Living and Loving golf in Spain

Well lets face it the sun does shine a lot

More and more couples are looking to take advantage of low cost air travel and play golf in Spain and Portugal with regular trips to their favorite locations. Our golf club see's its fair share of extremely good competitive golfers who have been coming and playing in Spain for many years and finally want to commit to more golf in their favorite location not to mention a wonderful championship course.

There have been so many people inquiring in the last 12 months that this year that the Golf Club have created a more user friendly International Membership to entice them to join the club and many are doing just that. I look back fondly at my golf days in Dorset getting up at 6.30am just to get a tee time and making sure I had my woolen beanie and the single fur lined glove just to keep your hands warm. Not any more, these days on this western fringe of the Costa del Golf if it looks like a few spits of rain we delay until tomorrow when we know that the sun will shine again. The new members under their 6 month membership come and go with the seasons and many take a month at a time before the draw of family takes them back to the Country of origin.

As people become familiar with the club and its members friendships are formed and people suddenly start to book their golf trips in line with club events when they know the rest of the gang are more likely to be there. Some great rivalries materialize and tournaments then provides some great social aspects including the 'after golf' when that couple of drinks on the terrace turns to a few more and a few more. What about when you return home to rain and wind can you forget what you have just left behind. Its hard with all this social media particularly if you are constantly reminded that life in the sun goes on

In Spain we are also seeing quite a few families with talented golf children who look to take a gap year after GCSE's or A levels so that they can practice golf with very little weather interruption. The whole family are often involved and once again find club golf life very enjoyable. So enjoyable that they start to look at the options to continue the golfing lifestyle once the gap year ends.

Club golf in the sun becomes very addictive. I love my coffee and bacon roll in the sun on the terrace pre-warmup followed by 18 holes on well manicured golf course wearing shorts. Our club always runs 2 roll up competitions per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays and fortnightly there is either the monthly medal or the club Ranking competition, throw in a main club event maybe once a month and there is plenty of competitive golf to play. I should also mention the inter-club events as we play all over the coast.

For myself I have not retired yet and need to work. Having said that estate agents in Spain are not the busiest of people in these economic times but we do work very flexible hours so taking a morning off for golf in the week is always a possibility and maybe knocking off at 3pm for some social golf. Very often we like to play the course with a client who maybe seeking a golf front villa or apartment. No point trying to sell an apartment until the client decides the course is good enough.

In our area we have 7 courses all within 7 minutes drive of each other and once you get involved with golf locally you will meet members from other local clubs who will sign you in to play their course at a fraction of the wrack rate. Of the 7 courses 5 are in Spains top 10 so we are very spoilt for choice here. These include Valderrama, La Resrva, Real Club Sotogrande, San Roque New Course & San Roque Old course. Other local courses include Almenara's 27 holes, Alcaidesa beachfront course and La Canada golf. The wonderful Finca Cortesin is within 15 minutes drive.

This morning I met a client at the golf club and whilst there introduced him to a number of members some who had just arrived back in Spain and a few that were departing having spent most of the summer here. These people were all members who had taken the 6 month option but some were already looking to maybe upgrade their membership to full time and spend more time here than back in their country of origin.

My golf club is the San Roque golf club and whilst the majority of members are Brits and Irish there is also a great mix of other Europeans and a few Spanish. The atmosphere is always friendly and very few play and dash off immediately as there is always a drink while waiting the results of the match.

I am happy to chat to anyone thinking about Spain Golf and the logistics of a second home in the sun. One thing I do know if you make the commitment you will not regret it and I still say 10 years on that moving here was the best decision I have ever made.

Isnt it time you discovered the stunning western fringe of the Costa del Sol

article by Francis Payne

Tailor Made estate agents of Sotogrande

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Golf in Sotogrande Southern Spain

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Preparar su Casa para la Venta

10 ideas que esperamos ayude

10 mejores consejos para vender su casa en España

1. Instruir máximo de 4 agentes de mantener el control de su propiedad y trabajar con su agente hacia la venta de su casa. Más de 4 agentes y compradores piensan que su desesperado por vender. Mantener cierta exclusividad, si quieres probar otra agencia a continuación, colocar una antes de agregar otro.

2. Seleccione un agentes basados ​​en la variedad de conocimientos diferentes agentes proporcionan una variedad de experiencia. Algunos pueden tener una reputación internacional, otro el agente local principal, tal vez, otros pueden prometer anuncios y artículos brillantes o incluir una agencia que son expertos en medios de comunicación social y promoción de sitios web

3. Asegúrese de precio es realista para el mercado existe una tendencia en España para poner una casa en el mercado a un precio mucho más alto que es realista. Muchos propietarios creen que pueden golpear suerte. Hay muchas casas en venta que han sido durante años y compradores reales son conscientes de ello. Sólo comercializar su casa si usted tiene una oportunidad real de venta de lo contrario los agentes utilizarán su precio altamente inflados para promover viviendas similares precios más bajos disponibles.

