Buying a property in Spain PT 1.

When considering a property near Torrevieja, Spain, several criteria and requirements can help you narrow down your options to find the ideal place:

Location:
Proximity to Amenities: Consider accessibility to shops, restaurants, medical facilities, and transportation.

Community Facilities:
Access to communal spaces, parks, or recreational areas.

Quiet Neighborhood:
Preferential if seeking tranquility away from bustling areas.

Property Features:

Ground Floor or Level: For ease of access, particularly if considering mobility requirements.
Apartment or Compact Housing:
Low-maintenance, easy to manage spaces.
South-Facing Orientation:
Maximizes sunlight, especially in colder months.
Size and Layout:
Opt for a smaller, compact space that’s easy to heat and cool efficiently.
Insulation/Climate Control:
Consider properties with good insulation or climate control systems for comfortable living year-round.

Lifestyle Considerations:
Sunshine:
Properties with ample natural light and outdoor space.
Ease of Maintenance:
Low-maintenance properties or ones with easily managed outdoor areas.
Security: Gated communities or properties with adequate security measures.

Budget and Accessibility:
Affordability:
Ensure the property fits your budget, considering any additional costs like maintenance fees or property taxes.

Accessibility:
Accessibility to public transport or major roads for convenience.

Before finalizing, visit prospective properties to gauge their alignment with your requirements. Consulting with a local real estate agent or property expert in Torrevieja can provide valuable insights and help in finding properties that match your criteria. Additionally, talking to current residents or expatriates in the area can offer practical advice based on their experiences.

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Thank each and everyone of you for subscribing we’ve got over 100 subscribers and we’re we’re thankful for that because we didn’t think we get that many at first I know it takes time to build up thank you every single you ni yeah that nice there’s your little tourist train

Over there it’s just sweeping it out that’s the way out of town up there up the back streets quite a big city really it’s TOA is down there at all the little marking stalls yeah down there you know what I can do a little sweetness there when it goes into D and

I’m going to come I can be in a different place all together chat a little bit might pick it up might not do maybe I can hear a lot of twit about that’s um what you call parakeet parake we’ got parakeet near us Christmas decorations as well aren

They yeah we might have to come down on an evening for Christmas decors i’ got a bit of a wobble on I’m just that that’s that just come past you want to go in there’s a little place across here I want to go Kathy enjoy it if it’s if it’s good tasty

Barbecue food while we’re still in Holiday mode it’s just over here pronounce it vapa Los zamoranos so we’ll go in there another day in the meantime like any City you got people wondering about begging and he got great parking well it’s not on the properly on the zebra is it

She doubt it’s a woman and it looks like these have got tickets not I’ve got back of your red c m you’re doing it again when you’re walk in front I just k back your head all time so it seems like it’s a bit of a

Waste of a waste of time then don’t it yeah I will put this we could do something now for the next video could we yeah we’ve been down to to TOA um a couple of times we visited friends down here so last year what last year last winter on our winter break

Hell he’s selling oranges and fruit from the back of his car if I wanted some I would have uh had to bought some from him they’re all trying to make you living anyway so we came down to um s to near near last mon I when I went to Har

To see George and Jill’s place and we met another couple down here M ly um and we decided last winter when we came on our break we’d have a look at properties obviously we’re not going to buy one we’re not in a rush we had another year to go at

Work but after looking around at all the different areas we saw we saw some areas we liked one of which was the bottom end of cassada amongst other places but we couldn’t afford anything down here you know it’ be nice to be on the front looking at the sea W it K yeah

But I wouldn’t really want listen to the music and all vibrant thing didn’t want want to tell block she wanted a pool but also we made an interesting find when we came down and I’ll tell you in a Second this is nice on all the L are enjoying the music the uh lucky lucky men yeah so we’ve been we were staying in Benny D that last winter and cther booked all the apartments like she usually does we fall out about it because she wants to have

Ni nice very nice on blush apartments and I’m a cheap Sky auction so I just want cheap I just stand real I can’t just watch that stuff blow blows up there look W there’s a haror up there there’s a ship out there lies waiting in the ocean that’s waiting for

Salt to take back to England to put on roads for your salty uh for your icy roads right back to the thing so I got a cheap apartment down in TOA for a month we knew about it and uh it was it was sort of nice it could

Have been nice but it it would have one straight back from these blocks up here one street back and there were no sun on it whatsoever it was frezzing it were like when you walked into the bottom of the building it were like walking into Morrison’s chill CH chill cold fridge

Really cold and then when you got up into the apartment itself it was possibly worse was it yeah the air condition didn’t work properly on the heat yeah we had when he could um put that you have to f a little bit louder I think maybe maybe not maybe

Yeah yeah so the only way to heat the place which had it only had two doors on it a bedroom door I think and a bathroom door and the rest of it were open pln so it were absolutely massive well a massive place to heat um so we we have the air

Conditioner on reverse to give us some heating look at this is a nice nice aspect here I can’t work out do this there’s a zoom on here I could have zoomed it in PST I suppose what’s never yes so how cold was it cath very very very very cold I have my dressing

Gown on dressing on coat on on gloves on blanket round Me blanket round there a little oil fire heat really cold which made us uh realize we don’t want no facing do we no we’ve got to have something where the Sun’s shining all the time or

When it is shining it’s shining on us not past us so we had seen a couple of Apartments which were nice but then when you look on the photographers emeris which shows you the sun direction throughout the world at any time of the year you could see that

There were no sun at different parts of the building the one we’ve bought we went to see that we actually liked it immediately didn’t we it just such a nice area as you driving up it looked lovely and clean and the place were wide and sorry the road were wide so it I

Just looked theart it was beautiful the apartment when I checked the sunshine it came up at the back of the apartment heated the side up and then come right around to the front no thank you it’s what a call cast good good news instead chur that’s just got a church

