Category Archives: The market

New sales office opens at Roda golf and Beach Resort

Exciting news at Roda Golf and Beach Resort, Roda Golf are pleased to announce the opening of their new sales office at the old pro shop where the temporary clubhouse was located. Click here to read the full article Read this article, and optionally leave a comment

Exciting news at Roda Golf and Beach Resort! Roda Golf are pleased to announce the opening of their new sales office at the old pro-shop where the temporary clubhouse was located.

You can now view an excellent range of resale properties, as well as have access to the brand new "key ready" and "off-plan" properties direct from Roda Golf. The new sales office will be open seven days a week, so please pop in and visit the very friendly and professional staff any time, even if it is just for a chat.

If you wish to sell your property at Roda Golf and Beach Resort, please feel free to call the office between 10am and 6pm any day and receive the very best help and advice from the staff there.

Your property will be marketed and promoted to everybody that walks past the old clubhouse, there will be slide show presentations as well as regular updated pictures in the windows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

To call the new Roda Golf sales office for information on available properties, or to enquire about selling your property, please call 00 34 968 144 148 and ask for either Chris or Michael, or send an e-mail to us here at info@rodagolfinfo.com

The Importance of PROFESSIONAL Property Management

In this message from our sponsor Calida International Properties, Stuart Thomas explains the importance of professional property management. He stresses the importance of treating your home or investment as a serious business, and offers insight into protecting that investment and making the maximum revenue from it. Remember it's thanks to the help from Calida that we can bring you our up to date news...including our impending May photo shoot! Please click here to read about the importance of professional property management. Read this article, and optionally leave a comment

Calida's dedicated property management site
Calida's dedicated property management site

There are a large number of owners at Roda Golf who have purchased their property for investment purposes. Most of you who fall in to this category will require, indeed will rely upon, rental income to cover some, or all, of the costs associated with owning property at the Roda Golf and Beach Resort.

Some of these costs will in most cases involve a hefty mortgage. There will be community fees, and these will vary depending on the type of property. There will be the ongoing service charges like water, gas and electricity. There will be wealth taxes to consider; property management fees, and of course the ongoing cleaning and linen washes to consider. Some of these costs will vary on usage of the property of course, but they will be there none the less.

You can save a few euros now by "cutting corners" and using a local "husband and wife" team, or perhaps a retired something or other, to provide a "key holding" service. You may even decide to build your own website. You will likely still land the "odd" rental, mostly through your friends and family and the occasional work colleague, but you will not achieve the rentals that you want and need. You may save a few euros in the short term, but it really is a short sighted view.

Roda Golf and Beach Resort provide their very own rentals and property management service and for the most part I believe people are very satisfied with the service, they are achieving good rental results, particularly from the golfing fraternity.

For those of you that did not purchase your furniture pack from Roda Golf, this option is not available to you, hopefully this would have been fully explained to you by either your agent, or Roda Golf themselves.

You really should treat your purchase as a serious investment, maybe even a second occupation, and dedicate as much time, money, and effort as is required to guarantee that your investment at Roda Golf and Beach Resort is a good and sound one.

Calida International Properties will provide a complete advisory service to help you promote your property through a wide range of internet advertising, through their own network of websites, and through websites of associates with which they work very closely. They will also help you to advertise your property through your local golf clubs back in the UK or Ireland, as well as provide A5 adverts for your local shops, supermarkets and businesses, for distribution where you feel they will be most effective. Calida International can arrange for a professional designer to photograph and construct websites for your property, just like this client of ours!

Calida International Properties are also working closely with a number of travel agents and sports tour operators in the UK, particularly Go2Sport plc who specialise in luxury golf holidays, including the providing those very elusive and exclusive tickets for the US Masters and the Ryder Cup.

They will help to look after your property for you when you are not here, they will also make sure that your guests enjoy their visit so much that they will want to come back next time, and they will tell all of their friends and colleagues about your property and the fabulous Roda Golf and Beach Resort experience.

