Hello,
I have just retired and I am currently looking at properties in the Alfaz Del Pi area near to Benidorm.

I would appreciate some guidance on purchasing a property in Spain, the pitfalls and the best estate agents in that area. I have been dealing with Wunch Immo at Alicante who provide good video tours of properties.

Steve,
Many Thanks, one concern I have is getting my money out of Spain if I purchase a property and sell it, do you know if it’s difficult.?

Many thanks to all that have responded, any further comments would be appreciated.

Thank you, dealing with an estate agent based in Alicante that has quite a few properties in the Alfaz Del Pi area. Planning a visit soon to have a look.

Many thanks for the recent post responses.

Can you elaborate on how one would find if a property is legal. Does this mean a local town hall inquiry or higher up the legal hierarchy.

Many Thanks

Many thanks for for your prompt response, yes I will investigate further.

Hi how did you manage to sell your properties we are trying to sell ours on with two estate agents but nithing yet and heed to sell due to personal reasons any help please

Thanks for you thread message, the property I was interested in was sold to someone else before I had chance to visit Alfaz Del Pi. I’m currently still looking for a property.

We have just bought and moved in to our home in Valencia. We spent three years looking at properties both online and in person. We visited many areas and Last August we spent a month looking at properties and made an offer on this property in the last week of our visit.
we visited place in the sun exhibitions, browsed and participated in forums such as this and others, Facebook sites and read tales of woe from others who had bought property but not employed an independent solicitor or even any solicitor at all which lead to the majority of problems.
Our solicitor found a couple of anomalies with buildings not registered on our property which were rectified by the seller and money held back from the sale to facilitate this.
We had Spanish lessons prior to coming out here ( doesn’t prepare you fully though :) )
We thought of questions where something may go wrong and posed it on a forum to find the answer.
All I can say is research as much as possible.

Good luck!

Well you certainly were very extensive in your search and taking the correct legal advice plus preparation for the move. Well done, I do hope all goes well.