Defining your Spanish Property needs

October 28, 2008

A successful purchase starts with clearly defined needs. Mark Stucklin from Spanish Property Insight offers some excellent advice. Don’t make the common mistake of allowing wishful thinking to cloud your judgement when establishing what you need from a property in Spain. Think hard about your situation, both now and in the future, and try to identify the property characteristics that will best fit in with your evolving circumstances. Be prepared to challenge your assumptions about what you really need, and be clear about what you can afford. When defining your needs, it helps to create a clear, written brief that you can give to estate agents so they know exactly what you are looking for. The sorts of questions you need to ask yourself are as follows: Will this be a holiday home for a few weeks a year, or will it be a main residence for spending all or part of the year? A holiday home will likely be left empty for large parts of the year, which means you might be better off with a property that doesn't require a great deal of attention on a regular basis. The last thing you want is for your holiday home to become a burden that interferes with your life. A more permanent home requires greater thought. You plan to spend large parts of the year living there, so you need somewhere that offers you the optimum quality of life. This means considering the local infrastructure and facilities, community, security, accessibility, and so on. For an extensive choice of new and off plan property for sale in Spain on the Costa Blanca and Costa Calida, visit the Novocasa website.