This is a great house at a competitive price but you will need to make some choices... we'll get to that later. Built 14 years ago at the end of a quiet road but higher that the other houses so you get great uninterrupted views around from your huge rooftop terrace, this property is on a manageable plot size of 360m2 and has some rather excellent palm and banana trees around it. The main part of the house is on two floors...

Its Christmas week, and we’re warming our chestnuts on an open fire (insert smutty joke here), which is all very nice, but really its only a distraction to get us through the winter. Its almost the shortest day, and then starts the slow climb back towards the summer, the sun and hot temperatures everyday...

Great villa in the countryside not far (5kms) from Lliria town. A nice pool and views right across the surrounding countryside. There are orange, lemon and olive trees, and also a lawn area. This house has 4 bedrooms and a large shaded terrace to enjoy the long warm summer evenings, and indeed the bright sunny winter afternoons. There is air conditioning already installed. A property with great potential, its the right size...

This property is between Loriguilla and Riba-Roja, in the countryside but really only a few minutes’ drive from town, and 20 minutes from Valencia city. Also very close to Valencia airport. In fact, if you have guests coming in, you could wait until you see the plane has landed before popping out to pick them up. And with three double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, there is plenty of room for guests...

Give him a ball and a yard of grass He'll give you a move with a perfect pass (Sultans of Ping) A villa outside Gandia, 20 minutes from your choice of beaches with fantastic views and a beautiful garden. And by garden, I mean a lawn. Somewhere you can knock a ball around. Big shortage of that in Spanish gardens...

Well not quite forever. Just 120kms. From the Naquera hills to the Montgo. Thats the view from the terrace of this villa 5 minutes outside Naquera town, and 30 minutes to Valencia city and less to the beach. Actually you get the same view from the breakfast room, the living room, the master bedroom and from the swimming pool. And if you do ever get tired of looking out across the Horta Nord, valencia city...

You get a lot more for your money outside the more traditional areas of La Eliana, Betera and Rocafort as examples. Go just a few minutes further, in this case just past the golf course at El Bosque and up the hill so you get some great views, and you can find special properties like this one. Large, imposing and at the same time inviting...

The kids finished school for the summer yesterday, and its at times like this you wish you had a bigger house. One with 5 bedrooms maybe, and a pool, and an underground garage for when you really need JUST 2 BLOODY SECONDS TO MYSELF SO I CAN THINK PLEASE IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK Sorry, but for example here is an interesting villa in L'Eliana, built on a corner plot, so only a neighbour on one side...

The rising price of Avocados and the dream of self sufficiency that made Richard Briers into an eco tyrant and Felicity Kendall into the muse of many wannabe urban allotment owners might inspire you to take a punt on this neat little house just outside the town of Torres Torres to the North West of Sagunto. If that doesn't then the price might do. You have around 2000m2 of plot mostly filled with an array of fruit trees...