wrote on Jun 16^th, 2011 at 3:14pm:

Bigyin wrote on Jun 16th, 2011 at 12:01am: wrote on Jun 15th, 2011 at 2:20pm: So how do you avoid these pitfalls, find a property at a realistic price and avoid being ripped of by all these people? Do you think that 1,000/acre is a realistic price ? If as John has pointed out money can not be made then the land has no value other than as hunting ground, probably about 100 euros a hectare in that case! Land is a commodity of sorts, if you can't build on it or make money from it, it ceases to have any quantifiable value.    So I want a piece of land to build-renovate a house on and have a smallholding and make a partial income from it, if I can't do that then the land has no value to me and I wont buy it. What would you pay for land that you can do nothing with, why would you hand over money with no possibility of it making a return on your investment?

hi if you are looking to make money (a return on your investment )then i wouldn't bother to buy lots of us have spent 100s of euros here in spain and are now loosing out (haveing to sell less than the price we payed and after spending lots of euros doing the places up too thats what happened when we sold one house in feb) we invested over 450,000 e here and we wont break even when we have sold the last house  :o we will end up with less than we came with and thats not good is it ?but i wish you well and buy carefully dont jump into buying untill you are shaw its what you wont