Horizon Resort II

Yes, provided the legal protections are actually in place. Under Ley 57/1968, modernised by Ley 20/2015, every euro you pay after signing the private purchase contract must be covered by a bank guarantee (aval bancario) or an insurance policy naming you personally, and held in a segregated account. If the home is not delivered, you can reclaim the money plus legal interest. Ask for the guarantee documentation in writing before you transfer any stage payment, and appoint an independent Spanish lawyer of your own choosing, not one we introduce you to.

The contract sets the delivery date and the remedies if it is missed, and the bank guarantee covers your stage payments if the development is not completed. Construction timelines on off-plan projects do move, and it is better to say so plainly than to leave it out. The contract sets the delivery date and the remedies if it is missed; the bank guarantee covers your stage payments if the development is not completed. Before you sign, read exactly what the contract says about delay, what grace period applies, and what compensation is due. We will go through that clause with you rather than leaving it to the signing appointment.

At Horizon Resort II the reservation is €10,000, which takes the home off the market. Fifty per cent of the price is then paid in two stage payments of 25% during construction, the first 30 days after the reservation is signed. The remaining 50% is paid at the notary on handover.

Budget about 13%, and here is the arithmetic on a €250,000 home. IVA at 10% is €25,000. AJD stamp duty at 1.4% is €3,500. An independent lawyer at roughly 1% plus IVA is about €3,025. Notary is roughly €600–1,000 and the land registry roughly €400–700. That comes to €32,525–€33,225, or 13.0–13.3% on top of the price. Note the AJD rate: it was cut from 1.5% to 1.4% by Ley 5/2025 with effect from 1 June 2026, and many competing websites still quote the old figure.

A new build sold for the first time attracts IVA (VAT) at 10% plus AJD stamp duty. Transfer tax (ITP) applies to resale property instead — in the Comunitat Valenciana that rate fell from 10% to 9% on 1 June 2026. You pay one or the other, never both.

Yes, though on different terms. Non-residents are typically offered 60–70% loan-to-value against roughly 80% for residents, at somewhat higher rates and over shorter terms. Lenders will want your passport and NIE, proof of non-residence, payslips or accounts, tax returns and bank statements, often with a sworn translation. The mortgage is normally arranged to complete at handover, not at reservation. We can introduce you to brokers who place non-resident lending routinely.

Yes. The NIE (Número de Identidad de Extranjero) is a foreigner's tax identification number and you cannot complete a purchase, pay the taxes or put utilities in your name without one. It can be obtained in Spain or through a Spanish consulate in your own country, and it is a straightforward process. Ask us and we will walk you through it.

The exact figure for Horizon Resort II is still being finalised and we will publish it here as soon as it is fixed — we would rather leave it blank than guess. For context, a development of this size and specification, with two pools and landscaped communal grounds, would typically fall in the range of €80–200 per month on the Costa Blanca. Ask us and we will tell you where this one is expected to land.

No. A 100% surcharge on non-EU buyers was proposed in January 2025 and, as of the last check, it had still not been debated in Congress, has not passed, and is not in force. Nothing extra is payable by a non-EU buyer today. The proposal as announced would have applied only to non-resident buyers from outside the EU. It is a live political topic, so we re-check it, and your lawyer should confirm the position at the point you sign.

Holiday letting in the Valencian Community requires registration in the regional tourism register and a compatibility certificate from the town hall, and the rules have tightened. Long-term letting is more straightforward. Note also that a new build cannot be let until it is registered and licensed. If rental income is central to your plans, tell us before you reserve so we can check the current position for this municipality.

You are entitled to a snagging inspection before the Acta de Entrega, the handover deed. An independent surveyor walks the home and lists defects; those are normally put right within 15–30 days before you accept the keys. After handover you are covered by the LOE warranties — ten years structural, three years habitability, one year finishes. We recommend an independent snagging survey on every off-plan purchase, including ours.

Prices in the current release run from €209,900 to €284,900, excluding tax. A two-bedroom ground floor with a private garden is €209,900 to €234,900. A two-bedroom top floor with a solarium is €244,900 to €259,900. A three-bedroom ground floor is €254,900 to €279,900, and the three-bedroom top floor is €284,900. Every individual plot and its own price is in the availability table above. Add roughly 13% for taxes and purchase costs.

Three things a resale cannot give you: a ten-year structural guarantee under Ley 38/1999, stage payments protected by a bank guarantee under Ley 57/1968, and a home nobody has lived in, built to current insulation and glazing standards. The trade-off is real and worth saying: a resale gives you the keys now, and here you are buying a home due for handover on 30 September 2027. New build also attracts 10% IVA plus 1.4% AJD rather than transfer tax.

