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Never has a single act, in this case literally an act, made clear that our decision to take time off at Fallas each year is correct. This week ex-Smiths frontman, noted racist, serial flouncer, Ukipper and primadonna, Morrissey, gave everyone who resents him for what he has become (as opposed to what he once represented) a long period of generalised laughter as he used the Fallas fiestas in Valencia as the excuse to cancel the latest in a long list of his cancelled performances, this time in Valencia.

You may feel you have seen this before if you are a long time reader of this blog but it's time for an update on what we do because the last time we wrote this was in 2023 and things change (And at the same time they stay the same) This post was prompted a few weeks ago when in our internal WhatsApp group one of the team asked, "Where's that article about all our services again?" That's exactly what happened a few years ago too so I knew it was time to update. We've been working in so many different ways with clients over the last few years and whilst we've written previously about all the services we offer, we reckon a lot of it gets lost because there's just so much information on our blog and main website. It was definitely time to bring it all together in one updated post for 2026-2027 and let's face it, if the team can't find it then what chance have you got?

We have written on these pages before about Valencia's Districts and we consistently point people towards those articles when they are looking to investigate the areas with a view to moving to Valencia as it's best to know what to expect in each area. However, there was an issue. The articles were written some time ago and people had trouble finding them... even we had trouble finding them at times because we produce so much content here at Valencia Property. A lot of our clients found the guides really useful and suggested we should wrap all of the articles into one. We went a step further and put all of the information into a downloadable PDF.

Last week we wrote about the new Valencia Property Client Handbook. You can see the article at the link. We promised that this week we would be doing the same for Stepping Stone Rentals and as they say in Spanish "Lo prometido es deuda" (A promise is a promise) so here it is. With more and more of our Valencia Property clients starting their Valencia story with a three‑ to six‑month rental, it was about time Stepping Stone Rentals had its own client handbook just like it was the case for Valencia Property.

With over a quarter of a century of experience in the Valencia Property market you would think we already had a client handbook but no, we didn't. So after that slight oversight, now we finally have. Over the last few weeks we have been working on a series of booklets to provide clients and partners so they quickly and concisely get to understand the Valencia Property and Stepping Stone Rentals offer.

It's 11pm. You've got a glass of Rioja, your laptop open, and you're deep into page 17 of Idealista, mentally furnishing a three-bedroom in Ruzafa. We get it. We've helped hundreds of clients who started exactly the same way. And here's the thing: we're not going to tell you to stop. Portals like Idealista, Fotocasa, and Kyero are genuinely useful. They'll give you a sense of what €350,000 buys in the city centre versus the suburbs. They'll teach you the difference between a bajo and an ático, in fact they'll teach you loads of estate agent vocabulary. They're excellent for homework, and we're all for homework, language based and otherwise

As a city Valencia is just about the perfect size for modern living, not too big but large enough to have plenty going on all year round. As we have talked about before in these pages you are never far away from the centre in Valencia, in fact you are generally near to the centre in most of the 19 districts. However, for those reading this from abroad your knowledge of the city might not be that of a local so it's a good time to introduce you to the 19 districts in Valencia and you will also see that names you often see don't appear. This is because within each district you have various neighbourhoods. Let's take a look. 

It's that time of year again, when Valencia's normally vibrant and loud streets become, well, more vibrant and louder. Firecrackers, bangers, bands and huge amounts of gunpowder mean it's Fallas. The biggest Fiesta in Spain, txhe bane of family pets, is back for better or worse and up to a million people extra will be in the city over the main five days of the event while many of us will be escaping off to other parts of the World for a bit of peace and quiet.

We've started strongly in what is destined to become an interesting year. Prices are still climbing, the commuter belt is absolutely flying, and from 1 June every resale buyer in the region gets a tax cut that improves the numbers on their purchase. However, don't put off your purchase until that date. Prices will rise by more than the 1% tax reduction between now and then. If you are able to make a deposit now at today's prices and complete after the 1st of June then go for it but many owners will want a quicker completion than that. Nevertheless , I'm pretty sure that there will be no completions in May, they will all wait until after the 1st of June. Let's take a look at what's happening in some of our favourite places. Here's what the data is showing at the moment and why. 