Thing from joov church I just I like I like there Cliff sir Cliff sir Cliff anyway so next time we’re down here he’ll remember her face he’ll chase her but the Arts in the right place I suppose any who the um so this sun comes up at the

Back goes along and heats all the side of the property up and then goes down at the front in winter in summer it comes definitely comes up at the back right over the top and right down at the front so you’ve always got winter off some you’re always going to get somewhere we

Are which means we know you know about it as well because the apartments a lot warmer than the other one yeah we’ put the uh airon on reverse and just have it at 19 but not every night though Some Nights been um it’s been all

Right so if we’ have been in uh if we didn’t have any sun be cing of the fortune to heat also when we were deciding to buy one of the things were we were used to living in small spaces so it had to be small sorry it

Didn’t have to be small we were used to living in small spaces we lived in a truck in Canada we lived in a caravan in France we lived in a caravan down south in England and up north with in um a smallish property so we’re not too bothered about

Space and the beauty of it is easier to cool easier to cheap toat easier to heat and yeah easier to clean C very easy to clean yeah yeah very easy to clean so small is beautiful and all and the other thing was level ground we want somewhere where

It will level what we’re trying to do is future proof for when we get decrepid which we all it can happen to all of us so we’ve got just a few steps going up the front and then we’re in the apartment no the steps inside excuse

Me some of the ones we looked at were really nice but they were upper floors so like a townhouse with a apartment below and a floor above all we did actually look at town houses didn’t we where they were yeah not apartments up and down it with a whole two floor

Thing and they were lovely but there were actually three floors cuz you got the entrance steps yeah then you’ve got the steps up to the first floor bedrooms and then you’ve got the steps up to the salarium on the roof so that’s a lot of steps a lot of steps to go

Up particularly as the narrow and the rock hard yeah steep as well steep very steep yeah so if you had if you had a a Zimmer or anything like that I think to be honest it would just um not be a go would it no no no it won’t yeah no well as

Nice as these rooftops are if if you do get where you can’t manage to walk up steps you you’ve had it aren’t you I mean what what do you do yeah cuz we’re not doing it for an investment we’re doing it to retire to live here

So it’s got to be right we think so far it’s right we would have liked a little bit bigger maybe I think we would have liked a little bit bigger just a little bit bigger yeah but um everything I did say I was saying early but I never

Finished saying it we we weren’t going to B anywhere I wasn’t anyway and then we looked at different areas we saw what the areas were like which is the idea can look at the areas and then we looked at the um the prices and everything for our budget had gone or was um

Reserved so with no chance oh not no chance I mean very little chance anyway of getting anything in our budget finding something yeah year yeah we thought maybe if we if we leave it we won’t get anything having a limited budget of course so we have to bite the bullet but

We saw this one and we liked it straight away didn’t we so we got this one we dealt with Petra honig guy called Alex at Petra honig everything was smooth sailing I’ll go into finances um later on when we sit down really do back street I know yeah we have to look

At I have to look at notes anyway I can never remember anything so that’s why we chose where we are the particular property it were the price the future proofing and the sunshine you mean it is nearby we’ve got a local bar just down the road Sam which

Is run by a guy called Steve and and his wife’s called Sam but uh she’s more like Piggy Mitchell the nice people anywhere so there’s a little bar down there um which would be our local we’re not going to be going in it all the time mind you not

When we retire there’s a supermarket there Supermarket just around the corner all on on the level uh there’s restaurants nearby Chinese indianan spish anything you want within a short walking distance but there’s also bicycle Lanes which go or bicycle lane rather which goes from where we are just close

To where we are all the way into ton via so when we get electrified up on bikes which that’ll be another story because Kath has never had a bike I assumed she’d had a bike when she was a kid never had one she never had a

Bike one so Kath will be yeah so Kath never had a bitee so she’s basically got to learn to ride a bike but she’s not got any choice have you Kathy no have no choice choices are bik car scoo scooter a little electric scooter a bik electric scooters have

Only got like 20 care tops bikes you can get them that’ll do 40 Care Plus you get the exercise with your legs on a scooter you just stand on them and go but we’ll be doing that electric bikes and off we go down the bike lane all the way into Los monos to

Um uh to V proper and you can get you know got easy access to the Blue Lake the pink lake so it’s a great place to be I mean you can walk anywhere some chairs looking at prices of chairs expensive she wants some of these little chair she wants one of these little

Chairs $30 oh that’s the low ones are these are the ones that you stick in the sand and they’re really low down lot so 30 for them we got some chairs I got some chairs given off some dut gypsies down in um bedfordshire when they we leaving anyway that’s another

Star December what Kath 16th December 16th and they’re still playing games on the beach grabing a bit of sunshine enjoying Meals and drink at the bars selling sunglasses you got to be careful in Spain there’s a lot of um privacy laws it’s difficult sometimes you you can’t take images and videos of kids and publish them unless you’re a journalist if there a TV crew down here that’ be

Filming Everything But as soon as anybody sees you with a camera it can cause problems um and uh I brought the Drone with me but the whole of this area is restricted at the moment so if you see anyone flying a drone they’re going to get

Busted get a big fine unless they’re in a tiny unrestricted area what you say to go to Massy Mass oh we’ve got to go to Massy Mass on the way back we know for we know that one of these Massy masses on here sells a particular wine that c

Likes and you and me and it’s Dirt Cheap so we’re going to go and have a look at that anyway for now look I can’t believe how busy is on beach really bu yeah so for now we’ll leave it at that so bye for now adios well

C what was it that really attracted you to Spain this beautiful sea the lifestyle the blue skies the sunshine what could it have been oh emperado wine €2 a bottle you’re easily bought cat you’re easily bought