Ex-pats in South Costa Blanca

eihpos | 13:49 Tue 24th Oct 2006 | Destinations

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We are looking to move to this area. Anyone have any first hand information or know of a good ex-pats site to investigate everything more fully. also interested in job/business opportunities there.

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Jane Hunt

There are two excellent websites that give loads of information about all the regions of Spain:

http://www.spanish-property-today.com
http://www.spanish-property-for-sale.tv

Jovica

Try Alicante-Spain.com.

graham1024uk

Well I live in Alicante have done for 2 years, if your looking to buy a place here, dont buy in the big property developments you wont make any money back as they are over built, Alicante is great its nice and spanish, Torrevieca is full of brits I hate the place its full of down and out brits, nice places nr alicante, are San Juan, El Campello, Altea, Alfaz Del Pi, Villajosa, property is good value and you will make money with out hassle.

When you come out here the first thing you need to do is get a NIE its like a spanish National insurance number, when you have that you can open a Spanish Bank account with just a copy of your NIE and your passport and if you have a mortgage you need a spanish bank account, the best account is either Bancaja or Banco Popular, do not go with CAM or BBVA there awful, I would not be lieing to tell you in alicante alone theres prop. 20 different bank, some are regional some are national, Bancaja regional and you can do stuff online in english.

Any help with getting property or a mortgage email me and ill put you in the right direction my email is [email protected]

KARL

There is unlikely to be any single site but there will be different ones which tend to cater for different nationalities. If you can manage Spanish then you will be more likely to get a clearer picture, especially if you can put together questions. It is accepted wisdom that many British expatriates take advantage of green ones turning up over there and it is quite possible the same applies to established expats of other nationalities. Beware, there is a huge catalogue of stories of people having their dreams ripped off and destroyed - many bitter people (some still there) will testify to this.