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October 5, 2006

Buying offplan in Spain: How do you get background information on a developer or check on your off plan purchase?

The internet is now making it possible for people who have bought off plan in Spain to get together and meet online and share their experiences as well as research the development they are interested in buying/or have bought in.

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September 21, 2006

Real Estate Software Spain (New Product Launch)

Hello and welcome. My name is Ben Johnson creator of the Property Guide Spain. This is a completely new and unique piece of real estate software Spain that has been designed to help agents sell property from their websites.

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September 12, 2006

More Property Problems: Residency and Capital Gains Tax

I recently received this email regarding residence and capital gains tax on selling a property in Menorca.

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July 27, 2006

Writing Service Offered by Michel Cruz who set up Manifesto Design

Freelancewriter4u This is new service offered by Michel Cruz who set up Manifesto.The ability to write about a wide variety of topics and to cater for different tastes in style and presentation reflects Michel’s versatility as a writer. As a result he has been published in a great many different magazines, brochures and websites in Spain, Portugal, the UK, US and Holland. Click here to find out more about Michels services.

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July 9, 2006

Now that's a FIRE!

We packed the bags threw the dogs into the back of the car and considered hauling aXX when we saw the flames a'comin. Needless to say our worry was miss founded as the wind was blowing the wrong way and our buildings are made of concrete so pretty fire resistant.

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June 22, 2006

Building a Villa on Flamingos Golf (1)

Filip Vercauteren | Fincalena

Since the 23 of June 2005, Fincalena has been doing the building coordination for this rather exceptional villa and on this blog we would like to comment about the project, i.e. all the steps involved in building a villa in Spain, the things you have to look out for, a general guide for prices etc. The goal is to give the interested reader a good view on the challenges that one has to face when he decides to build a house in Spain.

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June 14, 2006

New Marbella properties section on the Bright website

A new database for properties has been added to the Bright website based on a great new CRM created by Makalumedia. The database includes a pdf function that allows browsers to make pdf window cards of property for easy storage and printing. There is also a star rating function that gives our assessment of the property according to the following criteria.

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May 27, 2006

An example of how not to sell property services over the internet

I found this write up on the internet on a real estate agents site, and seeing that this came from a company with a strong high street brand I was quite suprised at how this exceedinlgy badly edited text made it online. Anyway I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The original text can be found on the website www.blueskyhomes-sl.com on the "about us" page.

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May 22, 2006

Newly updated Articles page

Pending the launch of the Spanish Property Guide (a new online tool that will integrate into existing websites that promote property in Spain: developed by Bright and Makalumedia) the Articles section has been updated with a the full range of new, up to date reports that will be included in the final IT package. To check out these and other reports click here.

Launch date for the Spanish Property Guide will be July 2006 and will include a much improved table of contents presentation to allow browsers to quickly navigate to the information that they need.

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March 16, 2006

Our trip to Extremadura

Los Flamencos

We took a short holiday to part of Spain that is off the beaten track. Extremadura literally translated means Extremely Hard, and with 50 degree celcius temperatures in Summer and near freezing conditions in winter its aptly named.

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November 22, 2005

Morocco and Essouaria

Ben Johnson / Bright

Some photos of our trip to Morocco last year. I´ll be adding comments soon.

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