The Valencia Property Podcast

The Valencia Property Podcast is niche, of course it is. Here we will look at the Valencia Property market, the latest news and deals, interviews, blogs and the process of moving here. We answer your questions, look into the process of buying property and much more.

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Episodes

Friday Jul 29, 2022

Hi there and welcome to the latest monthly episode of the Valencia Property Podcast. Today we are going to explore the top tips that the most important people give us, our clients. Those who have already made the move and made their purchase.
 
What do they think are the most important aspects to bear in mind when looking for your Valencia Property?
 
I sent out a voice note on whatsapp to our clients and got a load of responses in various accents and of varying lengths. Listen to them all and take them on board. Some answers you would expect but there are other excellent tips too that are more surprising. More to come next month when our podcast will be in the first week of September.
 
Our Recommended Articles this month are listed in the show notes as are the featured properties and a recommended video. Take a look in the notes and click through to see them. 
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/06/27/comparing-living-in-valencia-the-uk-or-the-usa-in-2sc/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/07/04/the-best-laid-plans-covid-19-and-a-summer-quiz/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/07/11/how-much-do-property-sellers-have-to-pay-in-spain/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/07/19/the-market-and-the-weather-are-hot-hot-hot/
 
Recommended Properties
https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-city/pass-the-dutchie-1888.php
https://www.valencia-property.com/naquera/blank-slate-villa-1892.php
https://www.valencia-property.com/chiva/views-and-breezes-in-calicanto-1889.php Now sold!
 
Recommended Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLVOeSSIenY Our Calicanto video shows this villa up well
 
The music is by Ghost Drones, the images are all ours at www.valencia-property.com and you can contact us with your questions, requirements and anything else on information@valencia-property.com 
 

Friday Jun 24, 2022

Hello and welcome back to the Valencia property podcast. As you might know if you followed our first series we are going monthly now as opposed to weekly as the main issues we wanted to cover we have covered, we will keep referring back to them in the rest of the episodes and let you know episode numbers where applicable.
 
Our plan now is a monthly podcast done in a slightly different way with more interviews, more market information and a whole lot more concentration on what we have listed and written in the previous month along with even more concentration on our listener questions. We would like to thank all of those people who sent in questions and remember that if you have a question then it's more than likely that others have had the same question so it's useful to others to have you ask it. Remember you can send us a voice note, a written question or even a short video from which we will take the audio file for the podcast. It's always useful for us. 
 
The main part of this pod is myself, Gavin and David answering your FAQs about Valencia Property when out and about. What do you think are the most typical questions? 
 
Interview with Sheila on the All About You Podcast
https://valencia-property.com/new/aay
 
Recommended Articles
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/05/30/what-makes-leliana-so-popular/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/06/06/utility-costs-on-your-valencia-property/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/06/13/why-you-cannot-see-properties-at-the-weekend/
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/06/20/the-ten-most-common-questions-about-valencia-property/
 
Recommended Properties
L'Eliana villa for some quality family time ;-) https://www.valencia-property.com/la-eliana/villa-for-some-quality-family-time-1880.php
Transatlantic Investment Apartment in Valencia https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-city/transatlantic-apartment-1879.php 
Avocadoes, Oranges and Felicity Kendall https://www.valencia-property.com/torres-torres/avocados,-oranges-and-the-self-sufficiency-dream-1878.php
A Garden of Delights and 1001 Nights https://www.valencia-property.com/turis/a-garden-of-delights-and-a-1001-nights-1877.php
Death and Descriptions in the Afternoon https://www.valencia-property.com/la-pobla-de-vallbona/death-and-descriptions-in-the-afternoon-1876.php 
 
Recommended Video
70000 Capacity and a Solar Roof. Work is due to restart on the New Mestalla stadium with work scheduled to be finished by 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bpnmFVBEI 

The Bonus Ball

Friday May 20, 2022

Friday May 20, 2022

Welcome to the final episode of the first series of the Valencia Property Podcast but don't worry we are not going away, we are just going to a new schedule. So today we are going to look back at what we have done so far on the podcast tell you where to find those episodes, look at what the podcast has done for us as a company and look at the properties we have sold this year, in terms of prices, availability, nationalities buying and a whole lot more. We are also looking at how we have worked to find that special property for our clients and how the bonus ball is often the one that wins the prize. What is the bonus ball and why does the bonus ball often get chosen. We will look at issues in the market at the moment and also we have a bumper crop of questions from listeners for you to enjoy me trying to answer.
 
