Make numbers, not nonsense. Let's see how you have to declare your income and what you can deduct. Let's suppose that we have bought a house for € 100,000 financed with a mortgage and that we rent it for € 10,000 per year (€ 833 /...
"I need to find an apartment to rent now". "I can’t find anything reasonable to rent". "My friends are looking for a house to rent". I’ve been hearing this quite a lot lately, sometimes by pure chance, others because people know that this is what...
The Real Estate Personal Shopper, a deeply rooted profession in Anglo-Saxon countries, is still little known in Spain. Traditionally, to buy a home we use advertisements published in different media and well-known real estate agencies, who offer us their homes in portfolio or expand the...
We are tired of hearing and reading news saying that the price of housing rose during 2017, a trend that already started in 2016. Well, everything predicts new increases in 2018. Like any statistical data, it is necessary to analyze them in detail and understand the...
At this time of the beginning of the year, in addition to the good wishes for personal improvement, new habits, resuming good routines or cultivating relationships, it is also time to plan, quantify, budget and define a plan for each of our projects. And if we...
How much do we talk? How much do we listen? Surely many times too much in the first case and too little in the second. A wise man said long ago that we have two ears and only one mouth for a reason… We can think...
I love Madrid. I like all its neighborhoods, each one with its charms, its corners, its people and its special moment of the day. Some neighborhoods are a classic in our lives, others we have discovered over the years, but always discovering something new in...
Because I need a bigger apartment, because I want to get closer to the city centre, because I prefer to live in an urbanization, because I’m relocating or because I’ve received a home in inheritance, I’ve decided to sell my apartment. Once this decision is...
I could write a piece of fiction or tell you something I’ve heard or read, but no, it is a real and very recent experience. It is happening. Suddenly you receive calls asking for a flat for rent of which you have no knowledge and...
I could have written it myself, but in this case I want to translate what many foreigners living in Madrid write and say, expatriates in Madrid, some of them acquaintances, others friends. They are people of many countries who after having lived many years in...