Fredbargate

Try

http://www.libercasa.com/espana/inmobiliaria

Which is a country wide listing which takes you to local estate agents.

Madridboy

Yes, just flick through ildealista.com

Hillybilly

or Kyero

montgomail

or www.fotocasa.es

missile

I have had a spell in hospital in UK and in spain. I would suggest you should have no concern regarding the quality of healthcare in spain.

With EHIC card or as a pensioner, health care is free.

agoreira

Yes, heard some good reports, friend of ours had an op in Granada, and they were very pleased with the treatment. One of the differences seems to be in after care, even though she was private, she was expected to look after him, see to all his needs.

missile

In spain relatives are expected to provide personal care, although care will be provided when a patient has no relatives or they are .......... I prefer this system.

When in UK, the relatives of the patient in the next bed were asked to take his dirty washing for laundering. They expected the hospital to do it and made quite a fuss. The nurse took the laundry away and even appologised to them

pip001

our cortijo is up in the hills single story with a garage and a masive porch and lots of patio and gardens all round with fruit trees and grape vine and tropical plants including date palms, the only down side at the moment is the track to get to it keeps getting washed away but up by ours its conrete and ok its just the first 200 yards thats not good but they started doing that last year but then the rain started so they stopped, be good to get it started again latter this year or before we move out

pip001

i can post on here our estate agent if you want great lady and very helpfull as well made buying ours so easy and she is part english as well so easy to comunicate with
pip

Rotor

I`d say that was inacurate going from what Spanish friends with cortijo`s say,they call any small house in the campo a cortijo and refer to larger ones as casa`s ,or maybe it`s a regional thing.

pip001

ours was called a cortijo by the notary but what would he know he is the legal person that has to sign all the bit and bobs to do with buying a place in spain

missile

A bit like in the UK, where a house in the country might be referred to as a farmhouse, lodge, cottage etc. What does it matter anyway?

pip001

it does not matter at all we are happy with what we have bought and will be great for us and going to retire early there and i know we will have a good life out there, and just for those that are worrying about heathcare out there it is better than britain

jackytoo

Calling a 2 bed campo house a Cortijo is only done by British ex-pats and estate agents. It would sound very pretentious to a spaniard. Bit like owning a cottage in the UK and calling it a mansion or a country estate with lots of land. I have only heard spanish owners who own property in the country call them "casa" or "finca".

jackytoo

Back to topic. Seems you can buy a house for 70K in both countries, but would you really want to? In the UK you could be living next to a housefull of illegal immigrants or in Spain gypsy squatters. Different if you are going to rent. I would go for the UK though. With the generous rent allowance it will always be rented. In Málaga the number of renters with long-term arrears is 30%+