Guides
Four routes through what actually decides an off-plan purchase on the Costa Blanca, written for someone who is still choosing. None of them sells a particular home. Each ends where your notary begins: with the list of what you can ask for, read and check yourself.
How to read a Spanish advert
Almost every figure in a Spanish advert is true and almost none of them is measured the same way. What each square metre means, what the photographs leave out, and how much the person who published it can actually promise.
What «obra nueva» means
Spanish law calls a home new because nobody has ever owned it, not because it looks modern. That one line decides which tax you pay, which guarantees you inherit and where your money has to sit while the building goes up.
The purchase, document by document
A Spanish purchase is not a sequence of feelings but a chain of papers signed in a fixed order. What each one is, who issues it, and what to look at before the money moves.
Agency, promotor or builder
Whoever introduces you, whoever builds and whoever answers for the defects are three different parties. How to tell them apart, who pays each of them, and what to verify about the one that will sign with you.
Benidorm, Villajoyosa, Alicante
Three scales of one market: the city, the town next door and the whole province.
3D visualisation of the Villajoyosa project. Benidorm is the skyline behind it: the two markets are visible from one spot and bought in different ways. 
3D visualisation of the development. Between the plot and this drawing sit the building licence and the local plan, both of which can be checked today. 
3D visualisation from the street. The plot exists and is public in the land registry; the building, for now, only in the design.
Tell us what you are looking at
Two or three sentences are enough: which area you are looking in, whether new-build or resale interests you, and how you would like to be answered. The person who handles the Spanish market replies.