AS winter is closing in, temperature in Costa Blanca significantly drops from 18 degrees Celsius to about 16. This is still warm though so most of the British tourists who have been here all summer long troop back here during the holidays for another round of vacation. That’s why holiday homes here in Costa Blanca have already been reserved for winter. Costa Blanca is after all one of the remaining places in Europe to have an ideal Christmas vacation. The temperature is just right, not too cold. The residents are devout Catholics and one can hear Mass every dawn for nine days preceding Christmas. After mass, churchgoers are greeted outside with the hearty breakfast of cocoa or coffee and some pure Costa Blanca sweets and delicacies. During Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, spectacular fireworks light up the Costa Blanca coastline.
Because of the usual influx of British and Scandinavian tourists, many Costa Blanca residents have become entrepreneurial. Here in this harbor city, a state of the art hospital for the aged will rise up. In fact, it is not just a hospital for the aged; it is a retirement home as well. The retirement home will be housed near a beach resort, the Santa Pola Life Resort. Lots of clients are expected in this retirement home as it will cater to the whole Alicante area. It will be employing only the best geriatricians in Spain.
Given all these circumstances, it’s high time now to invest in a holiday home in Costa Blanca. It’s so easy to start. If you are a European, you don’t need to get a visa here in Spain. And since Spain is located in the Iberian Peninsula which is part of mainland Europe of course, you can also ride the train going to Madrid to get here. You can even bring your own car and there will be no Customs who will accost you because land borders in Spain that are shared with Portugal are unguarded. That is part of the Schengen agreement.
But before getting here, you must book your flight, your hotel room and your airport car rentals ahead of time. They tend to be filled especially during summer. But now that the housing industry has radically shifted to Europe thanks to the mortgage slump in the United States, many people are turning to this part of the Atlantic to invest in real estate. That includes Spain and obviously Costa Blanca is not an exception.
Car rental models include the Opel Astra, the Peugeot 407 and the Mercedes E270. Prices can be packaged at $500 for two days. Once you’ve rented a car, you can now scout properties in Costa Blanca along with your spouse, children, lawyer and a real estate agent. Make sure that the lawyer is adept with the realty laws in Spain. Spanish real estate policy dictates that you only have to pay two real estate taxes – the annual property income tax and the garbage collection tax which is remitted directly to the municipal government, in the case of Costa Blanca, Alicante.