4. Asegúrese de que el acceso es sencillo en todo momento como agentes que a menudo se les dice que si tenemos que mostrar la propiedad la clave estará en manos de un jardinero o un limpiador. ¿Cuántas veces ha habido una situación en la que no podemos controlar la titular de la clave, ya que no se encuentran en la zona o no estamos respondiendo en un fin de semana. Asegúrese de que hay una segunda opción clave para los agentes. Es un hecho que un agente siempre libros citas primera de aquellas propiedades que sean titulares de una tecla.

5. Reglas básicas Proporcionar todos los agentes que usted instruís con un conjunto de reglas básicas y proporcionarles en forma escrita. Por ejemplo, usted no quiere un agente para instruir subagentes o al mercado a un precio que sólo se indicó que podría aceptar. De esta manera todos los agentes tengan uniformidad y no crean confusión

6. Vet las fotografías utilizadas para promover Algunos agentes son simplemente malos fotógrafos. Pregunte a un agente que le envíe las fotos que vayan a utilizar. No deje que un agente utiliza pobres fotografía para promover su casa, ya que crea la negatividad.

7. Muestre un interés en la venta de Agentes gusta saber que están trabajando para vender con el apoyo del propietario. Si el cliente responde a una actualización de correos electrónicos y llamadas telefónicas desde el agente entonces esto ayuda a crear una cierta positividad. Cuando un propietario suena de vez en cuando para preguntar sobre el mercado, esto puede provocar la agencia para refrescar sus esfuerzos por vender su propiedad.

8. Objetivo para la buena presentación Nada peor que una propiedad desordenado. Trate de asegurarse de que la propiedad es presentable. Una propiedad desordenado o sucio crea negatividad. No tiene que ser un espectáculo de casa, pero debe estar limpio y ordenado.

9. La buena información Ahórrese tiempo y se molestó al proporcionar tanta información como sea posible desde el principio. España tiene unos reglamentos que los agentes deben acatar vender una propiedad. Decreto ley española 218 requiere una agencia para tener una copia de una reciente Nota Simple {title} instantánea de que se puede obtener en línea por su abogado fácilmente. También enviará al organismo una copia de sus cuotas del IBI y de la Comunidad tal como se le pedirá al agente por esta información por un posible comprador

10. retroalimentación Agente En declaraciones a un agente inmobiliario le dará retroalimentación y hablando con varios agentes que será capaz de leer entre líneas. Hay una tendencia en España para los agentes para reclamar que están ocupados todo el tiempo. Debido a que un agente dice que están ocupados no significa que el mercado es maravilloso. Cuando las condiciones del mercado son difíciles un agente inmobiliario puede pasar mucho tiempo persiguiendo su propia cola. Pida al agente que dice que están ocupados de qué manera son ellos ocupados. Estas vendiendo ? Si usted es lo que usted está vendiendo? y cuánto vendiste ¿Que buscas? Lo principal de retroalimentación está recibiendo la información correcta y relacionarse de nuevo a su propiedad.

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Gibraltar workers look again at renting in Spain as rents soar to unaffordable levels

Sky High residential rents in Gibraltar and people revisit Spain Seems that rents in Gibraltar are simply getting so high that people are re-looking in Spain and working in Gibraltar. The well publicized border problems resulted in many banking and gaming workers moving back into Gibraltar to live and as a result rental values increased dramatically in the last 18 months. A friend of mine bough an apartment in Gibraltar was receiving 1000GBP per month for a modern small 2 bedroom on the runway and on recently changing tenant saw an increase to 1500.00GBP per month.

Within the last 3 months there has been a significant increase in inquiries from people working in Gibraltar looking to lower their overheads and increase there living space. The result for Tailor Made estate Agents in Spain has been a good run on people renting in Alcaidesa beach resort and San Roque golf Country club. Three bedroom 2 bathroom Apartments, overlooking the golf course at San Roque club have recently been renting for around 1000 euros per month. I asked the most recent renters to move to San Roque golf, a Dutch couple in the gaming industry who moved in in June what prompted the move. They informed me the apartment a 3 bedroom in Gibraltar was simply too expensive at 1650 GBP pm a move to Spain saw an immediate saving and the apartment they moved into was much larger and only 1100 euros per month. He also told me that for that amount of saving he was happy to walk across the border which reduced the chance of delays. Here is a good example of a San Roque apartment on the market at present in Terraces San Roque golf San Roque Apartment Link

Two other couples recently moved because they wanted a more recreational feel for young children and with a community swimming pool , kids golf academy, horse riding stables and a nursery school on site at San Roque seemed a good choice. see aerial view of San Roque golf resort Southern Spain