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Illustration of a modern single-storey villa among almond trees at sunrise, a terrace table with two empty chairs.
An illustrated guide

Your home in Spain

From the first idea to the keys.

For people who don’t live here yet. Vinalopó valley · Alicante

Inside

  1. Picture your first morning
  2. What nobody explains
  3. Ready-built, or built for you?
  4. Who is who
  5. The road to your keys
  6. Where your money goes
  7. Five things to get in writing
  8. Before you buy a plot
  9. Following your home from far away
  10. The people behind the wall
  11. After the keys
  12. From this page to that morning
Illustration of a sunny terrace beside a long pool: a straw hat and coffee on the table, two children's bikes against a stone wall, dogs asleep in the shade.
Chapter 1

Picture your first morning.

Coffee outside, before the day warms up. The almond trees you chose the plot for. The kids’ bikes already by the door. A kitchen where the winter light comes in low and gold.

It starts here — with one question:

How do you get from this page to that morning, without losing sleep on the way?

Illustration of a path starting from an architectural drawing on the ground, crossing the countryside through morning mist towards a finished house in the distance.
Chapter 2

Most of the risk in building a home isn’t in the concrete.

It’s in what nobody explained before you signed.

Who approves each stage. What you pay, and when. What happens if a date slips.

At home, you’d know exactly who to ask. Here the rules, the paperwork and the language are new — and that gap is where most bad experiences start.

This guide closes the gap. It’s what we would want our own family to know before building in Spain — whoever they chose to build with.

Split illustration: on the left, a key on a hook in an impersonal show apartment; on the right, a person standing on an empty plot marked out with string lines, looking at the hills.
Chapter 3

Ready-built, or built for you?

Both are good ways to have a home in Spain. They are not the same thing.

Buying ready-built

You can walk through it before you pay, and you move in sooner.

But someone else chose the plot, the orientation, the layout and the finishes — and the price carries the margin of everyone between you and the builder.

Building on your own plot

It takes longer. And a few steps — the building licence, connecting water and electricity — depend on the town hall and the utility companies, not on any builder. That’s the honest part.

But it’s the only way the house is yours from the very first line: your plot, your light, your rooms. You buy directly from the builder, with nobody’s margin in between. And a good contract turns the unknowns into a timeline you can read.

If building is your path, the next pages show exactly how it works: who does what, where your money goes, and what to get in writing.

Top-down illustration of a round stone table with six objects: a house key, rolled drawings, a safety helmet on a clipboard, a spirit level, a pen with an official stamp, and a folder.
Chapter 4

Who is who

Building a home in Spain means a small team around one table. Knowing who sits where is half the calm.

You — the ownerThe plot, the building licence and the house are in your name from the first day.
The architectDesigns your home with you and signs the project the town hall approves.
The site directorAn independent professional who checks each stage and certifies it before any payment is due.
The builderBuilds what the project says, at the price and in the time the contract says.
The notaryMakes property documents official. A public officer, on nobody’s side.
Your lawyerReads everything for you, in your language, before you sign. We recommend having one.
Panoramic illustration of a dotted path with milestone markers crossing the countryside from an empty plot to a finished modern house.
Chapter 5

The road to your keys

  1. The plotCheck what it has and what it needs — before you buy it.
  2. The projectYour home, designed and drawn.
  3. The building licenceIssued by the town hall.
  4. The contractPrice, scope, timeline and payments, in writing.
  5. The build, stage by stageEach stage checked and certified.
  6. First-occupation licence and connectionsTown hall and utility companies.
  7. Your keys
Committed by the builderDepends on public offices and utilities

A good builder shows those steps separately in your calendar — and commits only to what they control.

Illustration of the same house in six construction stages side by side, each with a blank tag hanging above it and a person with a clipboard beside it.
Every stage is checked before it is paid.
Chapter 6 · Where your money goes

Your money never goes ahead of your house.

You pay in stagesEach payment is linked to a stage of the build that is already finished.

Someone independent checksBefore you pay, the site director — who doesn’t work for the builder — certifies that the stage is done.

Distance changes nothingIt works exactly the same whether you live next door or two thousand kilometres away.

