Long Term Rental

Hi barnesg,

Welcome to Expat.com

I invite you to browse through the list of real estate in Spain which might be helpful.

Can you please give us more details regarding the accommodation you are looking for?

You may also have a look at the section housing in Spain.

Thank you,

Hasnaa

It's quite difficult to sort much out through the Internet because, often, the estate agent webpages are not kept up to date. It is very easy though to simply turn up at an estate agent and ask to see rental properties. Usually you can see the properties the same day though sometimes it will be the day after.

You can use the Internet to check out the sort of houses and flats available which gives you some idea as to the type of property on offer in an area or town. You can also use the Internet to contact the agents directly. Find one in an area you like the look of, tell them that you're after a furnished three bed with a terrace or whatever and tell them that you will be in the area on such and such a day, make a vague appointment, and turn up on the assigned day. You'll be in business for a day's worth of visits.

Once the agents have shown you an area you like the look of you can simply walk into other local agents and ask what they have. Agents tend to be very local in the sense that the majority of property they have on offer will be very close to their office. In one agent in Cartagena for instance we were shown five properties one morning and we walked to each one.

The usual process with agents is that you end up needing to pay three months rent. One month's worth is for the agent as commission for their work, another is a returnable deposit against damage to the property and the third is the first month's rent. So if the rent is 500€ you will need to stump up 1500. You will, eventually, get 500 of it back.

There are lots of sites for renting houses where individuals put their houses up for rent. This has the advantage that you will only need to pay two month's worth up front.It has the disadvantage of being much slower.

If you use a search clue like pisos  en alquiler name of town or casas en alquiler name of town or casas particulares en alquiler name of town or pisos particulares en alquiler name of town you will get hundreds of choices. Pisos are flats, casas are houses (they are interchangeable in meaning to Spaniards) alquiler is for rents and particulares is for individuals. If you don't mention a town all of the websites offer a search option.

Many thanks to you both very useful information, have a great weekend

Take a look at web site.  fotocasa.es. Found home for rent. We just got back from Spain and loved Alicante and Torrejvija. We are presently living in California USA and considering a move to Spain.

Jim Sanderson
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Does it have to be Murcia - I have a 2 bed battenburg townhouse for rent in El galan ( near villamartin)  it's newly furnished, and we were hoping to rent it out for one year

Thanks but we are still very early in the search and will be several more months before we are ready to rent, for now still researching

Similar situation, only in Valencia, instead of Murcia.

Doing research now, and we'll be in Valencia for a week this October for "fact-finding".  Would it be useful to contact estate agents while there to get a feel for rentals and areas of the city? We wouldn't be actually renting until a year or two from now.

Just wondering if they're likely to spare the time to help.

Thanks