New Houses and All About Marchena

A real country house and villa special this week. Lots of new and updated properties including a few from an area I haven't covered before around Gandia on the Costa del Azahar (The Orange Blossom Coast). I remember a particularly happy family holiday in the area many, many, years ago which even today my kids (now 25 and 29!) talk about. I will prepare some information on the area shortly when I have uploaded a few more of these beautiful houses.

For now can I introduce you to the Marchena area; a corner of Andalucia that has seen amazing price drops but has so far remained under most buyers radar.

Marchena, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

A prosperous, full service town with excellent communications surrounded by rolling agricultural land.

Marchena is a thriving, prosperous, market town in the province of Sevilla just 60 miles from the City of Sevilla and it’s airport whilst Malaga airport and the costa is about 90 minutes away with virtually the whole route on motorways.

The town has the usual long history beginning in Roman times and with buildings remaining from most eras since! Worthy of note however are the preserved remains of the old town walls including the Torre de Oro and Arco de la Rosa Gate. Then there is the parish church of San Juan Bautista and the Plaza Ducal,  a colonnaded square.

Today Marchena offers everything you need for day to day living including Doctors, Dentist, 24 hour Medical Centre, Supermarkets, Banks etc.

Local road communications are excellent with easy access to the nearby A92 Sevilla – Malaga/Granada motorway or, rather further away the A4 Sevilla – Cordoba/Madrid motorway.

 Public transport includes regular, cheap, buses to Sevilla and all points North, South, East and West whilst Marchena railway station gives connections to Seville and Malaga from both of which a there are high speed rail links to Madrid and beyond.

 The town is surrounded by rolling hills and rich agricultural land, La Campiña . The area is also a center for the breeding of Spanish horses and there are many stables in the area. Many of our Marchena houses are in this rolling countryside where you can enjoy country living within minutes of all mod cons.  

For me the most eye catching feature of the town are the storks nests! These big birds construct huge nests on the spires and towers of the town and seem oblivious of the human life going on around them.

If you are interested in the Marchena area you should also take a look at these Country Houses in nearby La Puebla de Cazalla.

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Market Trends - Property Types

I am forever being asked what the property market in Spain is going to do and my reply is that there isn’t one market, there are many!

Madrid and Barcelona are different markets, subject to different forces to the costas or inland Andalucia for example. That’s why averages are of no help in telling you what is going on and why most figures given by the media are totally meaningless. It will be helpful however to look at the specific areas that I cover where there are some clear trends emerging.

There is strong demand for coastal property as long as it is cheap and well positioned. Unfortunately a huge number of apartments were built in the boom to be sold off plan that are disasters as homes. Build quality is frequently abysmal whilst layout and amenities are worse! Swimming pools tucked away in ugly corners and apartments over divided. What do I mean by this? Put simply the developers put a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment into a floor space that would have made a nice, spacious, 1 bed. This results in all the rooms being too small and cramped; kitchens you can’t work in, bedrooms without storage and so on. On the plans and in the artists impressions all was well but in real life…! So before jumping at a bargain take a moment to think what it will look like with furniture and people in it. Properties like this should be avoided like the plague.

The availability of apartments (and they aren’t all bad – there are bargains about) and modern townhouses has impacted on the value of traditional village houses which have plummeted in price. There are some great bargains about just now.

Inland country houses and villas have also come down in price but nowhere near as much as village properties. That probably reflects the fact that the demand for them is stronger; most people would rather have a detached home, ideally with a pool, then a terraced village house. These are prime properties and prices are holding up much better.

The most striking feature of the current market however is that there are an awful lot of people sitting on the fence! They want to buy that home in the sun but they don’t want to commit until they are sure the market has bottomed. This indicates that there is a big pent up demand and once the market turns it will move up quickly. Unfortunately for these people it is never easy to catch the absolute bottom and we are obviously very close to it so if you see the house that suits your dreams and your pocket, get off the fence!

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Andalucia Property Sales, Country House in Marchena, Spain

Country House in Marchena, Spain Ref:3167

Some people move to Andalucia from the UK and abroad with the sole purpose of setting themselves up in a small Bed and Breakfast (B&B) guesthouse or a boutique hotel and to be fair this is not a bad idea as the rural tourism in Andalucia is one of the top success stories in the Spanish economy with only the Canary Islands attracting more visitors, not only that but the rural tourism in Andalucia has increased year upon year for the last six years and shows no signs of slowing down.

For this very reason we are happy to offer you this amazing property for sale Ref: 3167, two near identical villas that are located in a country plot but not far from the main motorway, located within ten minutes of Marchena and La Puebla de Cazalla near to Seville.

You could live in one villa whilst renting out the other and reasonably expect to make 15,000€ per year in rental. Please visit our main website for full details and photographs of this fantastic Andalucia property and grab yourself a dream. Ref: 3167

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