06.28.10
Posted in Property for sale Playa Blanca at 9:24 am by admin
Playa Blanca in brief:
Playa Blanca is at the Southern tip of Lanzarote. In recent years it has shown the fastest growth of any other town in Lanzarote. There are much longer established resorts in Lanzarote but Playa Blanca has an appeal that has attracted a lot of new tourism. The area is more suited to families and retired people than the younger party generation. The beaches are safe and clean. Access is easy and fast. Playa Blanca has the most five star hotels of any area in Lanzarote
Things to do in Playa Blanca
By day there is a great choice of activities in Playa Blanca. By day there is a good selection of safe beaches, very probably only a short walk away from your accommodation. The centre of town has a pedestrian only precinct offering a wide range of shops, banks, restaurants, bars, chemists, estate agents and more. There is a harbor with ferries running to the nearby island of Fuerteventura. In the same harbor are boats waiting to take you on several different and enjoyable excursions. East of the harbor is the impressive and luxurious Marina Rubicon. Here you can take a leisurely stroll, have a drink in a bar and take in the numerous boats and yachts.
By night there are many restaurants offering every sort of cuisine you could need. The whole of Playa Blanca has a promenade giving easy access to all areas of the town and making an enjoyable evening stroll a real pleasure.
Property for sale in Playa Blanca
Playa Blanca has a great variety of apartments, villas and houses for sale. To the west of town is the exclusive development of Faro Park. These properties are finished to the very high specifications, all very well layed out with great access. The closer you get to the centre of town, on the whole, the smaller the types of property for sale in Playa Blanca you will encounter.
The majority of apartments that could be owned and then rented our for holidays are on well kept complexes. Normally they are run as a community and have facilities like communal pools, bars and restaurants. Many also have shops where you can pick up some daily groceries. As you head away from the centre again to the East you approach the wonderful protected reserve area of Papagayo. Many argue that these are the most beautiful beaches in all of Lanzarote. The nearest properties to this area are in Los Colorados, a barrier protected community with a variety of lovely homes.
Conclusion:
Playa Blanca has a home, holiday home or investment property to suit all budgets and needs. The recent rise in popularity and drop in prices all point towards the great potential returns you could realise from a purchase in this area.
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06.21.10
Posted in tenerife property at 6:15 am by admin
The amount of passenger cruise ship visitors arriving in Tenerife is the highest in Spain. You would expect the larger ports of Barcelona to massively out strip Tenerife but this was not the case as shown by figures in the first quarter of 2010.
An incredible amount of passengers in the region of 230,000 arrived in the Las Palmas port of Tenerife between January and March 2010.
This places Tenerife’s cruise ship visitor totals in first place for the whole of Spain. The second place was still held by another Canary Islands, that of Gran Canaria with almost 200,000 visitors. In third place was Barcelona with around 160,000, fourth position saw the Balerarics with 59,000 and fifth Valencia with 23,000.
This evidence bolsters the confidence of Tenerife residents and businesses. As most businesses are connected to tourism in some way or the other then this shows the resilience of the Tenerife and Canary Island economy. Many pundits feel that once the worst of the recession is over that the Canaries will emerge early and strong as a great holiday destination.
The Tenerife property market always closely reflects the tourist market. There is no reason why this will not be the case again.
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06.17.10
Posted in Canary Island property at 3:56 am by admin
The Summer 2010 issue 58 of the Canary Islands longest established property magazine is out now. You can get your free copy from the freedom4sale.com web site.
As ever there is a property price guide running through out the magazine. The magazine is broken down into sections for each of the main islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Gran Canaria. The Lanzarote property section has a green color code on the edge of each page. In these island sections you will find property articles referring to that area, a selection of properties running through the section from estate agents and adverts from estate agents in that area. This way you can flick straight to the Canarian island in which you want to buy your villa, apartment or plot of land and get all the information you could need. Remember if you cannot find what you want in the magazine then the web site will definitely be able to help. You could also directly contact any of the estate agents in the magazine who are all very professional and pleased to be of any assistance.
This issue has got some good property news for overseas buyers:
The Spanish government have launched the Austerity fund to save expenditure and bring the economy back under control. Fast internet connections coming to the Canaries. Spanish repossessions at record levels. Jet2 putting on more flights to the Canaries.
We talk to the Fuerteventura estate agent of Fuerteventura Residences to find out their views on all things property.
Andy Wells buys a house in Playa Blanca. He lets us follow him through the whole buying process from start to finish. Explains any problems he may have had and how these were overcome. Great reading and assurance for anyone on the verge of buying their dream property for sale in Playa Blanca.
Things work differently in different countries. There is a very useful article on the difference in how properties are measured in the UK and in Spain. Find out what these differences are and how to overcome them.
In the current bargain strewn property market in which we live we dig out some great potential purchases. This issue we focus in on Villas for sale with pools for under 300,000 euros. A few years ago this article would have been empty. Feast your eyes on what can be bought and some amazing value prices.
Enjoy this issue of Freedom4sale and remember that if you can afford it there has not been a time in the last 10 years as good as now to buy yourself a fantastic home or investment in guaranteed year round sun.
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06.11.10
Posted in Canary island news at 6:37 am by admin
Low cost airline Jet 2.com began flights to the Canary Islands from East Midlands airport on May 20th, last month. Jet 2.com’s new services will operate out of the East Midlands airport, with the first flight being to Lanzarote adding to the airlines sevices from Manchester, Leeds And Newcastle. Flights to Tenerife begin on Friday 21st May, strengthening their commitment to the island by adding to the routes already in operation from Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Newcastle and Blackpool.
