Welcome to our World in Gouves Crete

Welcome to finding a property in Gouves - When buying a property abroad it is essential to seek professional help both with a real estate company that is registered and a practicing lawyer to check all the paperwork for the transaction is correct. Architects and engineers can assist with planning a new home from a building plot with a architects build and design contract. There are many properties for renovation, which are ideal to renovate with a little imagination you can turn a building into a dream holiday home.

Investing in a dream home

Investing in any new villa requires the assistance of a lawyer. Now the market for new villas as becoming more frequent with small-scale developments of 6 villa to 20 villa complexes and upwards. These villa developments are on offer throughout Greece. Many of these developments lack a basic facility for a holiday home, which is a garage area, that a holiday car can be safety locked away when not in use an area of off road parking is usually designed into the scheme. So when planning to purchase a holiday home from a developer an additional expense may come from building a garage area within the villa grounds for converting the caring space into a garage.

These development can come in the form of terraced Marionettes offering small 80 to  90 m2 buildings with 2 bedrooms although theses are reality small and compact these types are ideal for a holiday home additional swimming pools can be added. The garden areas are usually quite small if within a village plan gardens outside the village plan can be larger. The tendency for these properties is to have a flat roof had can be used as an extra room on top of the building a pleasant oasis of a roof garden can be easily created. Under investigation form, the engineers that built the project a hot tub Jacuzzi could be installed.

Larger holiday and retirement scheme in Greece with mixed facilities, are coming into the market these schemes have a mixed residential types from detached villas with swimming pools, terraced villas, marionettes, and apartments. It is not uncommon today to have a communal swimming pool shared may the residents. Children's play areas offer additional attraction.

These mixed residential scheme offer the ideal clubshare properties, that range from 1, 2  apartments, 3 bedroom semi detached villas to 4 bedroom villas.

The last main category is new detached villas for the up market price bracket. Developers are  rapidly accommodation the influx of the individuals tastes for the luxury villa market.

Villas can come in  all forms from 2 to 6 bedrooms with private gardens and swimming pools. These type types of properties are referred to as turnkey meaning that you are able to walk straight in and live.

Any new villa has a guarantee issued from the builder that under a contract if the building fails in any way then the builder is responsible to make the repairs to reinstate the building to the original specifications. This can be part of the purchasing contract that must be added to the folder of the property that can in the event that a mortgage is taken out then the lender has a guarantee that the building in the event that a problem arises has the means to take action against the builder to reinstate the property. These guarantees usually covers all the aspects to the buildings structure, roof, foundations, theses guarantee do not cover accidental accidents within the home this is covered by a household insurance cover.

When purchasing a  villa it is advisable to take out an independent structural and building survey by another engineer or architect to establish that the building has the correct structural requirements under the law. This report shall determine if any issues or a snagging list can be produced to complete the purchase. In the event that a snagging list is produced by a indents observer then under the purchasing agreement this list must be completed before the final transaction is completed this can form part of the pre-contract that should be completed before the main contract to purchase is performed. An individual snagging list should be complied by the purchaser for your total satisfaction. In the event that these lists are not completed then monies should be retained.

When a property have been built outside or inside the village plan it is well to note that under the planning laws a building can be built around an existing property. Therefore, if you have purchased a property with a sea view it is well to visit the local town hall to clarify whether any applications have been submitted or could be submitted to build another property close by. Another area is if the local Municipality have plans to build or extend any roads close or though the property in the future.

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