Au Revoir Sal

All of us at Valencia Property would like to say a big thankyou and good luck in the future to Sal, our genius secretary who is leaving us because of family reasons. I am sure there are plenty of clients who would like to thank Sal for all of her help and any mails sent to her old mail address, sal@valencia-property.com will be passed on.
This now leaves us rather short handed over the next few months until our new secretary arrives in September. Therefore please bear with us during this time. It does mean however that all of the little extra jobs that Sal did free for people such as translating at schools, dealing with Telefónica constantly, even reporting a theft near Madrid at the local Guardia Civil for a whole morning etc... cannot now be covered from our workforce as we are just too busy. We will from now on recommend translators to accompany you and professionals for certain services that we previously did but obviously they will have charges. Our free included services are still spelt out on the back of our promotional folders that you receive on arriving and looking at houses with us.
Good luck in the future Sal and you know you are welcome back at any time.

VP in The Costa Blanca News

The project that we donated money to in Cameroon was featured in the Costa Blanca News last week. To view the article go here http://www.malima-project.org/VP_Maria_Cameroon.pdf
Remember that if you wish to contribute and to sponsor a child in the school in Malima there is a sponsorship form at www.malima-project.org and from there you will be given all of the information that you may need.

Where you can see our new houses

We have a bit of a problem, as you will have noticed, that we get so busy we don't have time to update our wesite regularly enough. Therefore we have taken out advertising now with Kyero and our properties can immediately be uploaded to their page for you to look at. This means that when you are planning your visit, if the website hasn't been updated for a time, take a look at our page on Kyero and you will see our latest properties along with all of the others we advertise there. If any of the houses or flats on the page tickle your fancy then get back in touch before you come and tell us you want to see those too.
http://www.kyero.com/search?a_id=1374&p_rental=0
The VP Team

Be Careful Out There

Sal will be helping out a client in the Guardia Civil tomorrow morning after he was robbed today by a policeman, supposedly. Driving down to his house, he was just north of Madrid when he was forced off the road by a police type car, with the passenger of this showing his identification. The car parked in front, a guy dressed as a policeman got out and showed credentials. He claimed that our client had paid at the garage using false notes and asked to see his money. He then insisted on searching the bag of the man's wife and also looked in other bags in the car before going to consult his colleague and hightailing it out of there. Then our client falls for it and realises he is a lot poorer for the experience.
This is happening a lot to foreign registered cars in central Spain so the police recommend the following.
Never get out of the car until you are sure of identification
Lock the car doors.
Wait for the police, in a marked police car, to arrive.
Make an emergency call if necessary.

Sunday Times and Telegraph

The area to the north of Valencia, the Costa del Azahar was featured in the Sunday Times yesterday just as it was in the Telegraph a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately for the researchers on the paper of the four featured properties in the Sunday Times only two were really on the Costa Del Azahar. Nevertheless the article made some very good points and continues the trend to feature Valencia positively in the National Press in the UK and on the TV too with Valencia featured in A Place in The Sun a couple of weeks ago and recommended as the fourth best place to buy in the World by a certain Ms Lamb as mentioned below.
It's good to see a very positive spin on Valencia recently because in the past when the dreaded LRAU law existed people were wary of buying here when really there was not much to worry about if homework was done for you and you did your own investigation.
We are currently extending our range into the area North of Sagunto in order to take into account this very pretty yet rather underdeveloped coast. However we will never promote the ridiculous and rampant expansion that is the Marina D'Or development!