Buying in October - Page 2

Hi There, we too are completing on our Rebecca on D in October having done our due diligence and visited the area several times at different times of the year. Initially as a holiday home but hope to move out permanently when we retire, at least that's the plan.

All I would say is use a reputable estate agent who will hopefully make the whole process fairly straight forward, they understand totally that the majority of us haven't really got a clue about Spanish law and most probably cannot speak the language.

We had dealings with both Mercers and Luz Del Sol, both of which were amazing with no hard sell but excellent advice.

Good luck with your search.

Martin and Jacqui.

Hi, we were looking to buy on Camposol, bargains to be had, so we thought! 

We were warned to Google " problems with Camposol properties".

Wow, glad we did. 

Feel sorry for those poor residents, especially those that found out when their phase was built on a dried up river bed - guess what happened when the heavy rains came - total devastation including their cars washed away. 

Apparently Phase One is okay and fully legal.

The Google articles make horrifying reading about the other phases.

We bought elsewhere and were exceeding grateful of the warning we received.

Be very careful!

You clearly know nothing about camposol. Just the crap you’ve read which is nowhere near the truth

I expected this sort of reply.

Nothing wrong with telling people to be cautious.

I understand certain residents would say the newspaper reports are wrong, the Townhall are wrong  the damage caused by flooding is wrong and 3500 homes out of 4000 will never get the proper Licences. Its called denial.

Anyone can deduce from googling "problems with Camposol properties" that the meetings taking place at Goverment level, are wrong are they? A load of crap?

An extract;

A commission of politicians from Murcia’s regional parliament recently visited the Camposol golf & residential urbanisation in Mazarrón, and came away with harsh words to say about the state of the development.

“Descent into the hell of Camposol” is the title of the article in the local paper La Opinión de Murcia, reporting the visit to inspect first hand the problems at Camposol, a massive 4,000 home development in Mazarrón, Murcia, by a builder and developer called Masa.

 

A Spanish Property Insightby Mark Stücklin

Skip to contentPoliticians finally take interest in problems at Camposol urbanisation in MurciaSPI ARTICLE BY
MARK STÜCKLIN JUNE 3, 2016

Typical house at Camposol, Mazarrón, Murcia

A commission of politicians from Murcia’s regional parliament recently visited the Camposol golf & residential urbanisation in Mazarrón, and came away with harsh words to say about the state of the development.

“Descent into the hell of Camposol” is the title of the article in the local paper La Opinión de Murcia, reporting the visit to inspect first hand the problems at Camposol, a massive 4,000 home development in Mazarrón, Murcia, by a builder and developer called Masa.

Te Planning, Environmental, Agriculture and Water Commission of politicians from Murcia’s regional parliament visited Camposol to see for themselves the problems that residents, most of whom are foreigners, have been complaining about for years. “Sunken roads, pavements breaking up, and houses with cracks,” is what they found, reports the paper, whilst also pointing out that residents’ complaints have fallen on deaf ears for decades.

One of the problems is that 550 homes at Camposol have been built on a dry river bed, which contravenes planning laws. Flooding is problem when it rains. The article also mentions “other problems like a lack of health standards and basic services.”

The visit comes a few days after representatives of the more than 5,000 residents of Camposol registered a complaint with the regional parliament, reports La Opinión.

The local Socialist Party plans to propose stripping the municipality of planning authority because of the disaster at Camposol, that the regional Government takes over, and that the local water board (Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura or CHS) gets involved to find solutions, including the paying of compensation.

María Giménez, from the left wing Podemos party, described the situation facing residents as “sad and heartbreaking”. “Where is the Waterboard in the face of this environmental catastrophe? This visit has made us ashamed of everything to do with Camposol,” she said, quoted by La Opinión.

Investigating the local property scene in Murcia, I visited Camposol in 2009, and spoke to British residents about their problems, and the way they were treated by the developer. It was not an uplifting experience.

I think the developer used to be called Grupo Masa, but now the name is just Masa, though the logo is the same. Interestingly I couldn’t find one single reference to Camposol however on their website, how interesting.

So, is this all crap as you say?

You have my sympathy it is a terrible state to be in but at the same time new investors need to be warned.

Well, I only got to the first paragraph when you say “and 3500 homes out of 4000 will never get the proper Licences. ”

Utter crap. 

Still, I’ll let someone else reply. It’s not worth my time to collate all the real facts and figures to give someone who doesn’t live there or who is actually looking to live there.