Our new life in the sun! - Page 5

Floor plans be buggered: the first time we flew to Vigo from Ibiza via Madrid (I include this info. only to highlight the inconvenience and cost) to look for real estate we soon came to terms with the fact that all the places that we arranged to view included terraces and surface areas under overhangs, etc. in the sq. meterage. Made the trip informative but otherwise a bloody waste of time.

Hi thanks for your reply yes it would be good to have there details.

Not sure how to pass on details when we’re not allowed to post emails phone number etc🤔

Phil

Hi Phil,

At the top of the page on the left you will see lines click on them see private message send to Swarty 

Thanks

What an awful negative nasty person to do such a response. You should be ashamed of yourself.

There are deaths everyday from something and the World is in enough negativity without your twopence.

Waters are clearer animals run more free air in cleaner and the virus will pass.

Families hopefully will be more united and people will value each other more. I suggest you need a lot more lock down time to work on yourself and let your heart love again instead of being full of negativity.

Would be interested talking to your contacts

Gilly, I'm not a nasty person and certainly not ashamed of myself.

This is a forum for sharing information and expressing opinions. What I posted was, and still is my opinion.

I have nothing personal against Touneyman and hope he finds what he's looking for but in the current situation I took exception to the wording of his post.

That's all......nothing more.

We are all entitled to opinions but everyone looks for bargains in one way or another throughout life so dumb founded why it rubbed you up the wrong way.

This is a virus and it will pass. I have experienced a tradegy of death in my family of a you beautiful lady but would not stop me wishing others well.

When we write we post and hardly ever reread before hitting that send button.

Just looking for glass half full I guess instead of half empty.

Totally agree with Mack.

Great forum but please filter through comments as some people get pleasure out of being nasty or sarcastic, 

Overall you will get loads of info from people who have experienced the journey that you are embarking on 

Good luck

You can't blame someone asking for a bargain - in spite of the 'world-ending' and many of us taking a financial (or worse) kick in. There will always be an opportunity somewhere & I don't think there is anything wrong with focusing on something 'more positive' in the future - rather than spend 24/7 digesting the depressing stuff around us.

I'm not so sure about this 'bargain thing' in Spain - The UK has massive problems which are yet to truly surface, as it may end up with the 'double-bubble' effect with the known financial issues from the pandemic (which all countries are having to deal with), but in a combination of a Brexit trade deal, which seemingly does not exist. 

This is a HUGE issue for the UK - which has a free ticket with the financial services (or did while in EU) and as most non-Brexit voters were blissfully unaware that 45% of the UK's exports go to the EU and 53% of goods are imported from the EU. Any additional tariffs on top of the current pandemic issues are likely to devalue the UK markets. IE the bargains might be also in the UK!  I'm not quite sure how the UK can expect to get a tariff-free trade deal with the EU (which is what they have already) - whilst making additional demands. I think the UK is in more trouble than people realise. Much like the USA, it's not the country it once was.

Brexit & bargains aside - there will always be an opportunity for those who have money, to take advantage of those who don't. So if you are a cash buyer or can access funds quickly and someone is desperate to sell, then you will find opportunity. 

There will certainly be bars & restaurants which will suffer and owners looking to exit. But only freehold worth investment. 

Spain in many ways is different to the UK -  individual debt is lower and properties are less, with many family-owned. Employment statistics have always been misleading with a fair percentage of the population 'under the radar' - cash workers, so it can be quite difficult to get a truthful handle onto what is going on in Spain.

Where you do find property bargains in Spain - is when older ex-pats want to go home. They may miss the family or feel 'the end is near' and want to be understandably close to their families & many as time closes in, bail and do so cheaply.  I've seen a few of my elderly neighbours want to go back to the UK and undersold their properties by 20-30k just to get out quickly.