The ongoing dispute between the bar and restaurant owners, the local council and the Valencian Regional government over who holds responsibility for maintaining the arenal promenade in Javea continues to draw headlines like a good 'ol British farce.

In the meantime, Javea does its own reputation no good.

Maybe instead of worrying about whose responsibilty the maintenance is, some-one should just get it done..what does it take for the bars and restaurant owners to get together and pay an electrician to tidy the boxes, the local council to get the rubbish cleared up and as for the Valencian government....leave em in Valencia. if they couldn't work out that LRAU or LUV as its now called....the land grab laws...were totally screwed up....what chance do you have with this! I did hear they proposed some kind of compulsory purchase of the land....they seem to have that one on the brain.

Anyway, after all that, Javea is still a great holiday destination, so come and enjoy!


For an apartment rental in javea try AMLASpain

        

Javea on the Costa Blanca is suffering from the same malaise that is prevelant in property markets across the globe. following the credit and housing slump in the USA, confidence in property markets that had been rising for years came down to earth with a thud.

Javea, nestled at the northern end of the Costa Blanca on the eastern coast of Spain, has long been a popular holiday and retirement resort for UK ex-patriates as well as many other European Nationalities. Its diversity between the Narrow streets of the old town and port and the more conventional holiday atmosphere of the arenal beach has always meant that Javea had a while appeal.

In recent years, development of Apartment Urbanisations between Javea port and the Arenal has created a new holiday village with row upon row of new apartment buildings set to cater for the increasing demand in property investment.

Herein lies the problem. With the sudden downturn in demand for property, javea has been left with an over abundance of new apartments in a market struggling to find buyers. many agents are see-ing buyers come and go without making a commitment to purchase as the majority sit on the fence waiting to see how far the market will fall.

As with most investment vehicles this can be a dangerous game to play. It is only necessary to look at the trading patterns of the individual investor on the stock market to discover that most individual investors waiting for a market to turn get left behind and miss out on the best opportunities.

The reason that institutional investors continue to buy in a falling market is that they buy on the basis of inherent value rather than a simple market trend. For the discerning investor, this should also ring true when considering a property investment.

If the underlying deal on a property purchase is of good solid value then it will buck the short term trend and provide above average returns in the medium to long term.

Whilst apartments in javea are currently in over supply, this should be seen as an opportunity rather than negative. Whilst the need to be discerning is more necessary than ever, those that look to find the value within the market will be tomorrows investment winners.

        

Javea is located on the Eastern Med coast of Spain's Costa Blanca. most brits fly into either Alicante or Valencia and then drive the hour or so up....or down, (depending on which airport you are coming from) the A7-E15 toll motorway to junction 62/63.

Javea or in Valencian Xabia is pronounced....as are all spanish words that begin with a J....as if it is an H.....the Valencian pronunciation is more of a Ch.
The old town sits in the shadow of Mont Go or Montgo as most people call it. its called that because of its remarkable resemblence to an elephant thats lying down. Its long ridge to the  sea even looks like an elongated trunk. it is this resemblence to an elephant that got the mountain its name which comes from  an elephant that was famous some years ago....with the name of Go.

Javea today is seperated into three distinct area although with ongoing development these are slowly merging into one. The old town of Javea sits a couple of kilometres from the coast under  the shadow of Montgo and is a myriad of small lanes and townhouses in the traditional Spanish style.

The Port area has been developed from its old fishing roots and now contains a bustle of shops and restaurants surrounding the marina  where fishing boats that once thrived, still operate. the area along the coast from the port has been developed with  apartment complexes and now joins the port to the man-made arenal beach where holiday makers  work on their tans by day and promenade  in the evenings taking sample of the many bars and restaurants that are dotted along the front.

To the south of the Arenal the town rises up the hill to Cap de La Nao with Villas aplenty amonst the pines that give the area a green-ness not seen in areas firther south of the province.

All in all Javea has many different things to offer and there is something for every-one from the walker to the sun-worshipper. 

        

As you probably have read, we like to keep you up-to-date with things in the Spanish Property market. 2007 was not a good year for a lot of agents and many have fallen by the wayside in the flat property sales market.

As we start 2008 there are signs for optimism as AMLA, The MLS dealing with Spanish property for sale has announced record visitors for the first two weeks of the year.

Costa Blanca Property and especially Moraira property and Javea property have shown double-digit increases in visitors.

