Frequently asked questions

It depends on the size, the finish range and your plot. We give you a fixed price in writing for your project, before you sign.

The breakdown of what is and isn’t included is under what is and isn’t included.

It is fixed, not «from». A «from» price is easy to advertise: you just put a low number. Only a builder who knows their costs can give a fixed price: if we get the calculation wrong, we pay for it, not you.

The price is fixed because the scope is fixed. Before you sign, you have it in writing, item by item, what is included and what isn’t.

Because the plot determines a real part of the cost: whether there is mains water and electricity, the distance to the network, the access or the groundworks. That cost is not the same on two different plots, and a single price for any plot would be wrong one way or the other.

What we do is assess it on site and agree it in writing before you sign.

Yes, a standard foundation. But let’s be clear: what each piece of land needs varies a great deal, in steel, in concrete and in excavation depth. That is why, before you sign, a geotechnical survey of your plot is carried out, which you pay for.

If the survey shows that your land needs more than the standard foundation, we quote it and you sign it before the contract. That way it doesn’t turn up halfway through the build.

The house isn’t negotiated item by item: it is the real price, with no padding to cut. If it came down because you pushed, that would prove the original price wasn’t real.

Where there is room is in the packs and the finish levels. There we can adjust things that are worth more to you than they cost, without touching the price of the house.

Yes, and it can be explained without making up a figure: you hire the builder directly, with no developer or estate agent in between. Both of them have to take their margin, and you don’t pay it because they are not in the chain.

In return, you get to decide: layout, finishes, dates. That is why we do it turnkey, with a single point of contact, a fixed price and a completion date with a penalty clause.

Before comparing the figure, ask for three things in writing: what happens with drainage if the plot has no mains sewer, what completion date they will sign and what happens if they are late. If, for the same scope, it comes out cheaper, take it — we mean that. What doesn’t make sense is comparing a fixed price with a starting price.

Each payment is tied to a specific construction milestone, and the one who certifies that it has been completed is the site supervision team: an independent professional who isn’t paid to say yes.

If there is a delay, a penalty for every week is applied, with a cap, written into the contract and deducted from the final payment.

Yes, through a procedure, not by word of mouth. The specification is finalised before you sign, and work doesn’t start until then. After that, any change is recorded on a change order with its cost and the days it adds to the schedule, and it is only carried out if you sign it.

No. It is a reinforced concrete wall with insulation on both faces. The insulation stays in place as part of the wall, and its thickness is adapted to each project. They are not boards or panels: it is a concrete structure.

It is made by a European industrial group with some 70 factories in 13 countries, which has been making it for decades and also has a factory in Spain. Its technical data sheet forms part of the design of your home.

It depends on where you are from. In Norway and Ireland it is a widely used system; in the United Kingdom, a minority one but growing. In Germany and the Netherlands it isn’t the mainstream system, although the level of insulation taken for granted there is higher than the standard building practice in this area.

Because building with it requires crews specifically trained in the system, and there are still few of them here. The material also has to be brought in, and people generally ask for what they know, which is brick. We have our own team trained in the system.

The wall is solid: 15 cm of reinforced concrete with insulation on both faces. That mass dampens up to 60 dB, so the road, the neighbour’s dog or the village fiesta stay outside. It is not the same as a partition wall.

The core of the wall is 15 cm of reinforced concrete. Under the regulations, a reinforced concrete wall of that thickness withstands ninety minutes of fire. The insulation on the outside is protected under mortar and one-coat render, and on the inside under the plasterboard.

Because every house goes through eight checks, with an independent laboratory where regulations require it. The two that matter most: thermal imaging, which shows whether there are thermal bridges, and façade watertightness, which confirms that no water gets in through the windows.

That’s true: there is no finished villa with this system yet. What there is: three generations building in this area since the nineteen-sixties, with a dated photo archive, and around 25 detached homes of the same type, as well as public works. Those houses were built traditionally: they vouch for the builder, not for the system.

The system is backed by the eight checks and by the years the manufacturer has been making it in other countries. When the first villa is finished, you will be able to visit it.

No. We study it and build it exactly as it is. If you like, we recalculate it with our wall and show you the difference; if you then prefer yours, we build it as it is.

The construction period is written into the contract, with a penalty for every week of delay, with a cap.

That is the construction period, not the moving-in date. The licence and the water and electricity connections depend on the town hall and the utility companies: we show them to you separately on the calendar, but we don’t promise them as if they were ours.

A penalty is applied for every week of delay, with a cap, written into the contract and deducted from the final payment. It doesn’t depend on anyone’s goodwill: it is enforceable.

What changes the cost most is not the house, but what the plot is missing: water and electricity connections, access, distance to the mains. Tell us where it is and we will tell you what it will need, free and without obligation, even if you end up building with someone else.

Without wastewater treatment there is no first occupancy licence, and you cannot legally live there. That is why, on a plot without sewerage or mains water, the Autonomy Pack (wastewater treatment plant, water purification plant and solar panels with batteries) is mandatory. It is agreed in writing, with a price, after visiting the plot.

If the plot has electricity, solar panels become optional: they lower your bill, but you don’t need them to live there.

Because rural plots tend to be large (in the Alicante area, at least 10,000 m² for one home) and fencing the entire perimeter doesn’t add as much as enclosing the area around the house. Our standard is to fence between 2,000 and 3,000 m² around the home.

No. You buy the land directly from the seller. If you don’t have it yet, we help you find it, with no commission.

Before you decide, we give you material you can review on your own and show your family: a video of the system being built, the tests in writing and a list of our suppliers you can call to ask whether we pay when we say we will.

And payments against milestones certified by the site supervision team work the same wherever you are.

All commitments are put in writing: design, licence, contract and milestone certificates, which your lawyer in Spain can review.

No, and it is advisable. Your lawyer should review the construction contract before you sign; we send it to you so they can do so in good time.

We recommend you discuss it with your lawyer or tax adviser in Spain. We do not give tax advice.

You have a written guarantee in the contract, with its time limits. And the approved design and the licence are in your name.

No. We come back after three months, after a year and after the first winter, to ask you how the house has performed and what electricity bill you have received.

We don’t promise a figure before measuring it in our own houses. What we do is the testing: thermal imaging and watertightness, which show there are no heat or water leaks. We will know the actual consumption with the first homes handed over and their first winter.