We are Willy and Annemie, both in our mid-50s with 2 children, in their mid-20s. My “dada” was always to have something in the mountains and both our summer and winter leave went to Alps in 50% of the cases. After a search of more than 2 years, I realized that this dream is not affordable. In addition, Annemie also started to appreciate the warmth and light of the south more and more. The crisis (money in the bank only costs money) and an ambitious son who nevertheless pushed to invest has accelerated the decision to take the step.
Hello, we are Bart and Sabrina. Together with our 2 children, Lotte and Senne, we had been dreaming of having our own holiday home for a few years. Preferably in an area with beautiful nature, warm temperatures and a pleasant population. We came across that dream in October 2017. Thanks to the good guidance of Geert and Patricia and after visiting a few houses, we fell in love with our current holiday home. Everything suddenly went very quickly. Geert and Patricia have helped us on the way with the process of purchasing and paperwork. Even after the sale, they were still at our disposal. No question was too much
Hello everyone! Our story starts 33 years ago when we met through an aunt of mine.My husband, André, had one more wish and that was moving to the Ardèche! In the meantime I have seen the Ardèche region 33 times over the years.
With the opening of Bed & Breakfast Los Montes in May 2011, we realized our long-standing dream. After consultation with our youngest son, Robin, we decided to take the step. It gradually became now or never.I had built up a great career in the insurance world, while Dirk had been working continuously for many years in a chemical company in the port of Antwerp. More and more we longed for a different kind of life. A life without stress, where we have time for each other and for our family
Hello, we’re Ron and Marijke… At the end of April 2018, we were still musing under a palm tree at a swimming pool in Malaysia about our future as retirees. Inspired by the sunny decor, we both thought that the Netherlands was often wet and cold and that we would feel better at home in a warmer climate. But why wait until retirement? Maybe we should already orientate and enjoy!
Elke and Guy Hola! We are Elke and Guy and run a bed and breakfast under the Andalusian sun: Casa Utopia in the “real” Spanish village of Alcaucin. Our search started in 2015, in fact we had a bed and breakfast in the Ardennes that we operated as a secondary occupation. We were only open on weekends, during the week we each had our job.
Hello, we’re Mireille and Patrick and we live in Zemst. All our lives we have held the dream of having our own place ‘somewhere’ in the south of Europe. We browsed the internet for several years, looking for a nice place to stay. Destinations such as Portugal, France, Greece and the like have been discussed. Until we arrived at the Hotel La Viñuela in 2012, due to an unforeseen
For years we have been thinking to start en new adventure and move to Spain, preferably the region of Andalucía. A big step, one you don’t decide on overnight but more then once has been put aside because of other more important matters, personal, work etc. September 2006 however was the moment we dediced to start our dream of emigrating to spain. In the meanwhile, 2 years have past and we did make the big move.
Hello, we met Geert and Patricia in 2013, when we were looking for an apartment. After a busy 3-day search we had already found our dream apartment in Torrox Costa which later rented out very well. We were very well supervised, everything was arranged for us while we were in Belgium.
How did we find Geert and Patricia to achieve our dream? The idea of having our own place in the sunny south became reality when we started looking at a few properties on the internet. We made contact with Geert and Patricia in order to obtain some more information. We found a good selection of interesting properties in the region of Alicante. In April 2017 we had planned some visits, both in the region of Alicante but also in the region where we now have lost or hearts…Andalucia!
We are Ingrid and Johan and our two children Ricky and Mercina. Due to the often chilly and rainy weather, we were tired of our apartment in Ostend for some time already. For a long time we were quietly dreaming of a house somewhere in a beautiful spot under the sun. Croatia seemed interesting to us after a few holidays, but we had not yet discovered the spot to our liking. We’d often browse the internet to see what was on sale around the world, from Florida to Greece.
We Renate and Peter, parents with 2 big children, have been the proud owners of “Casa Arboleda Sayalonga” since December 2016, a luxury holiday home with swimming pool on 3200 m2 of land in the municipality of Sayalonga. We want to thank Geert, Patricia and Charlotte of “Andalucia real estate” for our search for this property. Not only for the search with expert and reliable advice, but especially also for taking practical and complicated matters out of your hands about buying and transferring a home afterwards.
We , Filip and Valerie and our son Cédric, now live in Spain since January 2011. Before that we both had our full time job in teaching.In Belgium we had the perfect life, but we wanted to travel more. At one point we were so enthousiastic that we decided that one day we would to make the big transition to build a new life in warmer climates. ‘One day’ came faster that expected! Without telling anyone of our plans, we travelled to Portugal in February 2010. We have build a house twice already in Belgium and wanted to build again. During the Easter holiday we went back to Portugal. Adn then got stuck because of the ash-cloud. We could not get home in time to start teaching, our colleague didn’t even know we were away travelling…
Hello We are José and Frans, Our story begins in 2015. We were looking for another destination to spend our holidays. In September we rented a detached house in the mountains between Torrox and Competa, we loved it!!! Afterwards we flew several times in May and September to Andalusia and rented several houses and enjoyed the amazing views and the natural surroundings. We already got more jitters and had already said to each other: ‘if we were ever going to do something with our ideas the Axarquía region certainly enjoyed our preference.
We had enough of the drizzly winters and especially the drizzly springs (and often summers, etc.). For some time the plan had matured to have a warm place where we could recharge our batteries and perhaps remain permanent later in life.The Spanish real estate market started to pick up again and if we still wanted to enjoy interesting real estate prices, we shouldn’t keep dreaming about it.
Our Spanish story…. We had dreamed about it for a number of years, a house in Spain, as a holiday home and eventually when we would retire, to stay more often, or possibly permanently Only, it was not yet clear where exactly and whether it would be affordable. The crisis ultimately played to our advantage here… For several years we regularly went on holiday to Spain. Our preferences for nature went to the green north. Basque Country, Asturias and Cantabria with the Picos de Europa, Galicia …Only drawback: the weather there is a big question mark, a lot of rain in the summer, snow in the winter, in terms of climate not much better than with us.
