17 Feb 2011 2:19 PM:

autos aguirre at la linea (on the gib / spain border) & malaga airport  - i have been using both offices for getting on for 20 years  not the cheapest, not the dearest but offer a good service   they pick you up gib side of the border

Forum thread: Car Hire Gibraltar

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14 Feb 2011 11:07 AM:

el presidente  - mid way between san pedro & estopona, so once the new underpass opens at san pedro it will mean about 8 mins to puerto banus & 12 mins to marbella along the coast road , even now without the underpass its only about 15 mins to banus (road works included) apart from july & august when you have the bottleneck, the new underpass (when it finally gets completed will alleviate that), posistion wise i would say its a really good spot (once christened the new golden mile), the urbanisation is (to my recollection) spot on, even has one heated pool so you can swim all year round, plenty of resteraunts etc locally & a real good build quality. i used to own an apartment their & sold about 8 years ago (i was made an offer i couldnt refuse !!!) & subsequently moved to banus itself to playa del duque which was quite "swanky" again sold & then brought a cheaper new build in calahonda hills as our 25 year or so love affair with southern spain had really started to wain. in the 4 years we owned on el presidente we enjoyed the "strict" rules & regulations & visible security presence as it kept a sense of order & quality about the place (sounds a bit snobby but it kept the standars up & thats coming from a london guy with 4 boys who were allways in trouble for playing football !!!), in our time there a lot of spannish people owned on the site & in our years & years of experience this is a good thing as it would seem they are quite voiciferous in making sure everything is maintained correctly , overall i believe its a top quality development that was well maintained & had a strong communtity that worked to make sure the rules & regulations were adhered to which can sometimes seem petty (& we fell foul to them often) but it sure does keep your investment solid !!!  , my wife always says it was the best apartment we owned & in hindsight (a wonderful thing) i agree with her. i in a very depressed market, with a second wave of recession really biting & i think a really tough year ahead if you are going to invest in a spannish costa del sol property then a long established , very well maintained top quality site like el presidente is a far better bet than most of the newer developments littered with bank repo's, badly maintained communities (empy homes = no community fees = poor maintenance etc).   good luck , would be very interested to hear how you get on.

Forum thread: El Presidente whats it like to live there?

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20 Jan 2011 12:00 AM:

has anyone got any recent photo's (or could kindly take a few) of the development, one of my children

needs them for a school project that shows how the community has matured (she has used the current photos

to show the early days & needs some recent ones)  any help would be greatly appreciated   , thank you

Community thread: a favour please from any princess park owners

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10 Feb 2010 12:00 AM:

over the last few weeks i have received a number of list's of "distressed / reposession" property sales for the costa, i am an owner in block 9 & in the past have owned property up & down the coast, i am currently looking to buy a property on the original marbella golden mile as i believe the market has bottomed & the £ will improve against the euro because of the pressure on greece, spain , portugal & ireland which is dragging the euro value down. so i am hoping to be able to get a "prestige" bargain as a investment because i am convinced (i have over 25 years of experience on the costa) that we will see a recovery over the next few years.  what does concern me is that on the "distressed / repo" lists i am receiving i am seeing an increasing number of properties on princess park.   this will have a serious impact on the collection of community charges & therefore the upkeep & maintenance of the community.

is anyone else seeing this surge of repossesions on pp ?

is anyone aware of plans by p40 to deal with any shortfall in community charges collected etc ?

has anyone seen a deterioation of upkeep / maintenance on pp over the last few months (i have not been over since last september) ?

any feedback will be welcomed

thank you

 

Community thread: repo's

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24 Nov 2009 12:00 AM:

does anyone know when the next community meeting is scheduled (it must be soon) ?

also

anyone been over to pp since the summer, anything happening , how is it looking ?

Community thread: community meeting

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