Our recommendations for this week are as follows:
Firstly our recommended video of Richard Ayoade and Sara Pascoe getting hammered in Valencia . The scene in La Bella de Cadiz starts around 1.50 in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3svwwVMNHQ 
 
Our recommended articles this week are the following
Spanish schools https://www.languageinternational.com/spanish-schools-valencia-23649
112 Reasons to Move to Valencia https://valencia-property.com/new/2017/06/10/112-reasons-to-move-to-valencia-the-best-lifestyle-design-for-you/ 
How to choose your lawyer. https://valencia-property.com/new/2019/11/18/choosing-a-lawyer-for-your-valencia-property-purchase/
 
And our recommended property... so many to choose this week. I think our listings have been excellent this week but just for something a bit different I'll go for the villa with an inside outside pool in Puig. Take a look at the link in the show notes. https://valencia-property.com/new/Puig I could have gone for the "Better Than Grimsby" villa or the Just Outside Requena with 161 Neighbours Townhouse or any number of others but you will see when you get to the homepage there are plenty of live candidates for txhis week's listing 
 
As for our recommended podcast well you should listen to all of our episodes which you can find on our podbean page https://valenciaproperty.podbean.com/ 
 
But of those mentioned, God Bless America is the second one, Lawyers is edpisode ten, The Paradox of Choice is number nine, our story is number six, visas is number five, and the infamous Brexit episode is number four. The most popular episode is the one about timelines and that's right back at the start episode one. They are all worth a listen in my humble opinion and the questions you have might well be answered in one of them. Make sure to listen to them all and then pop over your questions to us in the form of a voice note or written and we will get back to you next month. 
 
Remember you can contact us on information@valencia-property.com or whatsapp on 0034 657994311 for your voice notes. 
 
 

Friday May 13, 2022


Welcome to the 19th and penultimate episode of our first series of Valencia Property podcasts. The last one next week will not be the last of course, it will just be the last of the weekly series before we go monthly. In the monthly series we are looking to go deeper into some subjects with more news, client questions and interviews as well as more interviews, round table discussions, lifestyle features and more. 
 
Today though we are talking about some of the things that we love and hate about living in Valencia and Spain and also having an interview with Nicola about what attracted her to Valencia and the process she had to take from buying here to the point when she and her husband were able to come and live here. 
 
As usual we finish off the podcast with our recommendations for the week. 
 
Recommended Video Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PgphItWBNk&list=PL6426F3CBAC1EC607 All about things you need to be thinking about when buying property in Spain. 
Also this is interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL8XPZp4-5c 
 
Recommended Articles
112 Reasons to move to Valencia 
https://valencia-property.com/new/2017/06/10/112-reasons-to-move-to-valencia-the-best-lifestyle-design-for-you
We asked here why people move to Valencia
https://valencia-property.com/new/2019/11/04/why-do-people-move-to-valencia/
We even wrote tongue in cheek about the 17 worst things about living in Spain 
https://valencia-property.com/new/2014/04/20/the-17-worst-things-about-living-in-spain/ 
All our articles mentioning Brexit can be found here https://valencia-property.com/new/?s=Brexit 
And all about Trump here https://valencia-property.com/new/?s=Trump
And those little things that drive us up the wall here. https://valencia-property.com/new/2021/06/04/things-that-drive-us-up-the-wall-working-in-valencia-property/
 
 
Recommended Property
This week we have a doozy down in Gandia area which is a small hotel for 435k with 11 bedrooms. Could easily be somewhere to develop a thriving business aimed at people looking to get away from it all in a small village near the coast. Take a look at it in our listings on the home page. https://www.valencia-property.com/gandia/please-ring-for-service-1854.php 
 

Friday May 06, 2022

Welcome to the 18th episode of the Valencia Property podcast. I almost didn't get this one out this week due to... well life... you can find out why in the podcast
Today as usual we will start with our listener questions that have been sent in before moving onto our subject for today which is living in Valencia and exploring Spain.
Recommended Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAsG6_JgAI An hour of drone footage from Spain over calming music. If you need some relaxation here it is whilst enjoying images and music. 
 
