so is it too late to come to valencia
prices are going up the demand for
buying an apartment and renting an
apartment in spain has risen to 171
but i mean what price would you pay to
have this quality of life
and we're in rustapha one of the most
desired barrios in valencia there's so
many expats living here even we lived
here for one year and they're more and
more coming so
a lot of things changed starting with
prices ways to find your home it is very
hard to rent in valencia in spain in
general but valencia is one of the
places that it has not been easy for
anybody they're just a few people here
and there
you can hear that they had just luck
with finding a place easy just renting
it because you need a spanish contract
you need
all the documents that they want to make
sure that you're going to be staying
there renting paying your rent usually
these apartments they have insurance so
they have to make sure they're covered
just another sunday here in rusofa
we rented for so long in so many
different places but when we stayed here
in rusafa it was a long long term rental
and we were paying about
8.75 for three bedroom apartment
about 85 square meters and
right now in this area
you can find for
like 200 euro more 200 to 250 euro more
the same the same size pretty much the
same quality the problem is that
even if you find an apartment at a good
price there's such shortage there's so
much demand and so
so little apartments that you can't
really find a
something really good
on a really at a really good price so
that's the problem
and this
this beautiful chapel there the duomo on
top used to be the view from my office
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each barrio has its own character and of
course different prices but like if you
want to live here
in these beautiful buildings
you have to prepare yourself that
even though it's beautiful on the
outside a lot of the buildings are old
so they lack amenities and
you can have some you know very basic
floors
not a very good isolation
some noise some
you know
some
not as pleasant things happening
but and also the furniture it's really
basic every apartment that we rented
only a couple of them
were a little bit better everything it's
like here and below
not that there's anything wrong with
ikea i like ikea but it's it's just like
super super basic there is a law here in
spain
if you see over there
they protect the facade of the building
they can do any kind of changes in the
lobby in the apartments
reconstruction remodeling
but the outside
needs to remain as it is
because it's of historic value or just
keeps the
the city look a certain way no way
oh my god this this almost took my head
off
the bus
i didn't i didn't i didn't see it it
came so fast so is it too late to come
to valencia prices are going up things
are getting harder and harder everywhere
because of the recession and inflation
in certain places
and valencia is no exception spain in
general but there's still so many people
coming here and i don't blame anyone we
all want to live a better life at a
better weather
better food and just an ease of living
we all strive for that so
there's a price to pay
and price going up but i mean what price
would you pay to have this quality of
life
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i am i'm still searching for this life
work balance
here it's mostly life
then work it's good to remind yourself
like why you're doing certain sacrifices
why you're picking a place to move and
yeah and what price you're ready to pay
for that because everything has a price
valencia is so much in demand not just
tourists
but people intensively wanting to move
here people from the uk
leaving a lot of americans recently i've
been getting a lot of messages from
people asking me
about my experience and
how to move here so
valencia is really in demand
i
i don't know when it's the right time i
don't know if it's too late but if you
think about it
whatever you are in the states or in
some other country
things change there too things change
every day i know from friends of ours
that prices change there too rent prices
are changing as well so even if here
certain things are becoming a little
more expensive
so is everywhere else i can't give you
exact formula
on how to rent an apartment or how to
buy an apartment every case is different
but one thing i can tell you you have to
just
gather
all the nerves that you have
and all the patients that you can
develop
before you start the process you're
going to see some
some real estate agents that are
literally not doing their job
from my experience i have some good ones
but a lot of them
they're just work ethic it's not there
and i don't know
if you're working on commission
how are you not
going after a client offering them
places to stay when you know
we're looking for an apartment i was
looking i was finding the places and i
was sending them to my agent to check if
they're available for me which i find
it's pretty ridiculous yeah i just
expect a little more when you especially
when you're in a different country and
this agent is there to help you
supposedly
they should be doing a little bit more
i don't know let me know if you agree
but otherwise why hire an agent right
there are places photocast it's more for
private sellers or private
you know landlords that are giving their
apartments for rent so if you speak the
language maybe that's a better option
because also they won't ask you
for
like a huge deposit for many many months
ahead
um the law here it's a one to two months
maximum deposit but when you're a
foreigner again they don't have this
guarantee so they want to make sure
you're going to be paying your rent so
they will ask you for six to 12 months
deposit and i know it hurts it's it's
not great but the apartment has an
insurance and unless you can show them a
working contract for a spanish company
they're not going to accept anything
even if you show them your fat bank
account even if you flush anything
you know to prove that you have the
means to pay that it's still it's still
not going to be enough so prepare
yourself
i like rusafa but i think
i like coming here more than
living here
if that makes sense because i kind of
got a lot from
the noise and people the over but i like
that it's very diverse
it keeps changing all the little places
they keep changing they're more creative
and more advanced in their experimental
stages
of you know for restaurants for
boutiques so i really like that and i
like coming here and discovering these
little places then living here
there's construction
there's construction there there is one
at the end of the street and that's rare
because everything is already built and
it's so populated and it's like just
it's already way up but these are new
buildings it looks new and modern
look at the outside windows i like
actually this
it changes the flavor of the
neighborhood i don't think it's ruining
it because
i like seeing all the new buildings
combined let's walk closer
i think these buildings might even have
a pool there
which is also a unicorn here in valencia
i see an open window
no it can't be rented already no
and i've heard they're changing the law
for squatters everybody's so scared
about that i've been reading it on the
forums on facebook groups it's really
not that bad that this thing happens in
many places it's not just here
but they're changing the law so some new
things happening the law for tourism and
the law for that also they already
changed some of the rules about
renting out your apartment for bmb or
for
monthly for long-term lease
it's not as easy anymore and i believe
you can only rent
if you're living on the first floor
but also your neighbors should also have
a license so it's kind of like a vicious
circle if they have it you can have it
but if you don't have it they can't have
it
so yeah it's not it's not very easy but
maybe it's a good thing
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and
the facebook groups are great for for
some information there are a lot of
people that are
very active there
and you can
learn a lot but don't forget this is
everyone everyone has a different
experience
you can hear some good information but
make sure you take it with a grain of
salt and just
measure things out read some other blogs
watch some other youtube videos just to
kind of
balance the information don't just like
read and grab the first thing you read
at the
facebook groups
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