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Posted in United Kingdom property market at 6:18 am by admin
The number of British property buyers searching online for foreign real estate has doubled in the last year, according to the portal Primelocation International.
Enquiries on the site were 95% higher in March 2010 than a year earlier, with the top three locations of Spain, France and the US recording increases of 108%, 153% and 105% respectively.
Searches also increased on a monthly basis for most countries, with Bulgaria’s 11% decline the only fall out of the top ten most popular destinations.
Switzerland, which saw an annual increase in searches of 74%, re-entered the top ten for the first time since January, while Australia dropped out of the chart.
“Pent up demand now appears to be on the brink of converting into sales,”
“Several signs are now indicating that the economy may have escaped a double dip and be stabilising in earnest and potential buyers are picking up this optimism.”
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Posted in Spanish News at 6:11 am by admin
There are now more smokers in Spain than when the 2006 anti-smoking legislation came into effect. Apparantly, 35% of Spaniards still smoke, however in other parts of Europe, there has been a large reduction in smokers, where the average number has fallen to 29%. It means that if the Government’s intention was to reduce the number of smokers with the current law, it has failed, although new tougher regulations banning smoking in all closed public spaces including all bars and restaurants is expected to come into force this summer with virtual zero tolerance.
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Posted in Spanish News at 6:09 am by admin
Apple’s new computer, the iPad, has now arrived in stores in Spain amid great consumer expectation, with 300,000 sold the day it was launched in the USA and a million altogether over its first month on the market.
The price in Spain for this small touch-screen laptop, with no keyboard will be between 479 (16GB) and 779 euros ( 64GB).
Before the product is even available in the shops, various service providers have been advertising flat rates. Vodafone is offering two flat rates, one of 15e and the other of 32ea month. Movistar has three flat rates, and for those clients who already have mobile internet will be able to connect to the web via their iPad at no additional cost. For their part, Orange is offering two rates – a daily one of 3.5e and a monthly one of 35e – both on a contract basis.
Designed along similar lines as Apple’s highly successful iPhone, the iPad allows users to surf the Internet, read newspapers and electronic books, access their e-mail accounts, look at photos and videos in high definition and listen to music, as well as all the usual functions of a laptop.
The iPad is only 1.34cm thick, weighs 680g and has a battery that lasts for up to ten hours.
The iPad is being launched simultaneously in Germany, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the UK. There are plans to launch it in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Hong-Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico and Singapore later in July.
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Posted in Canary Island property at 6:07 am by admin
Record numbers of Canary Island Estate Agents are clambering for repossessed properties, despite continuing economic woes.
However, the country’s economic position continues to slide amid concerns about national debt. The Bank of Spain was forced recently to seize control of regional savings bank CajaSur, the latest challenge to Spain’s battered financial sector since the collapse of the housing bubble.
However the good news is agents are adapting to the present economic situation. Southern Spain markets have seen a lot of small, new property agencies spring up recently, and many of them have restructured their business models to cope with a tougher climate and a lot of below market value deals.
“There are a lot of sharp young agencies out there now who have positioned their offerings very professionally. They are smaller and they approach the market in a much more appropriate way.”
That siad, Canary Island property companies need to rebuild trust with both buyers and foreign agents.
“There is a lot of demand but several parameters have to be just right for the sale to work, from finance the legalities of the sale.”
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Posted in tenerife property at 5:57 am by admin
The contract for the extention and improvement to Corralejo harbour has been awarded and is expected to take two years to complete. The project will improve and extend the ferry piers, increase the number of moorings for pleasure craft and provide better boat yard facilities.
As well as the existing marina berths the new marina will provide 650 berths for yachts which will be sheltered behind a huge curved breakwater.
Corralejo harbour on the north coast of Fuerteventura is one of the busiest in the Canaries with close to a million passengers a year using the short ferry link to Lanzarote and the project will ensure that increasing passenger demand can be met. The harbour Playa Blanca in Lanzarote will also be extended and improved to allow easier access for the ferries whose entrance at the moment can only be described as tight.
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06.10.10
Posted in Canary island news at 10:53 am by admin
The Spanish parliament has backed a 15bn-euro ($18.4bn; £13bn) austerity package by one vote as the country strives to cut its budget deficit.
The vote saw 169 in favour of the Socialist government’s austerity plan and 168 against, with 13 abstentions.
Spain announced the austerity package earlier this month. It includes wage cuts of 5% or more for civil servants and slashes public investment plans.
Spain hopes to rein in its deficit and ease fears of a Greek-style crisis.
A parliamentary defeat would have been a blow to the Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Spain’s programme is intended to reduce a deficit of 11% of GDP to 6% by 2011.
“The result is calming for the markets because a vote against would have been very worrying,” said a strategist at Citigroup.
Many Spaniards fear the effect the cuts will have on the economy, where the unemployment rate exceeds 20% – twice the eurozone average.
The country moved out of recession in the first quarter of this year, with growth of 0.1%.
The European Union has been anxious to see more fragile European economies, including Spain, Portugal and Greece, impose tougher austerity measures.
Before the vote, finance minister Elena Salgado had asked politicians to vote in favour, saying the measures were “painful but inevitable”.
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