Moses2013

Well, I would think that a larger 3 storey house is a lot harder to maintain than a smaller bungalow and especially for people who get older, walking up and down stairs will be a problem. You can get somebody to cut a lawn for a tenner, but a larger townhouse further inland will need more heating than a smaller detached house near the coast during winter. Then you have to consider other things like distance to supermarkets etc. Of course it will depend on the village but some areas will always be more prone to burglaries than others, even if it is townhouse. You also need a permit for everything in Spain, so buying a prefab steel frame garage from a registered company will not be more hassle than wanting to change tiles. You still have to get the permit in both cases.

cermignano

Are the garages and floors there because extended family stayed on upper floors and animals stayed on the ground floor originally?

bfg69bug

theres loads of houses like this in alhaurin el grande. Our first house was this way, I had my classic car in there when I arrived.

Idealista is rubbish because the estate agents are lazy. - When you "upload / list" a house there is a series of boxes to click on the features that the house has. garage, garden, parking, lift, etc. If the agent clicks on garage instead of parking.. the house comes up in the searches..

m2m2012

Idealista is certainly not as good as Zillow in the USA that's for sure.

In the custom area I drew on the Idealista map had over a thousand village or town houses that had a "garage". I looked at everyone of them (!) and found just over fifty had a 2 car garage that I consider big enough for my needs in my price range; so rare but not impossible to find. A handful of places had huge garages. There was one village house with a 200sqm garage at ground level underneath the house like the one above. I think the owner owned farm land in the surrounding countryside and stored his tractor and equipment there. Seek and ye shall find ( Matthew 7:7).

Tweedpipe

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" (Monty Python 19:75)
Sorry, just couldn't resist........

m2m2012

Mentioning Monty Python on a BritExpat Spain forum is a dangerous game! Remember Manuel from Faulty Towers? Spanish delegates at the 1979 Montreux Television Festival complained that the Spanish character Manuel was "an insult to the Spanish people". see:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/andr...04-gt3fwv.html

m2m2012

I wonder if Faulty Towers is the reason why the Guardia Civil are allegedly targeting British plated cars in Spain???

el collado kid

I think you will find a lot of british plated cars are illegal or their owner does not have a correct licence or paper work.Hench the rush for a spanish drivers licence which can now take up to six month's. and the police know this.

bfg69bug

I´ve been looking for a "villa" with double garage for ages. its literally my "ideal home / dream". I´m also a classic car enthusiast,(vw beetles) and it makes me so annoyed when it says garage and there isnt. I´ve emailed a few of the agents to ask for pictures and plans just to make them feel silly

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good. get them all off the road. I **some** of the foreign plated cars are my customers, but i have no sympathy. know the law or not, nobody would consider driving a car in the UK without MOT or valid insurance, so why on earth would anything be different in another European country.

m2m2012

How about this:
https://www.idealista.com/en/inmueble/82708223/
Plenty of room for your bugs here, plus a fireplace to keep you warm while working on your cars in winter.

bfg69bug

I would love that, but I work at Malaga Airport

m2m2012

So where are you storing your bugs now?

bfg69bug

I've no bug right now *big sad face*.. Im in the market for another one.

but if i had one and i didnt have room.. We have 40 thousand square metres at work.. I could have 20 and nobody would notice.. *ideas* hahah