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The Fallas fiestas are becoming more well known worldwide as social media and people's own experiences are shared through images on Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. My first experiences of Fallas were in 1988 when I visited Valencia during the University holidays and back in those days of course none of this existed so I was surprised, no... I was blown away.

There is a major difference between Spanish people who buy apartments and foreign buyers in general. The Spanish go for location and the foreigners go for light and outside space. If you find a flat in the city that has a great location, lots of light and outside space then you are suddenly competing with other buyers and should not expect price drops in the near future for them.

I have been living in a community in Spain for 12 years now and I am still not an alcoholic. When you live in a flat in Spain you live in a community and when you live, as I do, in a set of terraced houses sharing a garden and pool then you also live in a community. If you buy a house in the Campo then you won't but you may still be popping into your local village to participate in the local fiestas.

I have said this before and I will say it again, at times I despair of Spain. (I actually said I despair of bank and I despair of sellers but you know what I mean) This again was brought home to me this week because of a few things.

Over the last few weeks I have been showing lots of Valencia Property to clients and getting a variety of reactions. Some people want a key ready property where no work is needed at all. Some want a place that needs a bit of work and some even want a place where you need to do everything. However this is all to be expected. Everyone has different requirements of course.

If you are looking for a great bargain property that is rather large and really well put together then this one could be the one for you. Set just outside Gandia in the orange groves but fully urbanised and registered as such in the property registry and catastro, this seven bedroom property has been reduced from 540K originally down to 300K now. Well worth a look if you are fishing about in this type of area.

I have had the fortune to travel around the Valencian community quite a lot in the last few weeks and I have noticed some major differences since the last time I was able to do it. I have been down to Javea a couple of times with excellent weather to accompany me. Because of this as I wasn't in a hurry I took the CV332 rather than the toll motorway. I saw this carbuncle near to Favara.

I have spent the last two days in Mallorca visiting friends and preparing a presentation for the Foro Luis Vives in Valencia on the 9th of March. Whilst there I stayed at the Finca Sant Blai near Campos and have to say it is an idyllic setting and for one lucky person or family it is also a great opportunity.

Yet again we have had a ridiculously busy week in Valencia. Therefore I think it is time to let you know which houses for sale in Spain have been put up onto the Valencia Property site this week, which properties have been visited and which properties are no longer available because they have been sold.

Just to the north of Valencia, 4km exactly, is the Marina village of Port Saplaya. Now Port Saplaya has an internal Marina, and many properties have views over the Marina or the Mediterranean, just avoid the ones with the views over the motorway to the back.

Possibly the worst words I can possibly hear from a seller of a property are those in this title. "I am in no hurry to sell". Not because this means that they will not sell to a shark circling trying to find properties at really low prices but simply because it means their expectations are unrealistic.

This beautiful flat has just come up for sale right in the heart of the Bario Carmen in Valencia. So my question is can you guess the price. Remember that at the height of the boom prices in the Carmen area of Valencia reached 3411 Euros per square metre and attic flats sold at a premium to that.

If you have been looking at Valencia Property's You Tube Channel you will have seen all of the 100 tips for moving to Spain and more. However have you ever looked at our playlists. I made a new playlist for you today. This one is of various videos about Valencia. You can see our Valencia Video playlist here.

Life has just got a lot easier in Valencia as the process of getting a NIE number for European Union Residents has been moved again. You now get your Spanish NIE Number in Valencia behind the railway station in Calle Bailen.

What does a Spanish Estate Agent do? Or rather what do I do as a Spanish real estate agent and property finder? Today I have to do some housekeeping for clients.

With the news that some flats in London at 1 Hyde Park are the most expensive real estate in the World at some 6000 Pounds per square foot (about 75000 Euros per square metre!!! Obscene) I thought I would ask the question, where is Valencia's equivalent of One Hyde Park?

I was up in Montroy yesterday looking at a property and was invited to look at another that is for sale too. Now I have to say that the property was gorgeous, a log cabin but one of the proper ones not a shed. Three bedrooms, previously a show house so everything looking really nice and beautifully presented (If I get the listing you will see it here soon)

The best magazine about Valencia at the moment is inVLC previously known as Britchat. I thought you might like to take a look at the magazine so here is this month's issue embedded for you to have a look at.