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We are doing a bit of housekeeping on the site and have decided to give this page more visibility. It's one of the most important things you can do when preparing your Valencia Property purchase and that's your background reading to make sure you know everything about the processes involved in buying property in Valencia. Of course you should also be downloading our guides, listening to the podcast and keeping an eye on our Youtube channel and socials but perhaps the most important is reading and inwardly digesting the following posts.

If you are asking us a question then we assume that others have the same question or something similar so on a regular basis we publish some of the latest questions we get because the answers can be useful to everyone. This week we have had a slew of questions via our mail, on social media and directly in meetings with clients. Again we are on holiday as it's Easter and Easter in Valencia unlike much of Spain is the week after Good Friday not the week before because the danger of Easter clashing with Fallas and giving everyone nearly three weeks off would be too tempting. However, this Easter a couple of us are working in Valencia, or at least doing as much as possible within the limitations of owners and agents being away because kids are on holiday.

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?

Last week we looked at electricity costs in detail and how Spain's renewable revolution has changed the game for property owners. You can read that article here. This week we are covering the rest. IBI, gas, water, community fees, internet, home insurance, security and pool and garden costs. Some of these have changed a lot since 2019 when we wrote the original article. Others have barely moved. Some have even gone down. Let's go through them.

We wrote an article back in 2019 called "What Are The Running Costs of Your Valencia Property?" It was one of the most read articles on the blog and still gets a lot of traffic today. The problem is it's now seven years old, the world has changed and continues to change at an even faster pace. In fact the World is now in a totally different place. Lots of things can change in seven years. Let's make a list shall we. Since 2019 we have had a global pandemic, a continuing war in Ukraine, an energy crisis across Europe as a result, inflation that made your eyes water due to supply chain issues during the pandemic and after, and now we have that idiot in the White House dragging the US and Israeli coalition into a war with Iran that has closed the Straits of Hormuz (unless you send the Theocracy 2 million in untraceable Bitcoin) and sent global energy markets into chaos yet again. Oil has gone above $100 a barrel for the first time since the Ukraine crisis and European gas prices have doubled since the start of the year. The UK, Germany, Italy and others are bracing for another round of energy price pain.

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.

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.