The proff of the pudding though is whether these visitors or ‘browsers will turn into buyers. It was confidence in the global mortgage market that made purchasers wary in the second half of 2007. Many came to look but left without purchasing. With interest rates in both the USA and possibly UK on the decline there may now be confidence returning to investors looking to cash in on purchases at the perveived ‘bottom’ of the market cycle. 

        

The holiday industry in Spain provides the majority of income to the coastal areas of the Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol etc. A good chunk of this goes to private villa owners who rent their properties to holiday makers through the summer months

Spain Rentals are big business. So its no surprise that the Estate Agent Association AMLA is getting in on the act. The Spanish Property MLS is set to launch a sub domain for villa rentals Spain. The site differs from most because it has the ability for property Agents and Owners to market their holiday vill using video as well as the normal photo layout.

AMLA, who recently also launched their community & property forum and video sub-domains intends to market heavily to attract Costa Blanca villas owners and Costa del Sol Properties where video production facilities are available at low rates,    

        

AMLASpain, The Spanish Property MLS, has said that its goal for 2008 is to achieve authority status on google for Spanish Property. Having added in the last two months a Spanish Property Forum & Community forum, Video facilities for property marketing, a sub-domain for holiday & villa rentals in Spain AMLA believes it has put all the ‘cards in a row’ to achieve its aims.

‘In association with the Spanish language site AMLACasas  we hope to attract an ever-increasing share of the domestic market towards Multiple Listing. Future goals then include launching a property MLS in the UK for the UK domestic property market. We can undercut the advertisers like Rightmove by 75% and offer back-office software to boot. I think we will find customers.. 

        

Sitting in your armchair…cup of tea on the table next to you…warm fire, glowing in the hearth…dont you just love christmas shopping! Allneedsandwants takes away the stress of shopping…the barging , the nightmare of parking…and god forbid the crush of the sales.

The online shopping mall is I hope, here to stay and I have to cinfess I am not quite sure where all those people, who crush into the town centres in their SUVs wasting time, gas and their own patience, have been for the past…five years. 

You can search for pretty much anything, get an amazon discounter, delivery to your doorstep.

Like I said at the beginning…dont you just love the shopping season

        

It’s 2008 and the New Year holds many changes for a lot of people. Moving home is one of the biggest changes you can make in life….and one of the most stressful. Home loans in the latter part of 2007 were given out much more sparingly due to the credit crunch caused by the sub-prime collapse in the mortgage market. Property prices faltered in some states and there was a general feeling that the property market bubble may have burst.

Lots of people are putting off moving home and are turning to an equity loan to make improvements or add additions to their existing homes rather than poke a toe into the homes sales market.

Home equity loans can provide a simple way of coping with that ever-increasing family or just to bump up the amenities…a new kitchen, ROTG or similar project that will put off the need to move for a year or two until the market shows signs of rising confidence

        

The first thing you may notice about MamboJoe…the blog that is, is that is is not a Wordpress themes blog.Thats because when I set this up as my first blog, free wordpress themes  and such things were not known to me.

I was a rookie, I had heard about the use of blogs as a good method of marketing for your main website so I thought I better have one!

I kept my domains with godaddy and when I saw you could set up a blog for cheap money I grabbed it and away I went blogging about the vitues of my site and all I was doing.

It was later down the line when I realised that the wordpress templates you could download for free were a much better source of blooging script and since then blogs that I have set up for various businesses have always used free wordpress themes as their base.

The wordpress blog has load of inbuilt functions and the free templates that you can download for free mean that you pretty much have an unlimited supply of themes to choose from.

So, if your a novice looking to set up your first blog and dont know where to go to get started….click a link and away you go…

        

Lets make that two things on my mind….The Righteous Brothers and a Georgia Mortgage
The mortgage payment is on most peoples minds these days. What with the sub-prime crisis and effects of those variable rate mortgages cutting into everyones income its not surprising that refinance is at the top of a lot of peoples christmas list. Georgia refinancespecialist Georgiarate.com have some good ideas on the subject. They specialise in Atlanta Home loans so if you are in the need to refinance to get out of an upcoming rate hike you should see what they have to offer.
I am a little surprised at the trouble that variable rates have caused. most of it though has not stemmed from the rate being variable but from the fact that mortgage lenders lent too much money at subsidized rates just so they could lend.
In the UK, variable rates have been around for as long as I have…thats a long time! If the lenders had been a little more realistic in the income multiple that they lent against and a little more forthcoming about the actual costs when the real rates kicked in…things would have worked out a lot better.