Property management on the Costa Brava

We do, if you would like us to. We hold a set of keys at the office in Sant Antoni de Calonge, walk the house on a rhythm you set, and deal with what we find using our own team rather than sending you a list of numbers to ring from another country.

You are told what was done and what it cost, and anything beyond a small job is quoted and approved before it starts.

It goes green, and on the wooded plots here it fills with pine needles while it does. A pool left untreated from October does not need cleaning in May, it needs emptying and refilling, and that is a far larger bill than the winter treatment would have been.

Emptying a pool is also not risk free. In the wrong ground conditions an empty pool can lift. It is not a job to do casually.

From our office in Sant Antoni de Calonge, most of the houses we look after are within a short drive. Because we hold the keys ourselves and use our own people, a burst pipe on a Tuesday morning is dealt with that morning rather than after a day of arranging.

In an emergency we stop the damage first and reach you afterwards. Turning off the water and making a property secure does not wait for an email reply. Everything beyond making it safe does wait for your decision.

Yes. Two separate things, and owners are regularly surprised by the second one. The first is IBI, the local property tax, billed by the town hall. The second is non-resident income tax: Spain taxes a non-resident owner on an imputed income from a second home even when it earns nothing and stands empty all year.

Both are ordinary, both are manageable, and both need somebody to actually file them. The penalty for not knowing is the same as the penalty for not bothering.