British Expats - Cortijo/finca

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Originally Posted by Bri and Katee (Post 11428746)

In estate agents you will usually find a country house advertised as a finca. Wrong maybe but this is how they advertise, ie 'a large country finca for sale, with 7 rooms in need of modernisation'

Its sort of like a Hoover. Everyone calls it a hoover but in reality it is actually a vacumn cleaner.

Only in British estate agents in Spain and they would be wrong

No Spanish person calls a country house a "finca". A finca is a plot of rural land

Cortijos are farm houses although they are generally only called that in the South of Spain

A "chalet" is a detached house