Buying costs

Rule of thumb for Murcia is that the extras should be about 12% on top, so that seems about right.

Yes thought so myself peter, the one thing was €500 for utilities connection thought maybe that was a bit steep any views peter?

You could try a bit of sucking of teeth with them “this looks expensive, could you trim the price?” but at the end if the day you may think that rather than you struggling with all the funcionaries (whose English if any may suddenly vanish), visiting several offices and so on that it is worth paying for.

The only way to really save money is to be a tough negotiator on the price in the first place, which of course reduces the bill for registration tax and so on - a bit late now.

Not too late peter havent signed up yet going over in 2weeks and as a true scotsman will be offering around €10k under price as these are bank repos and are not selling due to downturn in uk buyers due to brexit, thought that would be a good starting point😂 what do you think?

Certainly the best way. Try and do some digging before you meet the vendors/agents and see if you can find out what anything similar has actually sold for locally. We had our house in Andalucia on the market for a year and had the one offer (which we accepted) at more than that discount. You can always go up but never down, but a good close inspection and measure up may produce some rerasons for your offer price.

Yeah peter, i think even though there has been a slight upturn in the spanish market i have been told that the banks are just trying to offload the remaining 30 villas, and have only sold around 5 in the last 8 months, so it will be a very cheeky offer, i wont pay the asking price so if it doesnt work out at least i will have a few days in the sun 😂

Phew !!!

Abbey48 i take it you live on d sector as you know so much about it?

Hi abbey which part of sector d do you live on?