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We are selecting for you, on a regular basis, news and articles of interest related to Andalucia, the Spanish property market, home staging, tips to sell or rent faster, etc.

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• Last year home staging skyrocketed to the top of the list of the fastest growing careers in America. In the decade ahead it is promising to be a rapidly evolving industry and looks to be one of the key solutions to solving the housing crisis.

• According to Spain’s housing ministry, average house prices in the country fell 6.2% in 2009, compared with 2.8% in the previous 12 months. However, in the final three months of last year the declined slowed to 0.5% compared with a drop of 0.9% during the earlier quarter.

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• If two identical properties are offered to a client, this one will always choose the one which is presented in a better way, because a buyer wants to purchase the best property he can get. Some buyers can’t imagine the real potential of a property and a buyer is not only buying a house, he is buying a life style, a dream.

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• Turkey is a rising star, but Spain is still by far the most popular destination with British tourists, and rental incomes are set to increase this summer in the tourism hotspots, because of the combination of increasing tourism as the recession eases around the world, and because of the rising trend of people using the internet to build their own package holidays in privately rented apartments and villas.

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• Property prices are starting to rise in some parts of Spain, according to a new report from one of the country’s largest savings banks.

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• Global Property Experts Offer Their Predictions for What is Sure to be a Tumultuous Year. Well, the big news won’t be a big rebound in the Spanish property market, because that’s not going to happen. However there will be some great deals on prime Spanish property to be had during 2010, for those who can be bothered to do their homework and have funds in place. It will go largely unnoticed but some people will do very well.

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• Don't take it personally. Selling a home can be an exhausting and draining process. Living in a home that is for sale is not the same as living in one that isn't. Not taking things personally and setting aside lifestyle habits may be difficult, but those temporary changes will help achieve your goal of selling your home more quickly.

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• With the news earlier this week from the G-14 group of Spain’s biggest developers warning that the glut of newly built properties languishing on the market is set to continue growing, heading for 800,000 properties by year end with the G-14 calling on the government to stimulate the housing market.

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• Banks turn to home staging to sell homes. “It’s crucial to get these homes back in top-dollar condition so they don’t lose any more money,”

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• It's called staging -- that is, spiffing up your home in a number of small ways -- and it's getting more and more popular as the housing market cools and sellers try and set their homes apart. "The way you live in your home and the way you market a house are two different things," says Barb Schwarz, the CEO and founder of StagedHomes.com, who has personally staged more than 5,000 homes over the past 33 years. "You have to think of your home as a product."

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• ... HomeGain, an online home-valuation service, recently polled nearly 1,000 Realtors to find the cheapest do-it-yourself improvements that benefit sellers the most when they put their homes on the market. Cleaning the home and "de-cluttering" rooms and closets has ranked as the No. 1 improvement since HomeGain began the survey in 2000. De-cluttering was recommended by 98 percent of the Realtors surveyed and costs less than $200 but returns nearly $1,700 to the home's sale price, or a 872 percent return.The rest of the top 10: Home staging: $300 cost, resulting in a $1,780 price increase.

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