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One of the key points in real estate buying and selling processes is determining a house's sale price. Starting from an unrealistic price, whether on the part of the seller or the buyer, can entail financial losses or make it impossible to complete the process in an acceptable amount of time. Therefore, an appropriate valuation is necessary.
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The health crisis and paralysation of the economy led to predictions of a dark future for the real estate sector. However, it seems that in some aspects, it is one of the few that is weathering the crisis, at least for the moment. While awaiting what may happen in a few months, the real estate market is experiencing a period of calm and home prices have not seen any big variations during the health crisis.
The brake has been slammed on, in relation to the sale and purchase operations. Experts and operators in the sector anticipate a stop in the number of housing transactions. The coronavirus will cause delays in purchasing decisions among those people who were considering changing their homes, among those who had started the process of finding homes and among those who had already seen apartments and were doubting whether to reserve the one that had most affected them. liked it or not. These potential buyers may be thinking about the effects that the coronavirus may have on the real estate market in the form of possible price drops that they can benefit from later.
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If you live with a person who has been infected with the coronavirus or who may be, you should try to isolate the patient and take extreme hygiene precautions. This guide, based on the advice of the Community of Madrid, the region of Spain with the highest number of infected, explains how to do it:
To isolate a person infected with coronavirus in their own home, it is advisable to have a room exclusively for them. It is also advisable not to share a bathroom with the infected person and, as far as possible, avoid meeting the patient in other rooms of the home to comply with the protocol of keeping at least one meter away from any positive case.
When you live with a person infected with the Covid-19, thorough daily cleaning is essential to avoid new infections. Special attention should be paid to surfaces that the infected person may have touched. The person in charge of cleaning should wear a mask and gloves. For cleaning, a solution of bleach water should be used: one part of disinfectant for every 49 of water. Clean all frequent contact surfaces daily: door handles, tables, switches, taps, toilets, telephones, and keyboards. The dishes and utensils should be washed with hot soapy water, preferably in a dishwasher to reach 60º. The patient's clothes can be washed separately with usual detergent at a temperature between 60º and 90º. Let it dry completely.
The contaminated residues of an infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can be dangerous for the safety of other people who live with it. Therefore, the correct treatment of the generated remains can avoid possible contagions. It is essential to use disposable cleaning elements, to properly insulate the trash in a plastic bag, and exhaustive personal hygiene after treating this waste.
Are you an owner and are you going to rent a flat? Or, on the contrary, a tenant looking for a rental apartment? Whatever side you are, this entry interests you! In this post, we detail the expenses in renting a flat.
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At the end of December, the Chinese authorities detected the existence of a new coronavirus (the so-called COVID-19) in the city of Wuhan. In January, the World Health Organization (WHO) decreed a global health emergency and real estate markets were shaken. To what extent should we worry about the impact of the virus on the real estate sector?
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Signal and reservation are very colloquial terms rooted in the purchase of a home. But what exactly does the so-called reservation, signal or deposit contract require us to do? The words payment, signal, deposit or reservation only show the advance of a sum of money from the buyer to the seller.
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When renting, you have to take many things into account: terms, contracts, obligations, rights ... But also the requirements and procedures. Among the conditions that may require us to rent a property, according to the Autonomous Community, is having the certificate of occupancy in force but what exactly? How is it obtained? We tell you!
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Do you have an empty house? Have you tired of paying every month the fixed expenses of having an uninhabited property? If you have finally decided to lease a home, before placing the ad, you have to be very clear about all the legal procedures to rent an apartment.
In this way, the whole process will be much simpler, you will not fall into errors and you will find the best tenant in a very short time. Thus, you can start enjoying the rental in a very short period of time. In this post, we tell you what are the legal procedures necessary to rent an apartment.
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The price of second-hand housing stood at 1,705 euros per square meter at the end of January, which represents an increase of 0.13% compared to a year ago, but also a fall of 0.36% compared to the month of December.
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