Our house-hunting begins in earnest, when Lore and her husband Julio take us to see the terreno they are selling on the edge of the city.
It’s a site called a ‘fraccionamiento” which means that it is being divided up between people. On the edge of a protected reserve, Lore and family are going to build several houses, including their own.
It’s tempting, but we don’t think it’s right. It’s a beautiful place, and the houses the family will build there will be gorgeous (they own a local hotel, and we’ve seen it, so we know they have a real sense of style and taste). Also, they would build us a house to our own specifications (chimney, bath, etc).
However, it’s a little bit more than we’d want to spend (though still absurdly cheap by British standards), and would be harder to rent out when we aren’t here because it isn’t walkable to the centre. We’ll keep looking, but it was quite exciting to look at the possibilities, and nice that they would like us to have a house so close to theirs.
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A friend of mine bought some land in Brazil, and the other week the building work finally started. She lives in your neck of the woods - if you like I could ask her if she had any advice/words of wisdom she could offer.
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