Recommended Articles
Weird and wonderful festivals https://www.spain-holiday.com/Spain/articles/weird-and-wonderful-events-in-spain 
All about new builds and new projects in Valencia https://valencia-property.com/new/2019/10/08/iconic-buildings-in-valencia-and-future-plans/ 
 
Recommended Property
Today's history lesson talks about the development of the area of En Corts and it's all to do with this large apartment there https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-city/todays-history-lesson-1849.php Our webpages
Listings page here www.valencia-property.com
Blog here www.valencia-property.com/new
 
 

Friday Apr 29, 2022

Welcome to the 17th episode of the Valencia Property podcast in which we will look into how to find out more about living in Spain.
 
Today's podcast has our usual listener questions, some news from Valencia and in the main part we talk about how you can find out more about living in Spain if you don't speak Spanish. We talk about which podcasts to follow to give you more information, which Youtube channels, blogs, social media accounts and even some newspapers. 
 
Recommended Videos
Video Channels today
https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeinSpain/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/Turisvalencia/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/ANTOANETTA/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/Keefcooks
https://www.youtube.com/c/LisaSadleir/videos
 
Recommended Articles
https://valencia-property.com/new/2020/01/12/our-new-valencia-property-website-and-services/ In this guide to our services we detail our rental service to avoid the problems foreigners find on trying to rent
https://valencia-property.com/new/2021/06/22/the-first-step-to-buying-property-in-valencia/ Our first step post is where you get to tell us exactly what you are looking for. 
https://valencia-property.com/new/2018/08/27/tips-for-eating-out-in-valencia/ Tips for eating out in Valencia
 
Recommended Blogs
http://www.valencia-property.com/new
http://www.anythingbutpaella.com/
http://www.piccavey.com/
https://valenciareport.com/
www.247Valencia.com
https://www.thelocal.es/
https://valencialife.es/
https://english.elpais.com/
https://www.spainenglish.com/
and I won't leave a link for the Olive Press and the owner is a c....
 
Recommended Podcast
https://valenciaproperty.podbean.com/e/ep13/ All about orientation days 
 
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/when-in-spain-paul-burge-1dwix8jZy9B/ When in Spain
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spanish-football-podcast/id687671367 The Spanish Football Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/laligaloca/id1281964241 La Liga Loca
https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/spain-to-go/id1529486596 Spain to Go
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/el-tel-jons-la-liga-weekly/id1450322092 La Liga Weekly
 
 

Currency Transfers

Friday Apr 22, 2022

Friday Apr 22, 2022

In the latest episode of the VP podcast we are talking about money, your money, and how to make the most of it. Lots of our clients are sending money from countries which don't have the Euro and lots of them are getting ripped off mercilessly because they just don't suspect that the banks may not have their best interests at heart. So today we will be looking at the best way to send your money to Spain to your own bank account which you will need once here and we will be chatting with Toni Wilson from Currencies Direct about their service and how they can help to save you money.
We have our selection of listener questions for you too and as usual we have our recommended articles and videos for which you can find the links below.
Recommended Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-xL5APk0iw 
All about our currency partner when Pablo was the person interviewed about their services. Things haven't changed since as you can hear in the interview with Toni. 
 
Recommended Article
In this article we talk about making the most of your money by using Currency Transfer companies and more https://valencia-property.com/new/2019/08/10/tips-for-getting-the-most-valencia-property-for-your-money/. The direct link to Currencies Direct is as follows, get your quote and check out their terms and conditions https://valencia-property.com/new/CD21 
 
Recommended Property
A neat modernisation near the beach and port. https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-beach-area/nice-apartment-near-the-port-and-beach-1840.php Nice location and lots of good points. 100m2 with three bedrooms modernised for under 200k looks like a good deal in Valencia 

Friday Apr 15, 2022


Welcome to the 15th episode of the Valencia Property podcast. In today's episode we look at why Valencia is so different to Alicante (And to a lesser extent the differences between Valencia and Madrid and Barcelona) we answer some more of your questions and we start our meet the team series. 
As usual we finish off with our recommendations and you can see the links we talk about below in the show notes. 
 
