Open House in a great villa at Puerto del Almendro

I am pleased to invite everybody to an Open House to be celebrated on October 26 between 11:00 and 17:30 at Villa Dagmara (plot 27/28), Puerto del Almendro (Ronda road), Benahavis, Marbella -- Costa del Sol.

Spaciousness is the feeling when entering this fantastic villa notable for the ample spaces and the brightness of all rooms. Specially lightly is the living and dinning room with large windows that give access to a generous plot offering fantastic sea and mountain views. The ample main bedroom incorporates an ensuite bathroom and dressing room. Four more bedrooms complete the lay out of the main house. But, not only that but also a guest apartment with two more bedrooms and a staff apartment with living room, kitchenette, two bedrooms and a bath make this house a real opportunity.

You can have a look to this outstanding property while enjoying a snack consisting of Exotic delicatessen with the company of friends and professionals of the real estate field.

RE/MAX Collection Presentation Video

RE/MAX Collection is the luxury branch of RE/MAX and is now in Marbella with Alfredo Goizueta and Alfonso Lacruz. Watch what is RE/MAX Collection is this presentation video. Now, and more than ever, a new dimension in real estate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EUIbKuJoc&feature=youtu.be

RE/MAX Eralia has reached the number ONE in Andalucia

RE/MAX Eralia has reached the number one in the ranking of RE/MAX offices in Andalucia. Four RE/MAX Eralia agents are in top ten of Andalucia and Dan Shirqui (2º) and Alfonso Lacruz (5º) among the best five. Althoughthe real estate market is not at its best, we keep on growing. As I have said in many ocassions, it is only hard work.

The Bank of Spain has announced that they expect higher reductions in the price of the Spanish properties.

The Bank of Spain has announced that the price of the housing in Spain needs more adjustments. In an illustrative graphic, they show the tendency of the prices in this cycle compared to that of the previous real estate crisis of 1991 and 1979. If you follow that logic, there are still two years to reach the lowest level. Is that true? Probably no one knows what is going to happen but one thing is true, the actual tendency fits exactly on those previsions. That does not mean anything but people selling or thinking on selling in the near future have to consider seriously what the experts say when preparing their future real estate movements. There is also something important to be thought about by sellers: this report is on banking status and we all know that the banks, owners of a great number of properties, have a lot to say in this complicated real estate market. If the decide to go for it, they will break the market. It happened in the 1991 cycle, and it will happen again.

Still a complicated market. Closed Transactions chart for Benahavis.

The data published by the Spanish Ministry of Housing shows it. The number of operations closed per quarter has gone down heavily in Benahavis to half of that of 2010. Furthermore, the prices are still going down as was shown in the last July report also issued by the Spanish Ministry. What is going on? It is difficult to say but, according to a number of real estate agents I work with, the news does not help and we are facing a lack of confidence in our market/country. We had the Japanese earthquake and the Greek crisis at the beginning of the spring and those events ruined what has been usually the best quarter of the year. The situation, again based on our experience, has improved during the summer but it is tough to sell a property. The conclusion can be only one: if you do not need to sell, don’t even try but if you have to, go for it and fix the most competitive price in your area.