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Here at Your Key to Spain, we have many years experience of the Spanish property market, and are accustomed to listening to the individual wants, desires and ´must-haves´ of hundreds of prospective buyers.
Most of these, or course, make absolute sense – the garden for the dogs, the third bedroom for the teenage boy…I´m sure you get the picture.
But the one request (or ´demand´ in many cases) that I always query is the need for a west or south-west facing terrace. Now, don´t get me wrong, I can totally understand why any pasty Northern European like me might want to soak up as much sun as possible during the summer trip to their apartment in Spain…and I must admit that the idea of sitting there with my feet up, gin and tonic in hand, watching the sun going down is more than appealing, I always ask if people have seriously considered this scenario…particularly if they are thinking of doing it during July and August.
Trust me on this (I´ve lived here 10 years) - when the sun starts swinging to the west come mid-afternoon, we have normally reached the very hottest time of the day, so by 4pm any open terraces facing the sun will be baking…quite literally. And this ´baking´ effect will continue until the sun sets at around 9pm. That´s 5 hours of direct sunlight at 35 degrees.
Even for those enjoying the cool of the air-conditioned interior, chances are you will need to close the curtains, either to escape the glare, or to prevent your lovely lounge feeling like the inside of an oven on Christmas Day.
I know you think I´m being a Drama Queen, but try it for yourselves when you next take a holiday in Spain and see how long you can stand it for!
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