Sunny Casas, an estate agency based in Torrevieja, registered as agent number 5942 in the Registro de Agentes Inmobiliarios de la Comunitat Valenciana. Registration is the Valencian region's licensing scheme for estate agents, and the number can be checked against the public register. We work in English, Spanish and Dutch, and the same licence details are in the footer of this page.

In Spain a bungalow is one home within a two-level terrace, where each level is a fully independent dwelling with its own front door. A ground-floor bungalow (bungalow bajo) has a private walled garden. A top-floor bungalow (bungalow alto) has its own external staircase from the street and a private roof solarium. The two homes share a floor slab, not a hallway.

Pre-installation means the pipework, drainage and electrical conduits for split air conditioning units are routed inside the walls while the home is being built, so that units can be fitted later without channelling out the plaster. The air conditioning units themselves are not included in the purchase price. It is worth budgeting for this separately — ask us for a current quote for the bedrooms and living room before you commit.

Aerothermal technology extracts heat from the outside air to heat domestic hot water, using considerably less electricity than a conventional immersion heater. Each home at Horizon II has a Nuos Split Inverter system with a 150-litre tank. It is standard on better Spanish new builds now and it shows up directly in the running costs.

The quality memorandum for Horizon II does not specify allocated parking, and we are not going to claim it does. Some third-party listings mention parking or a garage; we are confirming the position and will publish the answer here once we have it in writing. Ask us and we will tell you where that confirmation currently stands.

No. A top-floor bungalow is reached by its own external staircase from the street, and that is exactly what makes it a separate, independent home rather than a flat in a block. If stairs are a consideration now or later, the ground-floor homes are step-free from the street through to the garden.

The ground-floor homes have a 3.19 m² storage room. The top-floor homes do not, though they have the solarium above and a terrace, which is a good deal more outdoor space. It is a small difference that rarely appears in listings and is worth knowing before you choose a level.

Every home faces either south-west or north-east. Of the homes still available, 31 are south-west facing and 14 north-east. South-west takes the afternoon and evening sun on the garden or solarium, which is what most buyers are here for; north-east is cooler through a Costa Blanca summer afternoon. The availability table above can be filtered by orientation.

Built area runs from 65.01 m² to 85.88 m² — that is the enclosed, roofed living space, what a Spanish price list calls superficie construida. The total figure in the table is that built area plus the private outdoor space: the porch and garden on a ground-floor home, the terrace and solarium on a top-floor one. Totals run from 106.99 m² to 202.56 m². Spanish listings routinely mix these two numbers up, so it is worth checking which one you are being quoted.

The quality memorandum does not state one, so there is no letter on this page and we are not going to invent it. What the specification does include is a double brick façade with an insulated cavity, CLIMALIT 6+6+4 double glazing with an air chamber, thermal insulation and waterproofing to the solarium roof, and an aerothermal system for hot water that uses considerably less electricity than an immersion heater. Ask us and we will tell you exactly where the energy performance certificate stands.

It is a functioning Spanish town of about 7,177 people, not a holiday urbanisation. There is a health centre with 24-hour emergency cover, two pharmacies, four supermarkets, a weekly market and restaurants that stay open through the winter. Around 57% of residents were born abroad, so English is widely spoken, but the town does not empty out in October the way parts of the coast do. That is the main reason buyers choose here over Orihuela Costa.

Punta Prima is 10.4 km and about fifteen minutes by car; La Zenia 11.1 km; Torrevieja's Playa del Cura 12.4 km; Cabo Roig 13.4 km; Campoamor 14 km. You will see "1 km to the sea" on some listings for this development — that is simply wrong, and we would rather you heard the real number from us.

Ninety days in any rolling 180-day period, under the Schengen rules that have applied since Brexit. Owning property in Spain does not extend that in itself. If you want to stay longer you would need a visa — the non-lucrative visa is the usual route for retirees and requires proof of income of roughly €28,000 a year. This is a question for an immigration lawyer, and we can point you to one.

Alicante-Elche (ALC) is about 66.5 km by road, roughly fifty minutes. Región de Murcia (RMU) at Corvera is closer at about 57 km, roughly forty-five minutes. Both are road distances computed with two independent routing engines; drive times are estimates and depend on traffic.

San Miguel de Salinas has its own health centre with a 24-hour emergency unit, a five-minute walk from the development. Hospital Universitario de Torrevieja, the public hospital, is 7.5 km and about ten minutes by road. Hospital Quirónsalud Torrevieja, private, is 14.6 km and about nineteen minutes.