irishactress

I am moving to Fuengirola, but need to find an honest housing estate agent who could show me some apartments that are for sale. Anyone know anyone decent out there who I could work with.

stuboy

Is there an honest one born? Best you get over here and speak to the locals

Lospacoshombre

Hi

The most honest one I know is Peter Fletcher of Dacha estates in Los Boliches, google his number.

Arriba are quite good, you will find then on the front at Los Boliches.

YPS are pretty good too.

Some are liars and cheats, one in particular I would avoid, PPm me for details. I have looked for a year or so, and honestly found Fotocasa and pisos.com the best source for properties, and if they are with agent view them and make your own mind up. If you view lots it soon becomes apparent what are silly prices!

regards
Al

Domino

when the Better Half was looking for a place outside the big city she drew up a list of requirements and passed it out to half a dozen "estate agents".
They were so desparate they showed her anything and everything, one was falling down but "the owner will do some repairs before you move in", another was an hour's drive down tracks to get to the motorway for work. With a minimum of 3 bedrooms with integral garage being asked for the number of properties with 1 or 2 bed with on street parking 10 minutes away was astronomical. Many weren't even any use for holiday lets as the only transport would have been hire car or taxi everywhere.

The only honest one we have found in the past 3 years was in the centre of Granada, Spanish with little English who actually brought in an English language student from the university to translate for us, at no extra charge.
Him I would recommend - but its miles from Fuengirola, sorry.

megmet

They are few and far between!

The best thing that you could do is look at all the estate agents web sites...as many as you can.
Take a look at what's on offer and compare between sites as here in Andalucia the agents all pool the housing stock!
You will find many different asking prices for the same property on the agents listings, we found a 13.000€ difference on the house we bought.

irishactress

On average what do you pay for property taxes per year on a 2 bed apartment. Is that the same as council tax? Thanks.

Craig7

Where would you you guys recomend for value for money, in the area?

jojojojojo

Its a renters market. You simply need to find a place that suits you and your needs. Then put an offer on and negotiated

Jo xxx

scolly52

Please note Peter Fletcher is an unlicenced freelancer and works on commission only. Dacha/Arriba/YPS all OK.
If you need a good lawyer PM me for details, major rotweiller !!!

Have fun and good luck

Lospacoshombre

Hi,
For value, that is a toughie, as the area is an expensive part of the coast. I find that after Fuengirola it gets cheaper from El Faro to Calahonda. If this area rocks your boat then you can buy villas for less than 180k, but this area you need a car, there is no real town as they are urbs.

There are a lot of rubbish villas on the market which need 0000s of pounds spending and there are loads that are over priced. Patience is the key and hours of trawling fotocasa and kyero, pisos. com etc.

Do not listen to agents, research research research.

regards
Al

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