Hello ! I Need advice and opinion from people who brought house or condominiums among the mostly spanis populated aries

Hi Robika 

The short answer is yes.

We are actually renting from an expat landlord in a largely Spanish area south of the main town.  The locals have been very welcoming and accepting of us, especially when we attempt to speak their language.  One of our neighbours has even made the local delicacies for us when there has been a fiesta.

If buying, I would think a working knowledge of the language would be very helpful, in order to give your input at community meetings.

One thing to be aware of is, if buying a property with a community pool, then the Spanish complexes will only have the pool available for use in the main holiday months of July and August, whereas those with a largely expat community will have theirs open for longer.

E.

Thank You! When you write the center of the main towne you mean in Torrevieja? The pool doesnot interest me at all.I almost all my life I have lived in a house.And I am not sue how are those apartments are in spain.And I see a lot of them wich looking nice doesnot have air condition and heat.I supose I can use an electric heater.But can i put arcondition in?I was looking the city of Almorandi .What do you think about that city?I am interestid in every opinion.look over my bad english please .🥰🥰🥰

We face north east.  We have air conditioning but hardly use it in the summer as sooner or later we shall need to go out into the heat and find it better not to have too large an increase in temperature.  However, in the winter we switch it on to heat the apartment, which it does efficiently.

We hardly hear our neighbours, so noise is not particularly a problem.

I, and others on this forum, recommend quite strongly that before buying it makes sense to rent in your chosen location to make sure it’s the place for you.  If not, it could take years to resell and your capital remains tied up.

We used trip advisor and rented for several short terms in different locations before we moved to where we are now.  It had been our intention to buy, but we’ve now decided to continue renting as it will be far easier for our children to sort when the time comes, and we have no unexpected expenditure should expensive repairs to the building become necessary.

E.

WE rented while our house was being built.  In the flats older than 10 years the kitchen cooker ventilation goes into a common outlet tube to the roof.  As a result the cooking smells enter all of the flats when the Spanish start preparing the lunchtime meal, usually quite early.    I do not like the smell of frying fish, garlic, onions et al when trying to eat my toast.     Also, when the little offspring of the elderly neighbours come to visit, sometimes for the whole day, if the grandparents are their carers, a common situation in Spain,  you will definitely hear them!

I would not recommend a flat in a predominantly Spanish building.

Good luck with  your search.

Hi,

   wherever you go I would say rent before buying, added taxes and costs for a purchase are quite high and would be wasted if you do not like the property or location.

    My experience of the buildings (in the Los Dolses area) is that they have little acoustic or thermal insulation so sound travels quite easily between adjoining properties and they require quite a lot of heating in the winter months. 

Rgds,

Aitch.  

You raise a point worth checking.

We live in a Spanish apartment block, the kitchen vent leads to the open air.  The bathroom vent is another matter.  Some of our neighbours use nice perfumes.  As for noise from the neighbours, we hardly hear them and on one side there are young children.  British children make a noise too, I expect we did when we were children, it goes with the job description.

Purple Gran you are very diplomatic re bathroom vent.... when the children are overhead with hard shoes it is a different matter....

Nice advice.

Oh yes; the bathroom vent situation... 

The occupants of the flat below us are heavy smokers, and it stinks out our whole flat. 

I've had to tape over the vent and leave the window permanently open for respite. Makes for cold showering though!

Thank you.I am learning all the time.Good luck maybe you should move.😮😮