Posts written by Graham Hunt

This week there wasn't supposed to be a blog post. The writer of these posts, that'll be me, Graham, was supposed to be away lapping up the cool, cloudy weather of Asturias in Northern Spain, eating too much, pouring cider from a great height and generally swithching off. However, despite what many people think Covid is still around and it's back big time in Spain this week. It probably got brought back to my house last week from my wife's school and Covid in its infinite wisdom decided to hit the whole family at once, meaning that we didn't have to self isolate in a room at home at least.

When you are negotiating the price and other aspects of a Spanish property purchase you need to understand the seller psychologically. If we are to assume that the seller is Spanish, as the majority of sellers are away from the Costas, then it is necessary to understand how their mind works. In order to do this we need to realize what the Spanish mind thinks, obviously this is a broad generalization but by generalizing you can get an idea of what you need to understand in order to be successful in any property purchase.

When you are looking for a property in Valencia one of the questions you will inevitably ask us is "How long does it take to buy a property in Valencia?" The truth is it can be a lot quicker than you expect and possibly a lot quicker than you are used to in your own country

After Thursday's first ten tips for home staging your Spanish property here are the next ten tips that should tell you how to home stage your property in Spain. Learn from these mistakes and this time they are all my comments to the sellers. As you may be able to imagine none of the properties below got onto the Valencia Property site, apart from the one with the pot bellied pig and cats (It was just so cheap).

Yesterday I was in the Santander bank with a client opening a bank account. The reason we finished up there involves the incompetence of another bank, Banesto, of which you can hear more about here "Why There Is No Hope For Some Spanish Banks". Anyway something really funny happened. Or rather it is funny if you know anything about Spain.

Some clients came over a couple of weeks ago and they have bought a property in Spain that is perfect for them and should suit their purposes down to a T. After my blog post recently advising a client not to buy a property in Spain it was a relief to know that the clients in this case are not living in cloud cuckoo land and know exactly what they wanted out of their property for sale in Spain. Let's look at the facts.

Today we are going to talk about what has been happening, what has changed and the surprises that have happened in the first half of 2021 in Valencia Property. Evidently there have been more sales in the first half of the year than there were last year, after all we spent three months of the first half of 2020 in lockdown. Before you read on though just one question to think about, what are you expecting me to say? People have preconceptions about the property markets they are interested in and sometimes those impressions are totally wrong (Sometimes they are spot on). What do you think is happening on the ground in Valencia

Valencia is a place that benefits from what the World has become over the last couple of years in general. It benefits because the basics for a good life are here with a more than reasonable climate (one of the best in the World according to many official sources), an excellent work life balance, an affordable place for people to move to from many more expensive areas of Europe and the World, a progressive outlook and from it being a comparatively safe place to settle in terms of personal safety and also safety from natural disasters, potential conflicts and more. Moreover it definitely benefits from homeworking and in this article we are going to explain why.

Living in Valencia I have never seen anyone walking about in a flamenco dress, I don't know any bullfighters, not everyone you see is a foreigner, the place doesn't close down in the winter and we don't only rely on tourists to have anything resembling an economy. Valencia is the third biggest city in Spain and it is a totally first world, modern, thriving city on the Mediterranean coast.