Latest Listings, IKEA Alternatives and Building an Eco Home

Published: Mon, 02/24/25

Updated: Sat, 03/01/25

IKEA Alternatives

One of the most repeated questions we often get concerns where to find furniture that isn't IKEA. There are plenty of options from multinationals to local producers. So we wrote a blog about it and you can see it here.

You look online and you want to find your ideal place in Valencia (or even beyond) and you keep seeing the same thing in all the properties for sale; the Billy Bookcase, the Hemnes Bed, the Ektorp Sofa (Apparently now RIP but I'm sure I saw one there recently), the usual IKEA decoration touches and one of those obligatory tea candle holders. Yes we are all being Hygged, we are all being Abba'd we are all turning into Swedes while eating meatballs and pork knuckle. But it doesn't have to be this way. READ ON HERE.

Special Edition of the VP Podcast

We also promised you an extra podcast this month an it was released this morning. It's an interview with John Wolfendale from Eco Vida Homes and talks about all aspects of making sure your new build home is more ecologically sound and how you can make a currently existing property more energy efficient. Have a listen here.

Latest Listings

We promised you more listings and we are putting them together but... we had a website issue over the weekend (Amazingly stressful by the way when your 25 year old website disappears for half a day or so) Therefore, we now have a backlog of properties waiting to go on the site. What we can do though is send you some private listings, latest listings and some links to some of our lesser spotted properties.

We look forward to hearing from you. Just click through to the articles and listings below and get in touch to arrange your visits.

Classic Carmen Apartment 228k

Come and enjoy this historic home in the center of Valencia: El Carmen. Located in a lovely plaza famous for it's old Olive tree that grows right in the middle.

Private Listing 499K

We're not allowed to publish this but can send details to clients apparently so here it is. Large apartment with community pool in Central Valencia.

Reduced Price 2x1 Villa 790K

Everybody loves a deal, don’t they? Maybe a limited time discount on a full-size snooker table (“I live in an 80 square meter apartment, BUT ITS 30% OFF!!”), or the old classic 2X1 offer which is (kind of) what we’re bringing you today with this excellent turn-key property. But first, a bit about the area.

The Terrace You Deserve in Rafaelbunyol 295k

You want terraces? We’ve got terraces. Big ones. Sun-soaked ones. The kind of terrace that’s attached to the perfect sun-filled Blank-Canvas Room—or what I like to call the Inspiration Room—where you can spend your mornings chiselling away at the outline of your next novel, your afternoons strumming a few chords on that guitar you finally decided to pick up, and your evenings with a glass, or four, of Valencian Bobal wine in hand, indulging in the fantasy that you’re living in a Pedro Almodóvar film.

Have it All in the Cabanyal 750k

It is not that long ago that if you told the average Valencian that you lived in Cabanyal, they would raise their eyebrows and mutter something like, gitanos, drogas. In other words, are you sure you want to live there?

If you mention this now, a few people will still have this association, but the majority will say: caro! (expensive).

Whole House in Nazaret, Valencia for 430k

Nazaret is/was the scruffy little brother of the Cabanyal in Valencia. The "real" port area looked down on and ignored by generations of Valencians and equally ignored by authorities for years giving it a feel of abandonment. But things have changed and are still changing.

Modern Style in Naquera 330K

Some people say that modernity is a curse, they are wrong.
Some people say that living with large windows in Spain is a mistake. They are wrong.
Some people say sharing facilities isn't ideal. They are totally wrong.

A Mad Story You Need to Read About a Bank and a Signing

Last week we had a sale in Valencia and we spent five hours sorting out the final signing in the notary because banks are useless. Or rather in this case one particular bank is useless and in this post we are going to tell you what happened and why it's important to choose the right bank and of course why that bank should never be ING Direct!

Now we have previously had problems with ING Direct. What difficulties? Difficulties with getting bank drafts which have to be emitted from Madrid then posted, yes posted, to Valencia for pick up in the branch, meaning completion had to be delayed because they didn't arrive (It's their internal postal system but it still doesn't work). Last week though they took incompetence to an absolutely new level. Last week it was performance art incompetence.

Read All About it Here

Graham Hunt

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