Spanish Property News

Completing on a new property in Spain is an exciting time and there are lots of things to organise. Finances, NIE numbers, signing dates – after waiting for your Spanish property to be built it can suddenly feel like a whirlwind has hit you. Additionally with Sterling now much weaker against the Euro the money you set aside to set up the property may have to stretch that much further. Furnishing your property will be high up on your to-do list but it can seem both a daunting and expensive task.

Actually it doesn’t need to be either. In our experience the best places to choose your furniture are the local furniture shops. These businesses are generally family run and offer good value quality furniture coupled with excellent service. Typically they have a show room where you can see the basic designs available and plenty of catalogues which give you lots of additional options.

We’ve found a huge benefit of buying locally is that the owners often know the size and shape of the properties on new developments in their area. This is really helpful as even armed with detailed plans and photos it can be difficult to assess what will and won’t work, especially when you are furnishing a whole property in one go.

Delivery is a matter of days, not the weeks we are accustomed to in the UK. Extra requests such as the adding a sofa bed mechanism to a sofa or co-ordinating dining chairs and sofas are easily accommodated.

Most places we have seen offer different ‘grades’ of furniture – for instance you will have a basic quality mattress, medium and top of the range. I suggest that unless you are going to be using the property full time the medium quality range of furniture is ideal in terms of both quality and price. Fully furnishing a two bedroom apartment with medium grade furniture should cost you around 4,000 Euros.

We’ve got a number of clients about to complete on their off-plan properties and we have been showing them some of the furniture stores here on the Costa Calida that we recommend they consider. This is all part of the service Dream Spain clients receive.

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