Eastern Coast

A guide to property for sale in Costa Blanca, Spain’s Eastern Coast

Escape 2 Spain provides you with information regarding Costa Blanca property for sale and rent in Spain, we also include investment properties for sale and rental in Costa Del Sol and Costa Brava.
The Costa Blanca is a 170 mile stretch of Spain’s south east coast, centered on Alicante and running from Denia in the North to Mojacor in the south. It’s famous for the mega resort of Benidorm, with its superb beaches and pulsating nightlife. While this resort is great for an evening out, there’s actually very little residential property there.

The main areas for privately owned villas are north of Benidorm, from Altea to Denia, and south of Alicante, around Torrevieja.

A latecomer to the tourist scene in comparison to its neighbours the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol the climate of the Costa Blanca is exceptional and the area around Denia has been named as the third healthiest place to live by the world health organisation.

The temperatures are usually mild and gentle with an average of 18oc. The humidity is low and for those who suffer from arthritis, moving here can be especially helpful. The beaches are simply some of the best around the Mediterranean.

The countryside at the northern end of the Costa Blanca is attractively mountainous and rocky, culminating in the towering cabo de la nao and the spectacular pennon de ilfach-a sort of mini Gibraltar at Calpe. Getting there is easy with charter and scheduled flights to Alicante and Murcia from most major European cities.

Driving down from the French border is a breeze on the excellent A7 motorway. To the south of Alicante the landscape descends and flattens out into an enormous plain covered by salt deposits and palm trees that make the backdrop for the beaches.

Close to Cartagena, in the area sometimes known as the Costa Calida is the well known La Manga development and sports club, virtually a resort in its own right, with its 27 hole golf course and 17 tennis courts and its oasis- like Puerto de Mazarron. In these dry sandy flatlands of the south there are numerous developments taking place with an abundance of keenly priced spanish properties to be obtained. To the north of Alicante with its conservation areas and subsequent shortage of building land properties are like for like more expensive.

The Costa Blanca is one of those regions where each of us can find our place in the sun. There are myriad properties, located in dozens of different settings. There is only one way to find out which is ideal for you and that is to go there. Take two or three holidays in the area, get to know people, taste the food and drink, try the lifestyle and then see if it is for you. Life on the Costa Blanca is life as it should be lived.

With Europe’s ageing population more and more people are coming up to retirement age at a younger and younger age. Often their children have fled the nest and many are now selling their homes and opting for something smaller whilst investing the monetary difference in an overseas property.

Then there are younger couples, probably with two good incomes and a taste for foreign travel. Investing in a home in the sun makes an interesting alternative to squirreling it away in a pension fund. Chosen carefully, an overseas property should gain in value and provide a reasonable return from rentals while providing idyllic holidays whenever you want them. It could even be an eventual retirement home.