It’s obvious the McBroon Government is imploding day by day as first the Ghurkhas stick the kukri knife in over the immigration botch-up, then the Daily Telegraph reveals the head of the McBroon clan himself – his talentless YouTube appearance now derided - paid nearly £7,000 to his brother for cleaning his flat.
Then we had the revelation the Mexican flu scare might be a scam to keep that country’s ruling elite in power… The gullible McBroons fell for that one too, preparing for Armageddon by teaching the world how to sneeze proper!
Sane and sensible Brits are convinced the McBroons mob are a mockery, failing on their promises, presiding over a busted Britain and steering the ship of state onto the rocks, where it may well remain for a decade while the citizens work to be taxed more so the £750 billion borrowings can be repaid.
Many Brits are abandoning ship, heading for sunnier shores like Spain.
If it was Mock the Week for the McBroons, it was all hands to the deck in the Spanish property market as Brits took advantage of flights costing as little as £26, including the taxes heaped-on by the McBroons to keep us safe as we shop our way through British airports on the way to the Easyjet or Ryanair plane.
Property sales were brisk along the main Costas as Brits and other northern Europeans queued to view the bargain homes on offer. One local estate agent reported sales running at two a day, up from one a month just a few months ago. One bargain, a golfside, fully furnished must sell 2-bed apartment, sold for £62,000 as five Brits battled to secure it.
Elsewhere, bayview, key ready villas in Puerto Mazarron, Murcia were on offer at £159,000 with 90% bank guaranteed mortgages and 3-year rental guarantees. That’s an offer with a lot of appeal to over-50s looking for a holiday home with fulltime living potential.
It is the over-50s and pensioners, suffering badly in the aftermath of the McBroon fiscal horror show, who can more easily take advantage of the property downturn, bag a bargain and make the move to sunny Spain. More of them have this week, and there'll be more from now on...
Showing posts with label estate agents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label estate agents. Show all posts
8 May 2009
26 August 2008
Estate agents lose out to the lettuce sellers
Once there were a lot of them, but now they are closing down their offices on a daily basis all over the Cost del Sol and Costa Blanca, where 80,000 estate agents are thought to have lost their jobs.
For those people who didn’t realise there were so many people selling property in Spain that figure might come as a surprise, but it is just a fraction of the job losses suffered by the guys who have been building the villas and apartments.
Big name agents like Fincas Corral, MC Inmobiliaria, and Don Piso have closed up to 75 percent of their hundreds of branches and the 10 biggest chains in Spain have closed an average of 150 estate agent offices..
No-one will miss them, least of all the Spanish College of Estate Agents, Their president, Santiago Baena, while admitting the closures have been brutal, claims most of them were not proper estate agents anyway. "We always said training was essential but they ask for more training for a man selling lettuce in the market because he has to use a machine."
The construction workers have gone grape picking in France where they, apparently, earn more money (€8.71/£6.95), according to their trade union bosses. Picking lettuce in Almeria doesn’t offer that sort of money, so there is uncertainty for jobless estate agents seeking a new cash crop to harvest.
The mass closure of estate agents' offices may also be a symptom of the way the Spanish real estate industry is changing.
One of Spain’s leading property sales websites is www.propertyinspain.net whose one-stop. select-view-purchase offer once covered all Spain’s second home areas, has also trimmed back on its local affiliate network to concentrate on the best bargain areas. They have retained multi-lingual, well-trained property professionals in key areas to look after their buyers seeking big discounts they first spotted on their website.
Gareth Milton, operations manager of www.propertyshowrooms.com said: "Companies who had always focused on web-based activities without the massive overheads associated with a network of physical branch offices are the ones more likely to weather the storm."
For those people who didn’t realise there were so many people selling property in Spain that figure might come as a surprise, but it is just a fraction of the job losses suffered by the guys who have been building the villas and apartments.
Big name agents like Fincas Corral, MC Inmobiliaria, and Don Piso have closed up to 75 percent of their hundreds of branches and the 10 biggest chains in Spain have closed an average of 150 estate agent offices..
No-one will miss them, least of all the Spanish College of Estate Agents, Their president, Santiago Baena, while admitting the closures have been brutal, claims most of them were not proper estate agents anyway. "We always said training was essential but they ask for more training for a man selling lettuce in the market because he has to use a machine."
The construction workers have gone grape picking in France where they, apparently, earn more money (€8.71/£6.95), according to their trade union bosses. Picking lettuce in Almeria doesn’t offer that sort of money, so there is uncertainty for jobless estate agents seeking a new cash crop to harvest.
The mass closure of estate agents' offices may also be a symptom of the way the Spanish real estate industry is changing.
One of Spain’s leading property sales websites is www.propertyinspain.net whose one-stop. select-view-purchase offer once covered all Spain’s second home areas, has also trimmed back on its local affiliate network to concentrate on the best bargain areas. They have retained multi-lingual, well-trained property professionals in key areas to look after their buyers seeking big discounts they first spotted on their website.
Gareth Milton, operations manager of www.propertyshowrooms.com said: "Companies who had always focused on web-based activities without the massive overheads associated with a network of physical branch offices are the ones more likely to weather the storm."
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