Why You Should Move to Spain NOW!

Morning Bill, hope all is well with you.

I thought I would drop you a quick line and spread some positive thoughts.

Sadly, my 94yr old Mother passed away on the 24th September, and I attended her funeral in the UK last week. However, during conversations with my only brother, who always said he stayed in England to be close to her, I suggested there was now nothing stopping him from moving to Spain. His response was that he probably won't in the foreseeable future as there is a major economic crisis in Spain, with unemployment running at 25% and the exchange rate has still not recovered sufficiently. Basically, all doom and gloom!

I thought for a moment and said "Hang on a minute, you are forgetting one important thing - Spain is still a fantastic place in which to live !" "A draft beer is still only one Euro, coffee one Euro, a nice bottle of wine is only 2 Euros, my car tax is 45 Euro a year, I have a 400 sqM house and pay only 98 Euro a year rates, we can get an excellent 3 course 'menu del dia' for 7 Euro, we have had sunshine and no rain since April, and we can plan a bbq a month ahead and know we will get great weather".

In addition, I explained that, like me, he draws his full State pension plus private pensions, and suggested he could live a very good life here on his current income, and be insulated from the so called 'crisis'.

Having lived here full time for 12 years, both my wife and I agree that the actual cost of living as a resident is about half of the cost in the UK. As a tourist on one week's holiday, you wouldn't see that as you pay everything at tourist rates, especially on the Costas.

As everyone focusses on the European wide crisis, I think that's a fundamental and important factor most people are forgetting - SPAIN IS A FANTASTIC PLACE TO LIVE. OK, so you need either a pension or a business you can run from here in order to have a sustained income. So . . . . . . .!. What's the problem?

Regards

Mervyn
Algarinejo 

Mervyn is selling "Finger In" on behalf of a family member.

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Rent To Buy

I got an irate call from a competitor and friend (yes that’s what I said, we enjoy friendly competition and co operate as well from time to time!) who got the wrong end of the stick in last week’s newsletter warning of the perils of “guaranteed rentals”. She thought I was criticizing “buy to rent” which is something she recommends. Nothing could have been further from my mind because in today’s market “buy to rent” is an excellent idea.

Everyone knows that Spain has for a long time been a popular destination for holiday makers and in my experience hard economic times are perversely good for Spanish rentals. Why? People still want their holidays, they still want guaranteed sun but they don’t want to break the bank. So good bye Maldives, hello Spain! I used to own apartments in Estepona and the best rental year I ever had was in the depths of Mrs Thatcher’s recession! No one booked ahead, everything seemed to be last minute but we were nevertheless packed for months on end. Many of my friends involved in holiday rentals in Andalucia are experiencing the same trend this year, making buying a home in the country a genuine investment opportunity.

There is also a very strong demand from people nervous of making a commitment to buying who are instead renting long term. If you are looking to invest this is a perfect situation; good, committed, tenants who should be buying but haven’t got the courage to invest themselves so instead pay you! It may seem a bit daunting to go against the trend but that is how you make a successful investment; the same herd (flock?) that is afraid to invest at the bottom of the market is the one that can’t pay enough at the top!

I have tried to include some good renters this month along with the usual new listings, price reductions and bargain deals but if you would like to discuss buy to rent in greater detail please get in touch any time.

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Now Is The Hour

We all know the saying that "you should live every day as if it's your last"! BUT, how many of us do that? And how many of us say, as we grind out the routine days, that things will be different at the week end, on the summer holiday, at Christmas, in the New Year. Or that we will make that move abroad when the Pound goes up, prices come down or aunt Betty leaves you an inheritance. The fact is that most of us are hidebound by fear of the unknown and a fear of change.

Before I moved to Spain some 16 years ago I talked to anyone I could find who had lived there seeking an insight into living in the country. A lot of those people had obviously returned "home" so I was expecting some pretty damning comments. In some cases they had "lost their shirts" buying and running a bar (an all to common occurrence) and in another because a gentleman's daughter liked the place too much (imagine having plane loads of new boys arriving every week end right through the season!) but one thing they all had in common was that they loved the experience. This seemed a bit strange at the time but I came to understand that for their time in Spain they were living every day. And even though they had returned home, sometimes in difficult or disappointing circumstances, they never regretted taking the chance and living the experience.

So, if you are thinking of moving abroad, or just buying a holiday home, don't delay, come and see us now! The fact is that many distressed sale house prices are well below replacement cost or the prices being paid more than 10 years ago. For these properties there isn't scope to fall further! So don't delay, you haven't got time to waste. 

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Properties for sale in Loja, Granada, Andalucia

Sometimes I wonder what Bill Tickle puts in his Cocoa of a night because he has given some strange names to his properties before but here is one called ‘4 Musketeers’ in a place called Ventorros de Balerma which you will find near Loja in the Granada province of Andalucia. Why call a property ‘4 Musketeers?’ god knows but it’s just Bill’s way of taking the mundane out of looking at properties because people do tend get a little bored trawling through reference numbers, so, ‘4 Musketeers’ it is.

“Yes! But he must have had a bump on the head because the price looks very low!” that’s your next observation but you would be very wrong and although the price seems extremely low for such a great Andalucia property, it really is only 49,000 Euro!!!!

Bill, with his usual astuteness for sniffing out properties has really found you a bargain here go to the main Tickle International Property main website and see more photographs and full details, you’ll be glad you did. 4 Musketeers

PS While you’re there, take a look at Goa, Goa Going! (Yes, another stupid name but another fantastic bargain!

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