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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.

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?

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.

Sometimes we get enquiries from people who know they want to live in Valencia and then tell us they are looking at Alicante too. It's an obvious mistake to make as Alicante is a part of the Valencian community but is not Valencia… it's Alicante. Equally this is true to the North of Valencia with Castellón, it's a part of the Valencian Community too but it's also a province in its own right. The thing that most people don't get is that if you haven't made that decision beforehand then you haven't done much research because you are comparing chalk with cheese when you compare Valencia and Alicante in general or indeed Valencia and Castellón.

Things don't cost what they used to. Spain isn't cheap any more. Both true but both are wrong too. Welcome to another blog post where we spend our time convincing you to come to Spain, and more particularly Valencia, to live. Over the last few weeks the talking point of affordability has become the latest political football the world over. As usual the Orange Sh*tgibbon is lying through his teeth about costs in the USA, black is white, north is south, Eurasia have always been our friends etc (Yes, that's an Orwell reference because we are at that point now) However, when we do it we do it through a more open and inclusive point of view. It's called truth and maybe the Felon-in-Chief might like to try that once in a while.

We keep getting more and more requests to help people with their purchase of Valencia Property. There has been a large uptick in requests in the last two weeks since we published our articles about the rental crisis in Valencia and the new digital nomad visa in Spain. It's really gratifying to see so many people trusting us with their most important purchase in Spain. As the most experienced, twenty years plus and counting, and trusted (see our reviews) estate agency in the area we take this responsibility towards our potential clients seriously and continue to build relationships with them right from the start of their Valencia Property journey.

In these pages we have talked before about the, let's say, quirky nature of property owners in Valencia and Spain as a whole but until today we haven't had to talk about the threat of our next consultation call being from behind bars. So today we are going to talk about an ultra quirky owner and why you might have a zoom call or whatsapp conversation with me from Carabanchel (Spain's equivalent of Alcatraz, Wormwood Scrubs or the Salt Mines of Siberia.) Strangeways Here We Come In order to work with our clients, buyers, we sometimes have to work with these quirky owners. You can see some of our other articles about owners and what we put up with in the related posts below, just click on the images. Sometimes though quirky becomes absolutely hatstand crazy and that is what has happened this week.

We have been working in so many ways with clients over the last few years and have written previously about all of the services that we offer but we think that a lot of things are getting lost as there is just so much information on our blog and main page that we thought it was time to bring it all together in one post. A quarter of a century of experience in the Valencia Property market is difficult to distil down into a single blog post and service offers but we have tried here to make the best use of our time and also to give the best service possible to our clients.

As mentioned in last week's blog the latest figures for purchases of property in Valencia show that there an increasing number of Americans buying in and around the city. In fact last year the increase in Americans buying in Valencia was over 50% compared with previous years. Here at Valencia Property we have been working with American clients for over a decade now (We didn't refuse beforehand it's just that they hadn't discovered Valencia yet!). Our working model is that of the American Realtor and there's a reason for that. We'll get into that later. Today though we are going to talk about why we are in the privileged position of being the number one realtor in Valencia for Americans, how we work, what we do and how you can work with us (whether you are American or not).

Has it really been a week since the last article about the question in the title? Is it really time for part two of our big boom article already? Well, yes it is. So last week we posted the following statements about the Valencia and Spanish Property market. We talked about a lot of them last week. This week we talk about the rest. Just in case you didn't see it you can see the original article here.