Thanks Swanseajack, its brilliant we are so pleased with it, hope everything works out for you when the time comes!

Rosemary - thanks for the welcome! And the advice, I am having a good look around. L

I hope you enjoy your time in spain and wish you well

Thanks very much Missile, really appreciate it
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If you need any advice or assistance now or in the future, I feel sure someone on the forum will be able to help.

I'm sure we will, and thank you. Just having a good old browse around at the moment. Going back out in December, not sure what weather we are going to find though!

People say you can't buy a house for next to nothing. But you can. You just often have to take on some problem/s which has 'stumped' the previous owners.
it's usually either that they have run out of money. (if so, why?) That they have problems with neighbours or some undetected water leak. Etc you could prob make a list of the top ten likely problems and work through them. If none of those probs are on the list it is in the 'too good to be true' list!

I've never had any real money so I have bought 5 underpriced properties in my lifetime and made a profit on each except the last one which is my 'forever home'. In 4 of the cases the major problem was undetected water leaks. Once found and fixed things look a lot easier and it doesn't have to cost the earth. And in a different subset 3 were in slightly 'dodgy' areas making them really cheap. And one had problem neighbours. If you have the courage to tackle the problems you can get yourself a really nice place for a pittance. But just don't think there's going to be an easy ride on a very cheap place! And if you're the sort that whines when the problem makes itself obvious, don't bother. You'll almost always come unstuck if you look for something for nothing.

I agree. Our's was relatively cheap as it is a mobile home with a timber extension, however if we were paying the price we did for a house, we would know it would be a complete ruin! Our buyers have bought a place in Vera now, they kept our place for 4 years, decided a holiday home in Spain was going to be used regularly, so bought their new house and have decided to retire out there.