{"id":1095,"date":"2013-04-18T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:06:02","slug":"property-and-finance-doing-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/property-and-finance-doing-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Property and finance &#8211; doing it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130412-Sur-in-English-Property-And-Finance-Done-Right-Sur-in-English.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" alt=\"2013-04-Lawbird-Sur-in-English-Property-and-Finance-Done-Right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-04-Lawbird-Sur-in-English-Property-and-Finance-Done-Right.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-04-Lawbird-Sur-in-English-Property-and-Finance-Done-Right.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-04-Lawbird-Sur-in-English-Property-and-Finance-Done-Right-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>There is general agreement that this is a good time to buy property in Spain. Prices are unlikely to drop further and those who are looking to buy as an investment should receive a good return when they sell in the medium to long term. Those looking for a main residence or holiday home will also be able to afford a larger or more luxurious property than they might otherwise have done.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason for the purchase, buying a property is a major investment and one that needs to be protected and looked after. The\u00a0number one rule in this regard is to use the services of a lawyer. It might be tempting to save money by not doing so if everything appears to be straightforward, but this could well prove to be a false economy.<\/p>\n<p>Why is a lawyer essential? For many reasons, says <strong>Antonio Flores<\/strong>,\u00a0of <strong>Lawbird Legal Services<\/strong> in Marbella. Horror stories can happen.<\/p>\n<p>[..]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download the PDF for further reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130412-Sur-in-English-Property-And-Finance-Done-Right-Sur-in-English.pdf\">20130412-Sur-in-English-Property-And-Finance-Done-Right-Sur-in-English<\/a>\u00a0(PDF ~1Mb)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is general agreement that this is a good time to buy property in Spain. Prices are unlikely to drop further and those who are looking to buy as an investment should receive a good return when they sell in the medium to long term. Those looking for a main residence or holiday home will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,150],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawbird-in-the-media","tag-antonio-flores","tag-lawbird-legal-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}