HAMILTON DIRECT: Sell your property direct to the buyer

May 8th, 2012

Yes, selling resale properties is pretty tough.  Firstly banks are offering repossessions at throw away prices, secondly developers are offering brand new properties at unbeatable prices with incredible finance and finally you, the seller needs to pay 5% commission to the agent selling the property.
At a time when bank financing, and taxation law (higher costs [...]

A Walk around Duquesa Village

October 13th, 2010

Lovely clean pools - Duquesa Village

The Spanish property market has often been criticised by the UK Press - oversupply, poor specifications, run by cowboys  - and so the list goes on.  And yes, this has been true some of the time.  However, there are some jewels out there - some properties that really do represent [...]

Spain, Credit Crunch and Creativity

April 26th, 2009

All we hear these days is about the credit crunch.  Everything is doom and gloom - bankruptcies, unemployment and social unrest.  The list of negative outcomes goes on and on and on.  Listening to this the whole time can itself create a self fulfilling prophecy.  By focusing on how bad things are, we psychologically will [...]

Economic Crisis; Should Savers Suffer

April 15th, 2009

A Personal Perspective

Should Savers be the ones to Suffer?
Well, I ask myself. Is this really fair? I guess, you’d say is life fair? However despite the latter, I think that the way we encourage our society to act ‘appropriately’ is really a bit of a farce. Take the current economic crisis at present. Some people [...]