costa de la luz News

Newly elected members of the AIPP(Assocciation of Property Professionals) are fighting to raise the professional standards of the estate agency in Spain, which has been lacking in recent years with many people having been left owning illegal houses.

With the announcement in the media on Friday 1 July that the Supreme Court has nullified the Chiclana town plan and another is to be drawn up by 2013, many peoples hopes of moving forward with the urbanisation situation in Chiclana have been dashed.

Cadizcasa the well known Costa de la Luz estate agent have featured in a Sunday Times article entitled No frills, but plenty of thrills and spills. The agency are becoming favourites for giving the inside story on what is happening on the Coast.

Lesley McEwan at Cadizcasa Ethical Estate Agents has been involved with helping clients who purchased illegal houses for some time and is now using her very popular website www.cadizcasa.com to bring important news and developments.

Lesley McEwan at Cadizcasa Ethical Estate Agents is using her very popular website www.cadizcasa.com to promote valuable information from The British Embassy and get it spread as widely as possible in the Costa de la Luz area.

Lesley McEwan, Managing director of ethical estae agents, Cadizcasa, reports on her recent meeting with the British Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman, and the continuing Spanish parliamentary debate concerning the illegal housing issue in Spain.

Special envoys for the Britsh Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman, arrive in Chiclana on fact finding mission.

After thieves stole,all of their winter food supply and wrecked various installations, Lesley McEwan, managing director of estae agent Cadizcasa appealed to friends and clients to rais funds.

Golfers can now book a great value luxury short golf break at the world-class Islantilla Golf Resort on the beautiful and unspoilt Costa de la Luz

Lesley McEwan of Cadiz Casa estate agents based in Chiclana but covering the Costa d la Luz, comments on the resurgence of the property market in Spain and the strengthening pound.

Spain has something to cheer about! Worthy world cup winners.

The fabulous and popular beaches of Chiclana and Sancti Petri have received top quality awards.

Lesley McEwan, Managing director of well know Costa de la Luz estate agent cadizcasa has announced their sponsorship on the new radio online radio station. Lesley also hosts a weekly magazine show, gossip girls.

Spain’s National Statistics Institute reported on 13 April 2010 that house sales have risen at their fastest rate since records began in 2007. Is this the first real sign of recovery? Costa Cálida based estate agents Mercers certainly think so.

This top of the range conversion in Medina-Sidonia on the Costa de la Luz effortlessly combines high-tech elegance and all the home comforts that you would expect of a five-star Spanish lifestyle.

The second half of 2009 saw a slight upturn in the Spanish property market with the banks beginning to release funds again. However, it is still a buyers market with many bargains to be had.

To legalise or not to legalise “the great chiclana debate”

Whilst there’s little doubt that life is returning to the Spanish property market, it still remains utterly price sensitive. For real estate agent Mercers, this means a conscious shift in its Jerez property portfolio to the best value options.

A new rail link is under construction between Cadiz City the capital of the province and Chiclana. It is timed to coincide with the arrival of the new high speed AVE line between Cadiz and Seville in 2012 and the Jerez Airport rail link and station.

Whilst indeed the press reports are correct, the Spanish property market has started to whirr back into motion, it remains highly price sensitive. Basically only if the price is right will the property sell.

Real estate agent, Mercers, has just launched its newest concept which is ideally suited to today’s Spanish property market - Rent2Buy. With purchasers hesitating and vendors despondent, a Rent2Buy arrangement bridges a win-win gap between the two.

Thriving in a tricky marketplace, Spanish real estate agent Mercers has just seen a good year get even better with the announcement of a ‘Best Real Estate Agency Spain’ Award for the second year running.

When Suzannah (47) and Terry (47) Jordan first got wind of the Costa de la Luz it was on a Channel 4 TV programme and they had to get the encyclopedia out to locate it.

Occupying the final plot of developable land in Matalascañas, Agua y Vida will adopt a touristic structure whereby owners can mix personal use in a luxury hotel ambience alongside guaranteed rental yields in their absence.

A developer on Spain’s Costa de la Luz is tabling its best offer in order to stimulate sales of key-ready townhouses ‘Hoyo 14’. With prices from 205,500 euros and a 100% mortgage up for grabs this ‘no money down’ deal is investment gold.

As we hit the downward slope to Winter (how many shopping days ‘til Christmas?) it’s swimwear off, knitwear on and the prospect of months of gloomy grey skies. Unless you live in Huelva that is.

Don’t panic, Zapatero hasn’t been taking tips from the Brits on how to handle delinquent youths, instead it’s the massive rise in “Almost Sold Back On Market” property littering estate agents books.

