Spanish Farmhouse - Farmhouse in Spain
Traditional Spanish Farm Houses
Spanish farmhouses, these whitewashed country properties can bring a smile to the most hardened heart. Their simple design reflects a simpler more natural time when the food on the table came from the garden. Man lived in harmony with nature getting up at cock crow resting at sundown. No tacky avocado bathroom fittings in those times, in fact no bathroom at all. You went to bed with the sun because there was no electricity.
Living at one with nature meant sharing your home with goats and pigs as well as those noisy poultry. Ah yes but the romance is still there and with a good builder and a sensible budget the rural idyll is still possible.
Watch out for segregation problems though farmhouses generally come along with the farm and farming is hard work. So if you are looking for a farmhouse and farm, make sure that the property is or can be segregated from the 200,000 m2 of almonds and olives. Most of these properties will end up with 20,000m2 which gives room for you to stretch your legs and enjoy a walk around your five acres.
The traditional small Spanish farmhouse is becoming increasingly rare in the Malaga province for example and in areas like Cadiz they always were, due to the different way of land ownership. The moors tended to parcel the land out in manageable chunks whereas in areas like Seville and Cadiz the Catholic Kings gave out great estates to their generals.
However if you look you can still find properties that cost less than they would to build in magical surroundings.
Almeria is one area where they still seem to abound and although prices are rising inexorably. It is probably a good hunting ground. Granada province has a few so the best thing is to start looking on the internet.
As farmers and farmworkers have been traditionally wary of any form of authority many of the houses have less papers than a man in a bath. So do make sure the paperwork is in order. As with all Spanish property - use a Lawyer.
