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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 :-).

You may have noticed that there have been a few new properties put into Valencia Property this week however you may not have noticed that a lot of stuff has been going on in the background too. Of the properties there is new stuff available in Lliria, Benaguasil, Valencia, Torrente and Olocau. There are also a lot more to come over the next few days and weeks.

On Friday it rained in Valencia finally. As I have said before it was seven or eight months since the last time it rained so it was well overdue. However, when seven months rain falls in one night it can cause a few problems. Take a look at my Facebook profile to see one of the effects of the storm in Valencia, a great photo that appeared in the paper is currently my timeline background picture.

Sometimes you find an apartment so you just cannot sell so it gets ignored and never gets onto the site. Why might one not be able to sell it, price, location, construction quality... any number of reasons really. However, sometimes you get to see a property and you think "What a shame!" It has been ignored, underdeveloped, left to get dirty and generally unappreciated. Guess which category this falls into?

I have been trying out a new App on the iPad called Haiku Deck. Take a look at what ten minutes work can do.

It has been a quiet couple of months for the Spain is Different Magazine as I have been concentrating on holidays, clients and the new Spanish Property Magazine. Therefore I thought it time to put together a new issue, number 21 which brings together some of the best stories from the last couple of months in Spain.

I thought it would be a good idea to take you through the Spanish Property Magazine for the iPad. Now for those of you who don't have an iPad you might be interested in taking a look to see what it looks like. For those of you who have an iPad then take a look at what the magazine offers you.

It has been very remiss of me over the last month or so but very few properties have been added onto the Valencia Property site. No excuses because if things are selling, as they are despite what you may read, then I need to replace the properties that have been sold with others that are equal or better deals.

August has been quiet in Valencia Property land. Not too many clients through the doors which is unusual but September is looking very very busy at the moment. Therefore a little bit of advice and some dates to avoid. Firstly if you are coming over to visit and look at some properties make sure to give me plenty of time to organise your visits. Mail me and reserve your space. Also the 12th and 13th of September are probably out as it looks like I may be in Madrid on those dates.

The last two weeks in Valencia have had people complaining about the heat but funnily enough it is not actually as hot as normal according to the numbers, just around 32 degrees every day. However we are getting a really humid period at the moment and you walk around dripping. This is not the case in all parts of Spain, Madrid is a lot hotter but dry, Seville just gets seriously hot, North West Spain copies the UK weather patterns, rain, sunny spells and if it isn't raining it has just rained or it's about to rain.

We do very few rentals but every year in September we have an influx of teachers and parents coming into the international schools looking for rental property. Therefore we take on some good properties for rental in the city as this is where the majority of the teachers want to live and we take on some villas for the parents and their families.

I went on holiday last week to my favourite place in Spain, Asturias. Why is it my favourite? The food and the people. Why couldn't I live there, the food! Honestly I would be at least twenty kilos heavier if I lived in Asturias. The food is voluminous and gorgeous. The weather isn't great in Asturias you know. It is not called the green coast for no reason. It rains. We were there for ten days and we had two full beach days possible although we did actually go to the beach more than that, not too much just enough to not get bored.

I was looking in YouTube at a few things today and came upon this video of Valencia. Not seen it before so I thought you might like to see it too. It includes most of the things that you can se when you come to Valencia and bear in mind that taking pictures in Valencia is different at different times of day and year.