Some people seem to think that estate agents keep back the best properties for themselves or deliberately don't advertise bargains because... well... reasons! They assume that there are many, many more properties for sale than those they can find online and that if only the agent would release the details to them then they could pick up a bargain. They tell us when we say that what they are looking for doesn't exist at the price that, "They have seen the perfect place online". Really? So today we are going to look at the truth behind online listings or the little things you need to look out for in Spanish real estate ads so that you are not caught out by less than 100% clear descriptions.

As with every year we look into the cost of living in Valencia and then compare it with the cost of living where many of our clients are coming from. We use up to date data from Numbeo to provide the reports. Numbeo is a real time platform where people living in the cities report what they are finding for day to day costs, quality of life issues and more. For a numbers nerd like yours truly it's a treasure trove of information. This year for the first time we are also using Perplexity to investigate the results and provide some graphics saving me a lot of time on putting together the comparisons. By the way you can see last year's post here if you want to compare what has changed.

If you have been in touch with us before you will know that we always ask for one thing above all others, if you haven't then below is what you need to do. Whether we start our contacts with an email, a Whatsapp message, a video call or even an old fashioned phone call we always ask clients "Tell us your wish list". A wish list is simple and it's comprised of just three questions. However, these questions do require more than just a one word answer. You will need to think a bit.

Two and a half years ago we wrote the most useful post ever on the blog (From our point of view definitely and from what our clients say quite often from theirs). It was a post about letting us know exactly what you are looking for when you are moving to Valencia, the first step to buying property in Valencia. It was the most useful because it got clients thinking about exactly what they wanted on buying here and it allowed us to have an excellent communication tool for our team actually written down. The majority of our sales come through this channel as the first point of communication with the second being the individual property enquiries from the main Valencia Property site and the third being the Valencia Property Podcast (more on that later)

There's so much to write about this week that it's difficult to know where to start. Should we go with the weather and the hottest ever temperature in Valencia? Should we start with the Instagram interview we did last week? The new websites and projects? The official launch of Stepping Stone Rentals and the first reserves made? The agreed sales? New listings? ... There's so much. But first it's still holiday time isn't it...?

Last week we produced part one of our article about why Valencia wins out in 2026 (You can read it here) so today as promised it's time for part two. However, we have a lot more than that. We are also including our latest podcast, news about our new Facebook Community (Despite Facebook being a cesspit) and as usual some more things to see, read and listen to as we move into 2026. Let's start though with the next ten reasons for moving to Valencia in 2026...

Happy New Year from Valencia Property. 2026 is here and the blog is back after a week off for the holidays. The truth is it's still holiday time in Valencia and Spain as the Kings arrive today which is when the Spanish traditionally get Xmas presents and tomorrow is Epiphany which is the last day we can really justify saying it's holiday for a while (Not too long to wait though) As a New Year has arrived we thought that it was time to reaffirm the reasons why you might want to move your life to Valencia this year. Things can get lost in the constant day to day hellscape that is "The News" and that idiot (And as usual you don't need me to tell you who "That Idiot" is) So it's good to have a goal of moving to somewhere a bit sunnier, with a bit more space and most importantly a place where just a little more sanity prevails.

Welcome to the last main blog post of the year. Next week there may be a post but as we are on holiday there may not be. Today we are going to look back on the last year in Valencia Property and look forward to what you can expect in Valencia's housing market in 2026. We are not going to say these are predictions for 2026 exactly but this is what we are seeing looking at the current situation and what has happened in 2025. So let's go.

It was around this date in 2019 that news stories started filtering through showing weird happenings in Wuhan. People in apartments that were being bricked up to stop them leaving, hazmat suits, corridors of hospitals overflowing with people struggling to breath and more. It was the start of the Covid pandemic and it changed... well... everything. Today we are going to look at what happened here in Valencia. What Covid meant for the property market, society and in other ways. Because if you're looking at living in or buying or renting in Valencia, or anywhere in Spain and possibly everywhere worldwide, the market you're stepping into today looks very different from the one that existed in early 2020. Not just different in prices (though yes, those have gone up), but fundamentally different in how people buy, what they're looking for, and how the whole process works.