Buy a House in Inland Spain

Are you thinking of coming to live in inland Spain?

Hello

It’s been a couple of months since I last posted on my blog. We have been busy collecting the olive crop from my smallholding. This is hard but satisfying work beating the trees with a long pole, collecting the olives in nets on the floor, filling sacks and taking the olives to the local olive factory for processing into virgin olive oil.

We have had additions to the family, my bitch Becky as given birth to three pups, Maggie, Rosie and Packa, they are beautiful little things. Their proud father Pepi plays with them all the time.

On January 31st 2009 we decided that we will sell our current home in Spain, I am very excited that we have taken the decision. We will be moving nearer to family on the Costa del Sol.

That said we will treat it as a new adventure and we are looking forward to the move, they say the housing market in Spain is depressed and nothing is moving, that may be so however we believe that every house as a buyer waiting for it so here goes.

Thinking of coming to live in inland Spain? Our home is nestled in a valley midway between Yunquera and El Burgo in Malaga Province, Anderlusia. On entering the valley you encounter a rough road which is made good each year by the National Park. Drive along a little way and you enter the valley proper.

There are 20 plus property’s here and it is so beautiful and peaceful,l a place to die for as they say. Only three homes are occupied full time the rest are weekend homes for people who live and work in Malaga and Ronda

Low and behold Thursday 12th 2009 the electric people have arrived to start installing the high tension power so that at last we will have real electricity, wow thought we would have moved before it arrived.

We use a generator for electricity, we have our own legal well and get good sweet drinking water. There are three good size bedrooms, a large bathroom, living room and kitchen with breakfast bar, every window looks out onto fantastic views. Plus it is a legal build

The property sits in 25,000m2 of fenced land it is in 2 plots one with the house on and the other has a footprint for a house, we have olive, lemon, orange, fig, almond, avocado, walnut, carob, cherry, apple and pear trees.

Two years ago we planted a fruit orchard of quince, pomegranate, peaches, apricots and plums, we also have an allotment for growing our own vegetables.

We have 5000m2 of pine forest which is part of the Sierra de las Nieves National Park with pine and cork trees, wild rosemary, lavender, sage and lots of rare wild plants plus wild mushrooms, many of the plants I'm still trying to find out the names of.

We get plenty of wood for winter fires, the national forest workers cut it leave some for the locals to collect plus there are always thousands of cones to collect which are great for starting you fire and helping to keep it burning if the wood gets a bit damp.

We have set aside land for a swimming pool and greenhouses, leaving plenty of land over for growing other crops, and keeping animals. With 34 chickens keeps us in eggs with some left over which we sell to the locals in the village of El Burgo.

We are ideally placed for rural tourism which can be grant eligible, The Spanish Government are looking to give help to bring tourist and jobs to Spain


More posts to come with infomation on our house, the villages, people and lots of other things.

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