Buying to renovate in Spain: When an older property becomes an opportunity. BUYING ON THE COSTA DEL SOL INS´T ALWAYS EXPENSIVE
- Antonia Delgado Garrucho
- 12 hours ago
- 3 min read
Spain continues to be one of the most attractive destinations for those looking to establish their residence, acquire a second home, or invest in property. However, the rising prices of homes in one of the best areas of Spain, such as the Costa del Sol (Málaga), leads many people to rule out purchasing in what has been considered one of the best places in the world to live, Málaga.
Delgado Garrucho Lawyers, with extensive experience in real estate projects, offers you the best options to achieve the house of your dreams on the Costa del Sol.
We provide comprehensive advice as we have the best tools for the creation and design of your future home.
We briefly explain what you should focus on to achieve your DREAM.
1. You should not only look at the current state of the property, but also at what it can become
One of the main values of a property to renovate is precisely the possibility of adapting the property to the needs of its new owner.
A home that you would never buy can become, with an investment of less than 50% of the actual cost, the house you dream of today.
With the help of an architect experienced in designing spaces that adapt to the needs of the owners, we can achieve:
· An excessively compartmentalized layout can be transformed into more open and bright spaces.
· Old installations can be replaced with more efficient systems.
· Existing architectural elements can be recovered and integrated into a contemporary design.
Additionally, renovating allows you to decide where to invest the budget and configure a home that truly responds to a specific way of living.
2. But buying to renovate does not simply mean buying cheaper
The acquisition price is only part of the operation.
Before buying a property that needs renovation, it is advisable to analyze its state of conservation, structure, installations, possible pathologies, layout, and energy efficiency, but also to study whether the modifications you intend to make are urbanistically and technically viable.
An apparently economical property may require significant work or be subject to certain administrative, urban planning, or even heritage limitations. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BUYING, AND FOR THAT, YOU HAVE OUR EXPERIENCE.
Therefore, before making a decision, CONTACT US.
To know what questions to ask before buying the property, follow our upcoming publications. We will present the latest project carried out with an acquisition and renovation cost of less than 70% of the value the property acquired after the legal and real estate advice.
When the preliminary analysis is favorable, a well-studied renovation allows you to discover possibilities that are not always evident during a first visit.
The house was in a state of evident abandonment, both inside and in its relationship with the outside. Inside, the spaces remained unfinished, with pending coverings, visible installations, and unresolved construction elements, exposing an architecture halted halfway through the process.
On the outside, the passage of time and lack of maintenance had erased any sense of care or continuity. Facades, junctions, and open spaces conveyed a deteriorated and neglected image. However, beneath this provisional state, a spatial structure with potential remained recognizable: a base on which to intervene, recover the logic of the house, and transform the unfinished into a habitable, coherent, and contemporary architecture.
In this same house, the previous state clearly conditioned the perception of the spaces. The limited entry of light, a layout poorly adapted to current needs, and the lack of finishing made the interior feel more closed and restricted than its actual surface allowed.
The intervention is proposed precisely from that existing potential: reorganizing the spaces to make them more fluid, enhancing the entry of natural light, and adapting the house to a contemporary way of life, while maintaining those elements that could add character to the whole. Thus, an initially unfinished and unattractive property could be transformed, through specific architectural decisions, into a much brighter, functional, and coherent home with its surroundings.
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