Some More Video

Here are some pics that we took today and a video. The video was taken this morning when finally we got some sunshine after a week of cloud and rain. The house photos were taken this afternoon and it is a bit of a shame because the clouds had rolled in and the fantastic views from this house were made a lot greyer.




The videos are of the garden and living room of a house in La Pobla at 290,000 Euros. Excellent place to live surrounded by great facilities and just fifteen mins from Valencia on a good traffic day. Four bedrooms upstairs, a spare room downstairs, living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, toilet and garage along with covered terraces and a shared garden with large pool and friendly neighbours.

The pictures below are of the house in Catadau. The price of 400,000 includes the finishing of the house and surrounding walls and there are options to have a pool if required. The kitchen and the living room are huge and very well presented. There are four bedrooms although one would be better suited to being an office. However the office could go in the kitchen because it is huge. The views are spectacular all the way to Cullera to the south and Valencia to the north east.

News on Prices in the City

Thanks to the blog at Kyero.com for this news from Idealista about average prices in the city of Valencia.

"Idealista.com believes that the second-hand home market in Valencia ‘has ripened and is preparing for a cycle change’, with average prices remaining under €3,000 (at €2,747 per m2). Three districts saw rises above 15%, including Algirós (17.8%), Campanar (17%), and El Pla del Real (15.2%), compared to much lower rises for Benimaclet (3.9%), Poblats Maritims (7%), La Saïdia (8%), Patraix (8.2%), and Camins al Grau (9.9%). Ciutat Vella is the most expensive district in Valencia (at €3,630 per m2), followed closely by L’eixample (€3,607 per m2) and El Pla del Real (€3,512)."

So if you want a property in the old town, gentrifying by the day and offering excellent nightlife and facilities, be prepared to pay for it. What else can we take from this? The America's Cup effect near the Port has blown itself out as the greatest rises are in areas to the West and North West areas of the city well away from the Port. As always, location is the most important thing. The demand is for centrally located apartments and demand drives prices. So if you are looking for investments look in those areas right in town. If you are looking for a good standard of apartment with excellent facilities but are willing to take the metro then look to areas like Benimaclet, Campanar, Malvarrosa etc...

Banks and Cajas. Ethical Money?

Many years ago in the UK there was a clear distinction between banks and building socieites, then in the great Thatcher sell off everything was privatised and building socieites became something to make money with the same as a bank and forgot their original purpose, to serve the community.

Here in Spain the same has happened but to a much lesser degree. The building socieities are run with their social conscience still clear rather like the Co-Operative Bank in the UK. They help with funding for most of the cultural events that occur in Valencia (And I include sponsoring both football and the Opera House in that)and they have a clear set of objectives to help the communities on a social level.

You might want to bear in mind when asking for a mortgage what the bank is going to do with your money that you put into your account and the mortgage repayments. The terms and conditions from banks and building socieites are very similar but at least you know that your money may well do some good in the long run. At the moment CAM is running an awareness campaign to help preserve water, Bancaja is keeping open most of the arts events in Valencia and La Caixa performs a similar job for Catalunya. They are always involved in funding the local fiestas that make living here much more enticing.

The events that they sponsor include all of those shown here in logos and pictures. Here in La Pobla we are in the middle of the Fiestas of San Sebastian at the moment which included the blessing of the animals last Sunday. Two weeks of loads of surprise nighttime firework displays and bonfires.

Value Properties in Olocau and Lliria

Prices seem to have moderated recently and the rises are not as fast as previously. This is good news for anyone coming to buy now as we can get you better value houses and more of them to choose from. I feel that location is always going to be important so it is important to have something different about the house and not just be a clone of hundreds of other houses in the same area.

Here are two good value houses both off the same owner who wants to upgrade to a bigger place in the local area. One is in Olocau and is priced at 240,000 Euros. The other is 10km north of Lliria and costs 210,000 Euros. Both are open to offers and the details of each one are given below.






The first three pics are of the house in Olocau. Here is the description;
A place that although not massively pleasing to the eye from the front is very impressive inside and has an excellent patio terraced area with a sunken pool and lots of space for lazing around and soaking up the sun.

Set about 700m away from the Olocau to Betera road this house has a large plot of some 2000m2 and the house itself is some 130m2 with three large bedrooms, one with an en suite bathroom, to be finished before purchase, two bathrooms, one of which is the previously mentioned en suite and a large living room. The kitchen is on the small side but has everything you could need.

Outside there is a covered terrace at the back, a roof terrace, off road parking, terraced orange groves, the pool with filter and a paellero of course.

There are electric, phone and water connections and it is set in a rural estate after about 700m of track rather than road. Very nice place to chill out.






The second lot of three photos are of the house in Lliria. Very large inside and lots of land.

Spacious and modernised property in the countryside about 11km from Lliria.

The house is large, almost 200m2 of house all on one floor comprising, living room with open plan kitchen, four bedrooms, dining room, two bathrooms, one of which is en suite to the main bedroom and a covered terrace overpooling the orange groves.

The plot is also large with hundreds of orange trees, a dip pool a swimming pool and terraces with gravel and tiled areas.

The drawback, no electric. It has a generator and preinstallation of solar energy, the current owner will put in two panels before sale to finish off the installation. There is water but currently no phone. The whole thing is modernised and comes fully furnished with everything you can see in the pictures.


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A Very Nice Living Room

It looks like the weather is going to turn in the next few days. Spain's ski resorts have had their first real snowfalls of the year and the cold snap is heading this way. Last week was exceptional as temperatures reached 25 degrees. Today was 18 degrees and very sunny but the nights are cool.
Have a look at the video of the inside and a couple of photos below. (You also get to hear my dulcet tones guiding you through the room)