To read more about Calida Internationals' Property Management please visit their new, dedicated website here: Calida International Property Management

Roda Golf - Buy or wait?

Our sponsors over at Calida International Properties are enthused with the amount of visitors we are getting here on Roda Golf Info, and they have agreed to start writing some articles for us! In this first article Stuart Thomas, managing director of Calida International, discusses his thoughts on the ever present worry - "Buy now or wait?". Stuart provides some illuminating, and honest insights into the current market in general and at Roda. Click here to read the full article

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Our sponsors over at Calida International Properties are enthused with the amount of visitors we are getting here on Roda Golf Info, and they have agreed to start writing some articles for us! In this first article Stuart Thomas, managing director of Calida International, discusses his thoughts on the ever present worry - "Buy now or wait?". Stuart provides some illuminating, and honest insights into the current market in general and at Roda. We print his article in full below:

Location, Location! Does it get better than this? - Click to enlarge
Location, Location! Does it get better than this? - Click to enlarge

We have been asked many times over the last few months, "why should we?", or "why would we?" buy property at Roda Golf and Beach Resort - and it is a very good question.
Clearly the world wide "credit crunch" has really started to "spook" not only those people who are considering purchasing, but also those who have already purchased at Roda, combine that with a very strong euro, and you can see why people might consider delaying their purchase of property at Roda Golf and Beach Resort

The truth is there is never a good time to buy... or indeed a bad time to buy! There is only a time when it is right for you as an individual. Let me explain - The property market in Spain has experienced a considerable slow down, that was always going to be inevitable, particularly after ten years of solid growth, the problem is not as bad as the problem currently being experienced in the UK, however there is no doubt, there is a slowing of the market.

In the UK there has been some quite dramatic slowing figures being produced, but not in London, the UK generally has slowed to a standstill, but London property prices continue to perform pretty well. One should understand that Roda Golf and Beach Resort is a lot like London in this respect, you have all heard the expression "location, location, location", well Roda Golf and Beach Resort is currently the very best location in the region, and possibly even the best location in Spain to purchase property.

San Javier / Murcia Airport - Click to enlarge
San Javier / Murcia Airport - Click to enlarge

When you consider the world class Dave Thomas designed golf course, the gated resort just a couple of minutes from the stunning blue flag beaches of the Mar Menor, just 5 minutes from San Javier airport, with the 2 cities of Cartagena and Murcia just a stones throw away, and luxury properties still available for under 240,000 euros, it s easy to see why property sales are still pretty buoyant, not as good as they were 2 years ago, but on a resort with a maximum of 1,800 properties, obviously there was going to be a problem with availability.

There is not the wide choice of properties available any more, nearly all of the really desirable properties have gone, no longer can you just walk in to Roda Golf and pick from a choice of penthouse apartments, now you have to take what is available, this is why, if you are seriously considering buying at Roda Golf, make sure you can afford it, then go and "jump straight in" you will not regret it.

Somebody asked us just today, "what if I wait for the euro to weaken against the pound?" well what if everybody does the same thing?, you will have a mad rush again when the euro weakens and property prices will rise very sharply, what if the euro continues to strengthen? you will kick yourself for having "missed the boat" yet again.

Properties are limited at Roda Golf, particularly the "front line" golf villa's and the penthouse apartments, and the problem is getting worse daily. Unlike other developers and other resorts, Roda Golf are still making steady sales, if you are considering buying at Roda Golf, then it must be because you love the place, you have probably played the golf course and, like me, you have probably put a ball or two in one of the fabulous lakes. You will probably have enjoyed a nice cold beer served by the very friendly staff at the clubhouse, or enjoyed the wide variety of stunning restaurants in the nearby town of Los Alcazares, whatever your reasons for wanting to buy at Roda Golf, our advice is "strike while the iron is hot" - delay at your peril.