Recommended Video
Valencia your new home. Our intro video on the website just gives you a little taste of what awaits you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSD7RncKelU If you haven't subscribed to our video channel then feel free to do so. Lots of podcasts at the moment but more videos coming soon
 
Recommended Article
https://valencia-property.com/new/2020/01/12/our-new-valencia-property-website-and-services/ All about our rental service and more
https://valencia-property.com/new/2019/11/13/why-valencia-is-not-alicante/ Why Valencia is not Alicante 
https://valencia-property.com/new/2017/06/10/112-reasons-to-move-to-valencia-the-best-lifestyle-design-for-you/ 112 Reasons to move to Valencia (Although I do say 122 in the podcast)
 
Recommended Property
I love this one. Went to see it last week and it's one of those you can easily imagine yourself living in. Can be combined with a garage purchase or a low priced rental property for Golden Visa types. 
https://www.valencia-property.com/la-eliana/tricky-villa-in-la-eliana-1842.php 
 
Our socials 
www.twitter.com/grahunt
www.facebook.com/ValenciaProperty
www.instagram.com/grahunt
 

Friday Apr 08, 2022

Welcome to the latest episode of the Valencia Property podcast. Today on number 14 we will be looking at mortgages on your Valencia Property and why more and more people are getting them. But before we get into that we have as usual a few questions and a bit of news from the Valencia Property market. 
The main part of the episode today talks about mortgages and includes an interview with Kevin Monger co-founder of Mortgage Direct who work here in Valencia. You can contact Mortgage Direct here. 
 
Recommended Video
 
There are lots of things I disagree with in this video but it's always good to take a look at what others are saying (Even when they are wrong or i believe they are wrong) Take a look at Ronin's video which has a few factual inaccuracies but is a decent overview about why you might want to retire to Valencia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8524CfksFI 
 
Recommended Article
Mortgages. The full process of getting a Spanish mortgage
https://valencia-property.com/new/2021/04/25/the-full-process-of-getting-a-mortgage-in-spain/
Why you need a bank account in Spain. Also talks about ghost listings here
https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/04/04/why-you-need-to-open-a-spanish-bank-account/
 
Recommended Property
https://www.valencia-property.com/chiva/the-view-from-the-balcony-villa-1835.php
Just like in our article this week we are going to recommend the Golden Visa property on El Bosque estate. Worth 795k of anyone's money with gorgeous open views and an excellent pool but would you dive into it from the balcony. That's what we look into on the description of this place. 

Orientation Days

Friday Apr 01, 2022

Friday Apr 01, 2022

The 13th episode of the Valencia Property podcast is here and it's a shorter one this week as there are no interviews. All pure content goodness. This week we talk about Orientation Days, what they are and what they involve. Have a listen and check out the links we talk about in the podcast below.
Check out our homepage on www.valencia-property.com and the blog at www.valencia-property.com/new 
Recommended Video/podcast:
 
Fancy taking a look at Valencia in 4k video? Take a look at the linked video. Nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmsFT_OdDlU 
The podcast for you here with all about using a buyers' agent
https://valenciaproperty.podbean.com/e/ep12/
 
Recommended Articles:
 
Our latest article about changes possibly coming to the golden visa https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/03/28/get-your-golden-visa-quickly-just-in-case/ It might be useful to get it done now just in case
All about orientation days you can find here https://valencia-property.com/new/2018/03/02/how-we-organise-your-orientation-day-in-valencia/ 
 
Recommended Property:
 
Small but perfectly formed, well located, and what do we say about location, this penthouse apartment in central Valencia ticks a hell of a lot of boxes https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-city/fantastic-investment-opportunity-1833.php 

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