The 10 steps to choosing the perfect house
Arriving at your perfect home is the result of a proper search among the available properties. However, it is essential to know that success does not depend on searching for many months and visiting an infinite number of properties until you find the right property. penthouse Valencia We need to be able to reduce the number of people in our dreams, but there are ways to reduce through a very well-defined strategy. From our luxury real estate Valencia here are the ten steps to your ideal home.
The perfect strategy for finding your dream home
It consists of only ten steps, but each one needs to be given due attention. Let's get started!
Step # 1 - Delimit the area
The house or penthouse in Valencia can be remodelled, but the area is immovable. For this reason, the first recommendation that we make from our Valencia real estate agency is that you delimit the area where you want to move. The criteria you will use for this purpose will have a lot to do with your lifestyle.
If you have your own company, you may be interested in buying a Valencia flat in a location close to your premises, whereas if you have your office at home, you will have more scope to choose less urban areas.
If you have children, you will probably find it more than convenient to settle near their school or place of study. However, if you are taking your first steps after your children have become independent, then priorities will revolve around your specific preferences and needs.
Step # 2 - Define your needs
Now it's time to think about the minimum you need in your new Valencia penthouse. This means choosing the number of bedrooms; the total square metres; whether you need a terrace, patio or garden; whether one bathroom is enough or whether you need one or two more; whether you need to live on a ground, middle or top floor; and in the case of a house, whether you allow it to have stairs or whether you need it to be on a single floor.
Write down all these requirements in a notebook that you will use exclusively for your Valencia flat search, as you will need to have them always at hand when the time comes to start looking for the ideal Valencia penthouse.
Step # 3 - Decide the budget
Now that you know where you will live, you can calculate the monthly transport budget, as well as an estimate of the community fees, which will help you define your maximum budget for the purchase of your new home.
Within this stage it is also the turn of the mortgage choice, which can be fixed or variable, while you could also focus on getting a green mortgage. The choice is not as simple as it seems, so count on your Valencia real estate agent to advise you in a personalised way.
Step # 4 - Begin your search
Now that you know what you're looking for and how much money you're going to spend on your new Valencia penthouse, it's time to start looking for specific properties. Taking into account the fact that Valencia flat owners advertise their properties at prices ranging from five to twenty percent more than the price they are willing to sell for, it is wise to look for properties that are advertised at prices higher than your limit.
In our Valencia real estate agency we have a wide portfolio of properties of various sizes and distributions, located in different neighbourhoods of Valencia.
We can offer you tours We provide you with the highest quality virtual properties so that you have the possibility to filter the properties very effectively before requesting a face-to-face viewing. Our mission is to save you time and turn the arduous task of buying a home into a rewarding and enjoyable experience.
Step # 5 - Organise your visits
Make a list of the properties you want to visit. Make sure you opt for those that meet all the requirements, in order to avoid wasting time. At the most, from our luxury real estate Valencia we recommend you to visit five flats Valencia per day, as more than this amount dulls the mind and the advantages of the properties visited at the beginning of the day are blurred.
Organise an itinerary that allows you to see all five houses within a small area. This way you will avoid travelling long distances on the same day, only to return to the same place later in the week.
Step # 6 - Debug the options
There is a step before making the final decision, which is not to stay with only one property among the dozens that you have visited, nor with more than five. Take as much time as you need to choose these finalist properties, always bearing in mind that there may be other buyers who may be interested in the same Valencia flats at the same time as you. Consult with your family or, if you are moving alone, ask your friends for their opinions.
Step # 7 - Visit the finalist properties once more
Once you know which group of five Valencia flats your future home is in, visit each one at least once more. Pay attention to details you may have missed before, such as the lighting, the neighbourhood, the shops in the area, the condition of the property, whether it has been recently refurbished and what repairs it will need to make it your ideal home.
This is the time to ask the owner all the questions you need to go home without any doubts about the place you intend to turn into your personal space.
It is very important that you visit the property during the day, as you will really see how bright it is at times when artificial light should not be used.
Step # 8 - Walk the area at different times of the day
It is possible that, at this point, you only have two or three Valencia flats to choose from. To avoid any surprises, from our Valencia real estate agency we recommend you to walk around the area, approximately ten blocks around, at different times of the day, especially when you and your family will have to travel along the street to get to your place of work or studies.
Pay attention to movement, safety, traffic, lighting at night and anything else that is important for your comfort and peace of mind.
Step # 9 - Make your offer
Making an offer is not easy. If we make it too low, we run the risk that the owner of the penthouse Valencia gets angry and then doesn't even want to hear from us. He would not be the first owner to refuse to sell to a specific buyer, which can happen when he feels offended that we have not valued his property.
However, if we bid too high, we may end up paying several thousand euros more than we would have paid if we had made a lower bid.
How to solve this dilemma?
There are two ways. The first is to find out the reference value according to the cadastral nominative, which will allow us to know if the owner is selling at a lower or higher price than what the land registry says it is worth.
This information is useful in two ways. On the one hand, it situates us in the reality of the property so that we can make an offer within the parameters of common sense. On the other hand, it enables us to challenge the value of the ITP (Transfer Tax) that we have paid if we bought the property at a lower price than the one assigned by the land registry. It is a long process and requires us to go to court, and it must be done indirectly and by means of proof that the taxpayer has been harmed by the difference in value, but we can receive an interesting refund for having overpaid the tax.
The second way is to count on the advice of our Valencia real estate agency, because we know each owner like the back of our hand, which allows us to tell you what is the limit that should not be passed in order to continue negotiating with the seller.
Step # 10 - Final preparations towards the signing of the deed
Depending on the case, the purchase of a penthouse in Valencia may have tax benefits. It is therefore essential that you go to the signing of the purchase of your new home having been properly informed about it. Otherwise, you may pay too much just because you are not aware of the benefits that are available.
Consult with our Valencia real estate agency about the details of the sale of your property.
There are many details that come with the purchase and sale of a property. So that you can carry out this operation with peace of mind, we have our team of real estate and tax advisors at your disposal. In this way, we assure you that you will not pay one euro more than what is due and that the whole operation will be carried out successfully. Contact us!