No stage finished, no certificate. No certificate, no payment.

Illustration of five blank cards with simple icons laid out on a stone table next to a coffee cup.
Chapter 7

Five things to get in writing

From any builder — including us.

1The full scopeEverything included, item by item — and everything that is not.
2A fixed priceFor that scope. Not a “from” price.
3A timeline with a penaltyA fixed amount for every week of delay, up to a limit, taken off the final payment.
4Payments on certified stagesAs in chapter 6.
5Changes only in writingAny change goes on a signed sheet with its cost and the days it adds. Nothing verbal.

If a builder gives you these five in writing, you can compare offers properly. If they won’t, that tells you something too.

Illustration of an empty rural plot with almond trees, a dirt track, a power line and a dotted outline where a future house could stand.
Chapter 8

Before you buy a plot

A beautiful view is the first reason to fall in love with a plot. These are the questions to ask before you do.

  • Can a house be built here? Rural land has its own rules. In the Alicante area a house on rural land needs a plot of at least 10,000 m²; in the Murcia region, at least 5,000 m². Ask the town hall for the planning status in writing.
  • How do you get there? A legal access, usable all year.
  • Water. Is there a mains connection nearby, and how far?
  • Electricity. A supply at the boundary — or your own solar system?
  • Wastewater. Without mains drainage, a private treatment system is required to live in the house legally.
  • The ground. Slope, rock, soft soil — it changes the foundations.
No two plots are the same — so we’ve planned for that.

Our packs adapt the house to what each plot has and what it lacks: from a plot with every connection at the gate, to one that needs its own water, energy and wastewater treatment. You don’t start from zero; you start from a solution already thought through.

Fill it in and send it: we’ll tell you what your plot needs

My plot

We reply in your language and tell you what your plot needs — even if you end up building with someone else. We only use your details to reply to you.

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From here on

No more drawings. This is what it looks like for real.

So far you have seen the idea. From here on: the build, and the first morning in a finished home.

Illustration of the terrace, the idea. The finished terrace in the morning, someone sitting with a coffee looking at the almond trees.
House under construction: reinforced concrete walls insulated on both faces, and the site director checking them with a tablet.
A stage being checked before it is certified.
Chapter 9

Following your home from far away

Distance shouldn’t mean guessing.

Every stage, documentedPhotos and a short report when each stage is certified, so you see your house grow.
One person to talk toA single contact for all your questions, from the first plan to the last detail.
Check us yourselfAsk for a list of our suppliers, call them, and ask whether we pay when we say we do.
Visit when you canYour site is always open to you — and to any professional you want to bring.

You build together with us, even from another country.

Two-storey villa clad in limestone, with a garden and a pool, seen from the air.
One of our homes.
A block of the Everhome wall filled with reinforced concrete, insulated on both sides.
The wall, inside.
Modern villa of white volumes with a pool and a palm tree, seen from the air.
Another of our homes.
Chapter 10

The people behind the wall

We are a family of builders from the Vinalopó valley: three generations building here since the 1960s.

We have built homes for families and public works for town halls — and we still drive past many of them every week. Today we build with a reinforced concrete wall insulated on both sides: the Everhome wall. We show you what’s inside it before you decide anything.

We live where you want to live.

When your house is finished, you won’t be buying from someone who has moved on to the next coast. We’ll be here — a few kilometres away.

A builder hands the house keys to a couple at the glass front door.
Handover day.
Chapter 11

After the keys

Handing over the keys is not the end of the story.

We come back — three months after you move in, after one year, and after your first winter — to see how the house is behaving and to fix anything that needs it.

A house is a long relationship. So is ours.

The finished terrace in the morning, someone sitting with a coffee looking at the almond trees.
From this page to that morning

You now know who does what, where your money goes, and what to ask for in writing. The next step is simple, and it costs you nothing.

Tell us where your plot is. We’ll tell you what it needs — even if you end up building with someone else.

Send us your “My plot” page →

What this guide doesn’t cover. Taxes as a non-resident, visas and residency, and international money transfers are important — and they depend on your personal situation. For those, speak to your own lawyer or tax adviser in Spain.

The illustrations are artistic recreations, not photographs of a finished house.