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Morning folks, i just wondered if anyone else had delayed buying a place in Spain, we initially went to Spain Feb 2019 with the intention of buying a finca, for a few reasons we did not buy, reasons included the following, decided we did not want to become resident and brexit but probably the biggest reason was we were unsure if an inland finca was really what we wanted, we returned to Spain later in 2019 and rented a house inland and this convinced us inland was probably not for us.
During 2018 / 2019 we spent hours even days researching properties, one thing we have noticed when conducting the same house searches recently via several estate agent sites is the increase in house numbers for sale, i suspect covid has had a bigger effect on the housing market than brexit was ever going to have, as an example in late 2019 we looked at houses in Santa Pola, there were very few (less than 10) within our budget / search criteria, the same search today throws back 129 houses.
Same goes for Torrevieja and Guardamar, there are far far more houses for sale using the same search criteria and this is common on all the estate agency sites we have used.
We are currently in the UK and hoping to get back ASAP, our last visit was July/August last year, just wondered how businesses , bars etc etc are coping, hard times for many people, life changing even for those that have never had this virus.