Brand new properties together worth almost €5 million have been sold in the Almeria region of south-east Spain in the past three months by the Cheltenham-based Almanzora Group.
The achievement, described by the company as a turning point in recent market conditions, comprises sales of 12 properties – a mix of good quality individual villas, beach houses and cottages – at Desert Springs, Europe’s only international award-winning luxury family resort and championship desert golf course, in the traditional fishing village Villaricos and at nearby Playa Marques where a three-bedroom, two-bathroom beach house on its seven kilometre long Great Sandy Beach, El Playazo, sold for €575,000.
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| A three-bedroom, two-bathroom beach house like this one at Playa Marques in the Almeria region of south-east Spain has just sold for €575,000. It is one of 12 properties which together have been sold for almost €5 million in the past three months by the Cheltenham-based Almanzora Group. For more information call +44 (0) 1242 680 299 or visit www.almanzora.com |
Reporting total sales worth €4,937,500, the company’s sales and marketing manager, Simon Coaker, said: “Over the years, the property market in Spain has proved to be extremely cyclical, much more so than it is in the UK; this recent market activity suggests that the wheel is turning again, at least for the better quality, more individual, properties in new and progressive ‘upwardly mobile’ locations. For that reason, now is the time to pick out and buy the better new properties available in those areas in Spain.
”Prices have been at their lowest for six years but are bound to start rising again if sales of such properties continue at this level. No matter how great the oversupply of poor quality, mass built apartments, in secondary locations around the old tourism centres, the actual supply of good quality individual properties in relatively new, less developed, locations – which are the future of residential tourism in Spain – remain in short supply.”
Simon predicts: “Although setbacks occur in any economy, the overall market in Spain and in its coastal provinces will recover in due course to even greater values, undreamed-of at the height of the previous boom.”
He says that this is because, despite the recent cyclic downturn in confidence affecting the immediate market, more powerful long term underlying trends ensure that potential demand continues over the longer period.
“Not least amongst these trends are the ageing population across Europe coupled with ‘regional shift’ from the cold north of Europe to the warm south, and in particular, the sun belt that is southern Spain,” says Simon. “This is made possible by Europeanization itself, the common currency, increased mobility within Europe and improved communications. In effect the long term market for property in the south of Spain includes the whole of northern Europe.”
Case study:
Among recent buyers of properties at Desert Springs are retired company finance director George Boyle and his wife Carolyn of Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
Having sold a small villa in the southern Spanish village of Mijas, which was the base for numerous summer holidays before their two children grew up and left home, George says he “fell in love with Spain all over again” during visits to a friend’s holiday home at Desert Springs.
“It’s a super resort and the properties are good value,” said George. “Having experienced life there – as well as the excellent golf course – during stays with our friends, we decided to buy a home of our own.”
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| Pictured is a spacious four-bedroom detached Arizona villa with its own private pool of the type bought at Desert Springs by George and Caroline Boyle of Amersham in Buckinghamshire. For details call +44 (0) 1242 680299 or visit www.almanzora.com |
Now that their daughter has presented them with a baby grandson and their son is about to be married, the Boyles anticipate high demand for family holidays once again. For that reason they opted for a spacious new four-bedroom detached Arizona villa with its own private pool.
The couple funded their €600,000 purchase from their own resources topped up by a Spanish mortgage.
For further information contact: The Almanzora Group
E-mail: tag@almanzora.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1242 680 299
