The Great Spanish Property Podcast Debate

The Great Spanish Property Debate, we feel is our most informative overseas property podcast to date. Bringing together the collective knowledge and experience of three top Spanish property experts, this online debate puts the record straight on what the future holds for buyers of property in Spain.

As part of Nubricks second overseas property podcast series, this hour long Spanish podcast contains information that buyers and owners of Spanish Property both need to hear. “Our podcastees are professionals who have an impartial, bird’s eye view of the Spanish property market” explained host Adam Samuel Nubricks resident podcaster. “the Sunday Times resident ‘Spanish Property Doctor’ Mark Stucklin’s wealth of Spanish property knowledge, Kyero.com Martin Dell’s attention to Spanish property search statistical detail and the weight of Aguirre Newmans Wynn Williamson’s market analyst forecasts, combine to offer three unique perspectives on the business of Spanish property and whether Spanish Property will boom or bust in 2007.

Our recent blog on Astroc Mediterraneo’s plummeting stock price, is just part of a rash of press coverage property in Spain has received recently, some of which have chosen to report an overly dire outlook hinting at a spanish property market crash. “People have heard about maybe a property crash in Spain which is not the truth, that was a mis-representation of a stock market adjustment” clarified Mark.

Adam gets the scoop from Martin on a new set of analytics due to launch on Kyero.com soon.“The results are quite surprising. In terms of pure volume of activity Granada is the most popular province” reveals Martin who goes on reveal which provinces are up coming hotspotslosing and locations losing popularity.

This Spanish property podcast touches on all aspects of Spanish property, what conclusions we can draw from online search trends, how improved urban planning is leading to better designed developments responding to demand for example more properties with golf courses and advice for individuals with properties in Spain to sell and what areas prospective buyers should keep their eye on. Wynn hints at an untapped market “garages are very profitable in a lot of major cities like Madrid and Barcelona, even some smaller places like Salamanca and Tarragona”.

Martin is frank “come and take a look for yourself, I think the opportunities are certainly there” with Mark concluding “Spain is not a meltdown market where property is being given away free. When you really boil it down to what do you get, what you get in Spain is a much greater overall package and value than in what they refer to as the emerging markets. I just cannot believe anyone would lose money on good quality property in Spanish coastal areas over 10 years.”

Property in Spain remains the top market for Britons buying abroad. The AIPP (Association of International Property Professionals) International Property Market 2006 Report shows of the nearly £20 billion Britons spent on overseas property in 2006, nearly 1/3rd (31.6%) of overseas properties bought by British buyers in 2006 are in Spain and to further compound the evidence, property research from Scenari Immobiliari Outlook for 2007, revealed Spain enjoyed the highest increase in real estate turnover in Europe last year, showing a growth of eight per cent in 2006, compared with 3.9 per cent in Europe as a whole.

If you agree or disagree with any of the comments made by Adam, Mark, Martin or Wynn, why not have your say by clicking the ‘Comments‘ link under the title of this post.

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The podcast has been removed as it is now out of date.

Length: 01:05:32

Update 04/06/07: Wynn Williamson would like to amend his comments on time to sell units in Spain. He actually meant time to sell out a whole development.