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Will property prices reduce significantly after the recent floods?

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:37pm
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Zealous

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I was planning to buy a flat in Torrevieja to use as a second home. However, after the recent horrible news, I start to doubt whether that will be a wise decision. They say floods will only increase in the future, not the opposite...

Of course I don't want to buy a property that could end up under water...Do you start to see any significant changes in the property prices that reflect the recent events?  

Unless there is a massive reduction in price like 40% or more, I don't see how anyone can now decide to buy a property there knowing it will be flooded in a couple of months? Also the insurance premiums must be going crazy now...

Swimmer57

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:28pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:28pm

Oh, for goodness' sake. People have lost everything, the clean up operations are still going on and the emergency services are still finding bodies, and you are asking about property prices? 

Zealous

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:45pm

Zealous

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:45pm

Swimmer57 wrote on Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:28pm:

Oh, for goodness' sake. People have lost everything, the clean up operations are still going on and the emergency services are still finding bodies, and you are asking about property prices? 

I was asking in a respectful way. Where should I ask these questions? I thought this was a helpful community? I don't need your judgement buddy... 

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 3:51pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 3:51pm

Zealous wrote on Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:45pm:

I was asking in a respectful way. Where should I ask these questions? I thought this was a helpful community? I don't need your judgement buddy... 

There are serious floods In Spain from time to time and they are projected to get worse in the future, that's true of many countries worldwide.

 It would be wise to look at the location of any property you want to buy, do as much research as possibe about any issues in the area, including flood risk. This would be the same if you were buying, in say, the UK. 

A bigger issue in Spain is the lack of rainfall!

 I don't think prices around Torrevieja will be affected by the recent flooding seen in other parts of the country, but that's just my opinion.

Rgds,

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Zealous

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:09pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:09pm

aitchc1401 wrote on Thu Nov 14, 2024 3:51pm:

There are serious floods In Spain from time to time and they are projected to get worse in the future, that's true of many countries worldwide.

 It would be wise to look at the location of any property you want to buy, do as much research as possibe about any issues in the area, including flood risk. This would be the same if you were buying, in say, the UK. ...

...

A bigger issue in Spain is the lack of rainfall!

 I don't think prices around Torrevieja will be affected by the recent flooding seen in other parts of the country, but that's just my opinion.

Rgds,

Aitch.

Ok, so you're saying Alicante was horribly flooded and property prices in Torrevieja will not be affected? That's strange...Even a pensioner that won't have much of a clue how the property market works, will probably have some second thoughts about buying a house in the sun...

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aitchc1401

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:58pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:58pm

Zealous wrote on Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:09pm:

Ok, so you're saying Alicante was horribly flooded and property prices in Torrevieja will not be affected? That's strange...Even a pensioner that won't have much of a clue how the property market works, will probably have some second thoughts about buying a house in the sun...

Yes, your right, that is what I am saying.

 Why would prices fall in a location that did not flood 44km away from somewhere that did flood? In the UK I live about 12 miles from a village that regularly gets flooded, it does not affect the prices in my area. 

 I did advise that you look at all the risks when you are considering buying, take my opinion as just that, my opinion, and make your own mind up. 

Rgds,

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Jaycee75

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:14pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:14pm

There were no floods in Torrevieja that put properties at risk and it's highly unlikely that it will ever happen.  

Torrevieja isn't Valencia !!

Jaycee75

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:18pm

Torrevieja always has flooded rains after many rainstorms. Some areas used to get flooded though not many parts. Since the Gota Fria in 2019 they have been very busy putting in storm drains, runoffs and other building work. Property floods are very rare and I doubt any property prices in that area will change downwards. 

We get some pretty serious rainfall in my town but it is all diverted and, even in the last big storm which caused some damage, no flooding occurred and it cleared pretty quickly. Yet just 5km to the north they opened a sluice gate to alleviate the flow and many properties had serious flooding. That hasn't affected the prices in my place even with a greater proximity than Torrevieja has to Alicante. 

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 6:56pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 6:56pm

Don't forget the droughts, earthquakes and forest fires!
If you want to live anywhere around the Mediterranean then these are the risks, they have always been there and still prices are rising.

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