The arithmetic we finally did before choosing a flat near Denia
Third year of looking, and this spring we finally did the boring arithmetic instead of the romantic one.
We want a two bedroom flat near Denia, and the question that kept us awake was not the price but the eight months a year the place would stand empty. So we asked four owners we met and wrote it down: community charges, IBI, water standing charge, electricity minimum, insurance, and someone to open the windows once a month.
It came out predictable, and that was the relief. Every line was something we already knew, it was simply a total we had never written down. After that the search felt different, and I went back through https://alegria-realestate.com/ with a much shorter list of what we could actually carry.
Has anyone here kept a place in the south while living in the north for most of the year? What did you add to that list that we have not thought of?