With average prices down by 20% on the western Costa de la Luz and the pound making an 18% recovery from the start of the year, Titan Properties is reporting interest from property buyers keen to take advantage of a 38% discount ‘wake-up call’.

Many harbour an ambition to be César Ritz and run a hotel. Jerez estate agents, Mercers, have two city-centre homes available which will allow just that. Both have enough period flair to satisfy the late ‘King of Hoteliers and Hotelier of Kings’

Even with the magic formula of ‘sun+beach+golf’ many holiday resorts come a cropper. Over-built, over-crowded and over-hyped. But not Costa Ballena. This development in southern Spain constitutes a blueprint for holiday resorts of the future.

The townhouse development of ‘Hoyo 14’ set within one of Costa de la Luz’s most attractive golf courses – Nuevo Portil – has been elevated to prime real estate thanks to confirmation of a build license for a substantial commercial facility.

Many commentators offer their opinions on the Spanish Property market – but are they close enough to the truth? The following Qs have been A’d by real Spanish property experts. Experts who have been in the business on Iberian soil for years.

West Costa de la Luz has been holding its own in property values. But you can’t swim against the tide forever so Titan Properties has recently published its first ‘Distressed Sales List’ highlighting keenly priced properties in the area.

The Spanish property market isn’t conducive to moving right now but it is to improving. With tradesmen twiddling their thumbs you can drive a hard bargain. What better project to tackle than a 300-yr old bakery in the Andalucia's Medina Sidonia?

On Spain’s Costa Cálida real estate agent Mercers isn’t letting a pesky recession get in the way of selling houses. The secret is simple. Offer bargain property that’s hard to resist, like a two bedroom terraced golf villa for 55,000 euros

The role of a tourist board is quite simply to highlight the country’s finest aspects. Spain’s board is currently using the picture-postcard beach of El Rompido in Huelva in an international print advertising campaign. What better endorsement?

Having shown initial resilience to the Spanish property slowdown the Costa de la Luz has finally succumbed to the inevitable and, faced with a diminishing pool of buyers, decided to waft various price reductions and incentives under people’s noses.

Titan Properties cite their professional approach to real estate as a major contributing factor to success in this years’ CNBC-sponsored European Property Awards as they walked away with Best Real Estate Agency Spain.

After 25yrs at the forefront of the Spanish property market, Mercers see their recent award win at the CNBC-sponsored European Property Awards as an endorsement of their business and a real pat on the back for a quarter of a century of hard work.

Every rule must have its exception and in terms of the Spanish real estate market that exception is Jerez. Whilst much of Spain is feeling the heat of a slowdown, this Andalucian city is happy in the knowledge that its property prices are going up.

Spain’s largest golf resort Costa Esuri, covering 6.5 million square metres of land and encompassing 6,000 properties and two 18-hole golf courses is already eyeing the finish line less than five years since breaking ground.

The city of Jerez is known for its fortified wine however few realize it’s the cradle of the gypsy-Andalucian art of flamenco. In order to redress this balance the Council of Jerez is building its ambitious project ‘La Ciudad del Flamenco’.

A 17% drop in value for the pound against the euro versus this time last year. British investors are talking themselves out of an overseas purchase, but many are scaring themselves unnecessarily and crunching the wrong numbers.

Whilst Spanish construction giants are sobbing into their cervezas at the slowdown of their industry holiday home hunters are cracking open the cava as a market slowdown forces developers to think creatively about how to attract buyers.

When you look at the Blue Chip team behind western Costa de la Luz real estate advisory experts, Titan Properties, it’s unsurprising to discover that they’re charting the progress of this unspoilt region with independent research and hard facts.

An idea first conceived over 30 years ago in 1976 has finally been given the green light – Huelva, capital city of the south westerly Spanish province of the same name, is to receive its own International Airport.

Before you rule out Southern Spain as being too expensive for a second home, turn your attention to the southerly province of Huelva on the western Costa de la Luz where a one bedroom apartment in Jardines del Guzman comes in at just 54,505 euros.

You can’t please everyone in a holiday home, or so you thought. Hoyo 19, the latest release on the popular golfing resort of Nuevo Portil on the western Costa de la Luz, could just be the glue that holds that family holiday together.

The province of Huelva on Spain’s SW coastline embodies the sentiment of the Costa de la Luz (Coast of Light) perfectly. Huelva has a huge five times more sunlight than N Europe, an intriguing chestnut to savour as you button up your cardigan.

Retirement isn’t what it used to be. No longer is ‘generation Xperience’ resigned to the zimmer, they’re younger and more active than ever. Many opt for a complete change of scenery and La Cigüeña in Spain would be right up their street.