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Google is now requesting that its customers try out its latest incarnation of its search engine, with the codename of Google Caffiene. Having tried this out our rankings don´t seem to have been massively affected for our chosen keyphrases, so its difficult to spot any obvious change. Global Edge, the property portal geared towards online property sales cited a number of possible factors that should be taken into consideration, based on empirical evidence from the US. Firstly, real time news ... Read Full Post

I thought I would share a snapshot of the level of activity within the overseas property market with you. August proved to be an interesting month for First Property Choice as a company, the biggest surprise was the volume of enquiries for property in La Zagaleta. Although we have good SERP for many of the associated keyphrases for this development it ended up being our second most searched real estate selection. Top of the tree for us was Calabria and again even though we have a strong prese... Read Full Post

The latest La Zagaleta property that has been added to our portfolio has some of the best sea views available within the estate. The rock of Gibraltar and the Atlas mountains in Morocco are clearly visible from the pool, garden area and master bedroom. In additon to high end real estate La Zagaleta also provides residents with specialist private shuttle to the airport and can look after every need an owner may have from banking, laundry services to baby sitting and secretarial services. For t... Read Full Post

Our lastest listing in La Zagaleta has some of the best qualities we have seen in any home anywhere in the world. 7 bedrooms and 7 bedrooms, complete with a fully equipped home cinema. Spread over nearly 1080m2 this villa has an internal courtyard and staff quarters. The kitchen has the absolute best qualities with the highest specification white goods available, utilised and positioned in a clever and useable fashion. The master suite and bathroom offers an real space and again is finished t... Read Full Post

This really is an amazing home, previously on the market for €11,000,000 this house has been reduced by €2,500,000. With 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms spread over nearly 13,000 Sq. Ft the standard of finish this property has is of the absolute highest quality. This La Zagaleta property has a unique garden area, as all the grounds are totally flat and have some of the most beautiful lawns we have seen. This actual size of this garden area is approximately 95,000 sq ft, giving you a spacious a... Read Full Post

We have added a really spacious 5 bedroom villa to our portfolio of La Zagaleta properties that is spread over an interior area of just under 1000m2. The kitchen is the highest specification and leads directly through to a huge dining area. The attention to detail and quality of construction is a credit to the developer. The absolute highest grade of marble has been used throughout in addition to underfloor heating. The property in situated on a 4,400m plot and although this isn´t small, it ... Read Full Post

The website claimed it had its largest ever number of visitors on August 10th and they have been operating for 9 years. The magnitude of the slump showed clearly in their interim figures with gross profits down by 8%. However now they feel that the worst is over, citing that this slump was the worst in a generation. The company has seen a slowly improving market through the summer and had good monthly growth in July, in fact it was their second most profitable month ever. The company commente... Read Full Post

Further to my last post another significantly reduced property has been added to our portfolio, with the vendor dropping his asking price from €329,000 to €199,000. Again, this complex is built by a publicly traded company and to a standard you would expect from a blue chip constructor. Moving in to the commercial sector CB Richard Ellis cited Spain at the top of the transaction league in Europe, with some seriously large commercial deals being carried off. There has been some commentary,... Read Full Post

I have written previously about the Los Arqueros Golf & Country Club on my REW blog. Set within the mountain ranges of Benahavis this Golf resort, with its course designed by Seve Ballesteros offers a great standard of property at an affordable price. A real bargain of an apartment has come onto the market within the development that offers great access to the club house with its range of sporting activities, in addition to a bar and restaurant. This Los Arqueros property is two bedroom t... Read Full Post

Luís Mateos, the developer of the Lagoa do Coelho resort is currently spending some time in prison with a fraud charge laying over his head. The company he is CEO of ,Grupo Nicolás Mateos has not layed one brick on this supposed high level development north of Natal. A group of angry investors who purchased in this development had combined forces and decided to inform the authourities about the lack of any visible progress and this subsequently led to the arrest and jailing of Mateos. There... Read Full Post