More properties!

We were only meeting one agent today, with 4 properties to show us. We were meeting up with another guy, who is Spanish but had spent 20 years in the UK before moving back to Spain and getting involved in the building and property market and was working with our agent in seeling Spanish owned properties.

The first one was a reformed semi set in 3 hectares of land, so off we went.

We met the owner there who had inherited the property reformed it to live in but has now run out of money and so needs to sell it. The adjoining house belongs to his sister, and although she has chosen not to renovate her property, it is out of sight from the house we were viewing, and is predominantly unlived in, as many are here. The sister only visits odd weekends during the year, so wouldn't be popping in for coffee every morning! The house needs a kitchen fitting, the bathroom completing and then the outside landscaping......

...but the views from this place are stunning:

The second property was a new build villa, again in the country, but it didn't do anything for us - so we didn't even go inside.

We were calling off at a full renovation project, which was new on the market, on the way to our next property as our agent needed to take some photos, but first we were calling into town to pick up yet another guy who held the keys. He wasn't there when we arrived to we took the opportunity for a coffee and a break.

This was the renovation project, again, on a hill with fabulous views and was actually 3 properties and some outbuildings and a couple of cave rooms all being sold together - so would make a fantastic country house - but a seriously massive project, (and please note - agent taking photos!)

The last house (farthest away in piccy) was actually habitable but hadn't been lived in since January 1996 - the calendar was still on the wall!

As we set off to the next property I started to get a sense of 'deja-vu'. I know there is a lot of countryside and hundreds of properties, and I knew the next one on the list was a different price BUT....I just had a feeling we were on our way to see a property we had seen on the previous day, oh the joys of multiple agency! I mentioned my suspicions to the agent and as we approched they were confirmed, we had seen it the previous day - and rejected it.

So, onto the final property for the day - this one didn't look much from the outside but inside had a fabulous lounge/dining kichen room - with a log burning fire at one end - it was a brilliant room for living in and entertaining in and was the entire length of the house. At the back of the house were the bedrooms and bathrooms and all really big rooms for a Spanish property. Again, the outside needed finishing off but the potential was all there and more views as before.

So, we had 2 properties to discuss when we got home, the first and the last. Both in the countryside, with good views, 3 bedrooms and some work still to do but not an excessive amount to get them upto a habitable standard. Both less than 10 minutes to the nearest town and both with lots of land for the dogs to roam and play - quite a good day then!