if you don’t know the area, we didn’t we bought !

I’d never been to the area, but my husband had and my only knowledge was gained from trawling the internet and watching  A Place in the Sun. That was many many hours wasted as when we came looking for property we realised that nothing looked like the pictures we’d seen.  
Fortunately my boss had purchased his first holiday home  in the Costa del Sol over 20 years earlier and he gave me lots of advice of what to look for in areas and properties.

But in all honesty after only a couple of days house hunting once we’d found the location we wanted to live in and then found the house we knew everything was right and a put a deposit down straight away. That was on my fifth day of visiting the Costa Blanca!  Was it good luck or good judgement I don’t know, but it was definitely the right decision.

Lynn

Thank you so much Graham, you have really put my mind at rest. And I've definitely decided to buy instead of rent, my partner has a house in santa pola on the costa-blanca and go there alot. I just love Spain and the way of life. I agree with you that in the scheme of things waiting a few hours to open a bank account really isn't the end of the world. So thanks again for your positive reply. 

                              Regards 

                                        Susan 

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