Underestimated costs
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For us the consideration is how to best use the cash - buy in Spain or use the money to buy a cash generating asset. We use BTL as it's what we know. With BTL I can get 8% yield, so £250k in UK property will gross about £20k and net about £14k less tax . The break even point is about €1400 a month. Although we might be able to rent a villa worth more than £250,000 for €1400 per month, but, as I said, there's not a lot about. And the other potential issue is rent might go up in Spain quicker than the UK, and exchange rate fluctuation.
Do you have an accountant in the UK? You should be netting more than £14k.
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So 12k gross
Minus 8% EA fees
Minus 8% management fees
Minus 10% insurance, repairs and maintanance
Minus 20% tax
Would be more like 7k net income per year i.e. around GBP600 per month. About half what the OP suggests
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I actually disagree with all those figures. You can't get 20k gross rent a year from a 250k property in the UK. You would be lucky to get 1k per month rent
So 12k gross
Minus 8% EA fees
Minus 8% management fees
Minus 10% insurance, repairs and maintanance
Minus 20% tax
Would be more like 7k net income per year i.e. around GBP600 per month. About half what the OP suggests
So 12k gross
Minus 8% EA fees
Minus 8% management fees
Minus 10% insurance, repairs and maintanance
Minus 20% tax
Would be more like 7k net income per year i.e. around GBP600 per month. About half what the OP suggests
Last edited by dibyrne; Jun 1st 2016 at 10:44 pm.
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Boiler maintenance and gas certs - 200
Maintenance 1% of value - 2500
Void - typically about 5% - 1000
Total = 5,700
20k - circa 6k = 14k. And I'd get even less if used an accountant!
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Correct. CM hasn't a clue what he's talking about and will not be helping the Op by giving this baseless and inaccurate information. But he's got form.
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Sorry, I should have said that the Costa blanca was pretty much the cheapest area to buy property on the Med Coast.
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Op,
I know of somebody else who started looking around Javea and eventually settled in the area of Castellon de la Plana. All sorts of housing options and prices surrounding it, and now that the airport is open it's more accessible than before. You might want to take a look.
I know of somebody else who started looking around Javea and eventually settled in the area of Castellon de la Plana. All sorts of housing options and prices surrounding it, and now that the airport is open it's more accessible than before. You might want to take a look.
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Op,
I know of somebody else who started looking around Javea and eventually settled in the area of Castellon de la Plana. All sorts of housing options and prices surrounding it, and now that the airport is open it's more accessible than before. You might want to take a look.
I know of somebody else who started looking around Javea and eventually settled in the area of Castellon de la Plana. All sorts of housing options and prices surrounding it, and now that the airport is open it's more accessible than before. You might want to take a look.
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https://data.kyero.com/en/data/spain
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This is also not correct, the Costa Blanca is a long coast you will see prices in the Marina Alta(javea /moraira etc) are all but on a par with the Costa del sol and are much higher than southern costa blanca and Murcia etc.
https://data.kyero.com/en/data/spain
https://data.kyero.com/en/data/spain
This data is a bit misleading to be honest and you always need a lot more factors. Just because they show average prices for a whole province doesn't mean you can't find cheaper properties in the area. It just means that there are probably more exclusive properties that cost millions, the area is less built up, so fewer smaller apartments, or in the case of Barcelona a huge city where most jobs are. Girona shows 221K, but you can find plenty of detached houses for a lot less.
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This is also not correct, the Costa Blanca is a long coast you will see prices in the Marina Alta(javea /moraira etc) are all but on a par with the Costa del sol and are much higher than southern costa blanca and Murcia etc.
https://data.kyero.com/en/data/spain
https://data.kyero.com/en/data/spain
And the Costa Brava. Laughable.
But Pete, he won't be told, so don't waste your time.
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This data is a bit misleading to be honest and you always need a lot more factors. Just because they show average prices for a whole province doesn't mean you can't find cheaper properties in the area. It just means that there are probably more exclusive properties that cost millions, the area is less built up, so fewer smaller apartments, or in the case of Barcelona a huge city where most jobs are. Girona shows 221K, but you can find plenty of detached houses for a lot less.
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This data is a bit misleading to be honest and you always need a lot more factors. Just because they show average prices for a whole province doesn't mean you can't find cheaper properties in the area. It just means that there are probably more exclusive properties that cost millions, the area is less built up, so fewer smaller apartments, or in the case of Barcelona a huge city where most jobs are. Girona shows 221K, but you can find plenty of detached houses for a lot less.
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Indeed, I wouldn't argue with that but it is a guide, after all, if an area's average price is brought up by having properties worth millions then that by it's very nature leads to higher prices being asked for property in the area because of the "exclusivity " this brings to the locality
Places like Begur would be very expensive, but around Blanes, Lloret, Tossa it's far more affordable, especially a few mins inland, but even these more built up areas aren't what you'd see in Alicante or Benidorm.
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That's a pity, you seemed to have it worked out and it appeared entirely feasible. I would be surprised if you can't find something suitable in Javea given a little time.