We are going to tell a simple but exciting story, about a couple who buy a house in Spain.

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Our couple, Frank and Diane, have dreamed aboutthis home for a long time.

They have talked about it, planned it and savedfor it. But they are worried.

After their main home in the UK this will bethe most expensive thing they ever buy and they intend to do it right.

We will follow Frank and Diane as they gothrough the processes of buying a home in Spain.

Along the way we will learn the differences betweenthe Spanish regions and environments, from the wet and wild coast of Galicia tothe deserts of Almanzora.

We will investigate the processes of Spanishproperty buying and show you how to buy safely.

We are basing Frank and Diane’s experiences onthe thousands of people that we at the AIPP, RICS and RDE have met and advisedover the past ten years.

Frank and Diane are not specific people, butthey have the same dreams and face the same challenges as the tens of thousandsof real people who would like to buy abroad.

We will follow them from their living roomsomewhere in the United Kingdom, to getting the keys and settling down in theirvilla on a Spanish seaside.

Although Frank and Diane are British, theycould just as easily be Lars and Lotte from Belgium, Max and Mia from Germanyor Shirley and Sheila from Australia.

The dangers are all the same when folks “leavetheir brains behind at the airport” and the rewards are the same when they doit right.

We hope you will download this guide and keepit handy. Feel free to print it off and pack it in your suitcase. If you have afriend thinking of buying in Spain, please send it on to them.

We know it is immensely rewarding to deeply savour another nation through immersion in their culture as facilitated by property ownership, and we hope that this guide helps you to make a wonderful – and safe – start on your journey.