Selling Villa

Lancelot wrote on Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:55pm:

When is your target completion date at the moment, are you resident in Spain and have you sorted power of attorney out should you not be able to return in person to complete the sale. Have you sorted out a key holder should you be unable to return and the sale falls through.

Our situation was in reverse last year and after paying the deposit, which was paid to our solicitor not the vendor or their agent, we started to worry that we might not be able to travel over to complete the purchase within the time constraints and lose our deposit....

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As it turned out we could travel and the vendor had signed power of attorney so it ran like clockwork'ish.

If you are resident here you should be more likely to be allowed to travel back if necessary though that is dependant on the severity of future virus numbers and the vaccination rates here.

Maureen1952 wrote on Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:16pm:

We are residents of Spain we can give powervof attorney to our solicitor all that is in place. We are due and have made arrangements for our pets and belongings to go back to the uk. We booked our flights back to the uk for the 2nd June not worrying about covid it was only when we received a warn...

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...ing and requirements for 'fit to fly'. As Spain is very slow with their vaccine program and their cases of covid going up we worried they may go into the red zone and we would be forced to isolate in a hotel at a rediculous cost or we may not be able to fly if the flights are cancelled at that point we would be homeless and for how many months we just don't know.

Lancelot wrote on Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:30pm:

Okay so your mail concern is covid. Why not bring your travel forward - numbers are pretty low at the moment? 

If you do keep June as a travel date you just need to run your plan with risks understanding what happens if all or some of the risks become issues - make sure you have mitigation strategies in place for each. I'm no expert on Covid but red countries might be those where strains of the virus not ...

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...yet dominant in the UK have been detected and rates are high. You can clearly mitigate the risk of contracting covid before you fly by taking precautions but at the end of the day who knows what the covid situation will be like in June.

Much of it comes down to whether your house is in demand or not and the price you've agreed. If you pull out is it likely you can sell it fairly easily in future? Personally I'm cautious and would probably accelerate my departure plans once the deposit has been placed and leave it in the hands of my solicitor.

Good luck :)

Emmalouise44 wrote on Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:47am:

Hello. I hope you don’t mind me asking but I wondered what your reasons for returning to the uk are? We are in the process of a move to Pinoso but we are still unsure on the move as we have 3 small children. I guess I’m looking for advice on the move and your personal experience. 

Maureen1952 wrote on Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:22am:

Hi if you are young and have a young family I think change can be easy for you. We have several reasons for our move back to the uk. I am very home sick and I miss my friends and family I have a new grandaughter I have only seen once when she was borne. I have not driven alone here and I don't ha...

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...ve the confidence to get in the car and drive so my freedom has changed. As I said there are several reasons for both me and my husband and it all boils down to our happiness. We are glad we did it if we had not come here we would have always had it in our thoughts and maybe regrets we never did it. Allot of people come here and love it and it suits them. I just wonder if covid had not happened and I could have visited the uk more often and my friends and family were able to come out and visit would I have felt the same. But I must admit I miss many things in the uk. All I can say to you is try it if it doesn't work out go back home you have many years ahead of you a young family and you have young brains. The one piece of advice I would give you is to learn the language life will be so much easier here. Learning a new language at my age and my husbands age is not easy I was never much good at foreign language's at school. Anyway good luck and I hope your life here will be very happy the weather here is wonderful for children they can play outside all of the time instead of being inside because of bad weather.

John 52 wrote on Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:31am:

Hi Maureen, just to say I hope all goes well for you in your move back to the UK ,you appear to be somewhat of a rarity a person that moves back to the UK ,Moving to Spain on a full time business is totally different to the 2 week holiday experience  .We moved June 2019 and found it very dif...

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...ficult to settle and missed lots about the UK ,so much so that we made expensive knee jerk reaction decisions. We have been back in UK since start of November  and are waiting to get back to Spain  for our 90 day visit ,we could have applied for residency in 2019 but the uncertainty of our feelings decided us against it ,we wont go for residency now as our pensions do not meet criteria ,but I am glad that Emmalouise asked you the question  as it was good to get a person who was making move in reverse perspective on Spain, best wishes 

Maureen1952 wrote on Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:22am:

Hi if you are young and have a young family I think change can be easy for you. We have several reasons for our move back to the uk. I am very home sick and I miss my friends and family I have a new grandaughter I have only seen once when she was borne. I have not driven alone here and I don't ha...

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...ve the confidence to get in the car and drive so my freedom has changed. As I said there are several reasons for both me and my husband and it all boils down to our happiness. We are glad we did it if we had not come here we would have always had it in our thoughts and maybe regrets we never did it. Allot of people come here and love it and it suits them. I just wonder if covid had not happened and I could have visited the uk more often and my friends and family were able to come out and visit would I have felt the same. But I must admit I miss many things in the uk. All I can say to you is try it if it doesn't work out go back home you have many years ahead of you a young family and you have young brains. The one piece of advice I would give you is to learn the language life will be so much easier here. Learning a new language at my age and my husbands age is not easy I was never much good at foreign language's at school. Anyway good luck and I hope your life here will be very happy the weather here is wonderful for children they can play outside all of the time instead of being inside because of bad weather.