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All you need to know if you inherit a home and need to sell it.

SpainHouses.netMay 28, 2019May 28, 2019Leave a comment

Spanish people received almost 430,000 inheritances in 2018, of which almost 47,000 were rejected, that is, 10.9% of the total, according to a report by the General Council of Economists. What should the heirs have in mind when inheriting a property? What is the inheritance tax? And the municipal surplus value?

In case your intention is to sell the house that you just inherited, in this post, we give you some key tips for this moment.

Tips for choosing the perfect sofa for our house

SpainHouses.netMay 24, 2019May 24, 2019Leave a comment

Of all the furniture that gives more headaches at the time of choosing is the sofa, is a fundamental piece that we use every day and all members of the family, so you have to take into account several tips to choose the perfect sofa that suits our needs.

Live in a castle worthy of Game of Thrones

SpainHouses.netMay 23, 2019May 23, 2019Leave a comment

Who has never dreamed to know what it would be like to live a day in a castle? Or, why not, if you had in your hand the possibility of being a Lannister, a Stark or a Tully, what would be your King's Landing? If you want to live your own 'Game of thrones', that is, move to that other time in which cities grew in the shelter of castles, across the length and breadth of the old continent, escape to these abbeys and throw a lot of imagination. Today we bring you a selection of storytelling castles that you would love to conquer and enjoy.

Soft style in a beautiful apartment full of light and details in Dreta de l’Eixample (Barcelona)

SpainHouses.netMay 22, 2019June 20, 2019Leave a comment

On this occasion, "The house of the week" takes us once again to the great city of Barcelona to see a spectacular apartment full of elegance, spaciousness and the great light of the Eixample, an area of the most emblematic areas of the centre of Barcelona.

It is a fantastic 110m2 apartment completely renovated with excellent location near Plaza Universidad and a block from Enric Granados

Why does not the reverse mortgage triumph in Spain? 1

SpainHouses.netMay 20, 2019May 20, 20191 Comment

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In Spain, there are more than 8 million people over 65 with property in their own homes. Accumulate savings of 600,000 million euros in housing compared to 120,000 million in pension plans for the total population.

However, last year only 45 reverse mortgages were commercialized in our country, according to the figures offered by the General Council of Notaries. But, let us start at the beginning. What is a reverse mortgage? And why are so few marketed?

Decorative styles for the baby’s room

SpainHouses.netMay 17, 2019May 23, 2019Leave a comment

When we are waiting for the arrival of a new child in the family, he hopes to create his space and go decorating it little by little, creating each corner with care and taking care of even the smallest detail. In this post, we tell you decorative tips according to your favourite style to create a bedroom for a newborn.

Light, nature and design in a dream house in Huétor Vega (Granada)

SpainHouses.netMay 15, 2019May 15, 2019Leave a comment

The House of the week takes us today to a great dream house in Huétor Vega (Granada), located in an idyllic natural setting nestled between the valley of the Monachil river and the plain of Granada's depression, on the "border between snow and la vega ", as has been popularly coined.

The municipality of Huétor Vega keeps inside the streets and public spaces the typology of the mountain villages. In the tour of the town, you can see the typical houses with a white facade and roof tiles.

Cohousing: What it is and how it works in Spain 3

SpainHouses.netMay 14, 2019May 14, 20193 Comments

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There is already an alternative to nursing homes in the United States and Europe, what is cohousing? Each time there are more types of communities and ways to share housing both to save and to improve coexistence and quality of life.

Slowly but steadily, the housing or cohousing cooperatives are making inroads in Spain, positioning themselves as an alternative to purchasing or renting homes at an individual level. In this post, we detail what the cohousing or cohousing consists of and how it works in Spain.

Who is mortgaged today? The transformation of the real estate market

SpainHouses.netMay 13, 2019May 13, 2019Leave a comment

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The bursting of the housing bubble during the last crisis has transformed the real estate market in countries that suffered the heaviest price of housing. In the years prior to the Great Recession, there was a relaxation of the financial conditions that allowed young people with low wages to mortgage in the very long term with the risk that this entails. The bursting of the bubble has had serious economic consequences that have changed the behaviour of banks and families. Now, the composition of mortgaged homes has changed: the profile is a person over 40 years old and has a high level of income. This transformation of the mortgaged has also occurred in countries that did not suffer the bubble, but for different reasons.

Terrazzo is once again a trend

SpainHouses.netMay 10, 2019May 16, 2019Leave a comment

The terrazzo has returned to our life in the world of decoration. And we say that he has come back because, like almost all fashions, he was once the last and stopped wearing. Surely you remember some house of the seventies with this material on the floor. Of course, the terrazzo of today has been reinvented and now it seems another.