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If you live in certain areas of Glasgow and are a middle aged male I would get out quickly. The latest report about life expectancy in the World shows that men in certain areas of Glasgow have a life expectancy of around 55 years old. Spain meanwhile has the highest life expectancy in Europe and even more importantly the highest healthy life expectancy. As posted in the report and quoted in the Guardian "They may be out of work and struggling with financial disaster, but the Spanish have the highest healthy life expectancy in Europe – and beat Australia, Canada, Norway and the USA as well.

March has come around with grey skies for a whole day or two, until today when the weather is stunning, and Valenia looking good in the pre Fallas festivities. So just a couple of videos and some pictures to show you today. Firstly it was raining yesterday so we managed to get close to the first Mascleta of the Fallas fiestas (A Mascleta is a pile of firecrackers and fireworks going off for around 5 minutes sounding like a war zone.   There are 17 more of them to go before the fallas fiestas end every day in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 2pm.

It is time for you to see some of the properties placed onto Valencia Property recently. However bear in mind that many properties we have on the books are not yet on the site due to time demands. So take a look at some of the latest properties on the site and if you are interested in these are would like something else just send us a mail and tell me what you are looking for.

2013 in Spanish Property was an article originally featured in the Spanish Property Magazine for iPad, get your copy at the link. I thought it was relevant for here though. Here is what you should be looking out for, what you need to be aware of and how you should be thinking if you are thinking of moving to Spain in 2013. There are opportunities everywhere but there are also traps the unwary can fall into.

It took Apple a long time to approve this time, it seems that they don't rest on the eighth day though and finally Spanish Property Magazine issue 5 was approved and is now in the app store. This is the longest issue yet with an extra special on the Spanish Road Trip following on from this month's issue.

The article below was taken from issue four of the Spanish Property magazine. It's this sort of analysis that you may be missing so if you have an iPad get over to iTunes and download the magazines. Well worth some of your time if you are interested in Spain and/or property. As I said in the last magazine, most people buy in Spain for one of two reasons: lifestyle or investment. However the investment part you need to look at carefully. Many people bought for both lifestyle and investment and most of them crashed and burnt.

I have had two really good deals passed onto me in the last couple of weeks but they are chalk and cheese as to what your money will get you. So the question is do you want a large city apartment overlooking a church or a huge country house overlooking rolling orange groves. It's a really difficult choice for most people who are not clear on their requirements but for those with a laser targetted focus there is really no choice. If you want a city pad then that is what you want and if you want lots of outside space and a pool then a city pad is not an option.

This week I let down a client due to a lack of organisation on my part. I want to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen again for anyone thinking of coming over to visit properties so I thought it would be right to explain the situation and how it arose. The client got in touch with me about two weeks ago and we discussed by email their requirements along with a couple of skype calls.

I thought you might like to read a wide ranging interview about the Spanish Property Market that was published yesterday in Smart Planet. The writer Jennifer Riggins is the Madrid based correspondent for the Smart Planet website and she grilled me for around an hour about the Spanish property market and the Spanish Property Magazine.

The 4th Spanish Property Magazine is out now and you can get it for your iPad right now here Take a look at the cover and some of the images from the pages below. And remember you can find articles about Spanish Inheritance Tax, 10 Surprising Things About Spain, Blood in the Valencian Soil a new novel set in Valencia by Caroline Angus Baker

Well then, Apple has brought out a new iPad. It's a little smaller and a lot lighter so you can read it in bed and when you fall asleep and drop it on your nose it won't get broken. (Your nose that is, although your iPad may slide off the bed and crash in pieces on the tiled floor if you aren't careful)

I have finally been able to get a video about the hotel for sale in Mojacár at 615000 Euros reduced off the price to 380,000 Euros. Hugely impressive property with views to die for with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Take a look at the video and come and look at the property. The usual question on our great bargains, What's not to like?

I was looking through the excellent Mark Stucklin's Spanish Property Insight and came across some number crunching he has done regarding the price of property in each autonomous region compared with 2002. It makes for very interesting reading. Once we take inflation into account it seems that in the majority of the country it is now as cheap to buy a property as it was in 2002. There are a few surprises though. Madrid prices are a lot lower than they were ten years ago.

Tomorrow I am off on my travels. ON my way to see marbella for the first time, take a look at the Rock of Gibraltar, meet a lot of people who I can "Desvirtualizar" and have lots of meetings with a lot of people. This is all to do with the Spanish Property Magazine to get more agreements in place with agents to show off their properties in the best way possible.

It's not like me to blow my own trumpet (OK it is but I keep it pretty quiet on the blog) but I would just like to point out how others who have an iPad are seeing the Spanish Property Magazine. Take a look at a few of the reviews of the magazine left in the app store. Full of useful information and fantastic images ★★★★★

Apple has approved the third issue of the Spanish Property Magazine and you can now go and pick up your copy after downloading the app from itunes. In this issue we look at how to live on a rock in two ways. Firstly a rock in the Atlantic, or a collection of rocks known as the Canary Islands and secondly a Rock tagged onto the Iberian Peninsula, the Campo de Gibraltar. We also take a look at the new residency requirements in an extremely important article by Lisa Sadleir and have a study of how low the banks can go and what makes up the new "Bad Bank" in Spain

A really difficult client arrived last week in Valencia to look at property. Now I don't want you to get the impression I am complaining here because I mean difficult in a good way. How I hear you ask? Well, the client was ultra prepared for their visit and so therefore knew a lot more than the average client about Valencia and the process of buying properties. This created a small problem, the lack of small talk in the car :-).