Private sale · No agency commission
Three bedrooms and a 38 m² terrace on the fourth floor of the painted waterfront, eleven metres from the water on the Costa Blanca.
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Location is key
La Vila Joiosa is best known for the row of painted houses along its seafront — colours the fishermen chose so they could pick out their own home from open water. The town still works for a living: the auction runs at the port most weekday afternoons, and Valor has been making chocolate here since 1881.
It sits between Alicante and Benidorm, with tram line 1 running to both, blue-flag sand in the centre of town, and four golf courses inside twenty minutes. Close enough for a Friday-night flight, quiet enough to be a home rather than a resort.
What's nearbyAerialDrone frame — the painted row and the harbour wall, shot from the sea
The apartment
The fourth floor of the indigo facade, on the stretch of the Passeig that still faces the harbour rather than the traffic. Restored in 2019 behind its protected front — new roof, new lift, rewired and replumbed — with the chestnut beam ceilings kept and the timber shutters remade to the pre-war pattern.
The plan was opened toward the water, so kitchen, dining table and living room now share one 52 m² room with three sets of doors onto the terrace. The sea is in the room from morning until the light goes off the water around nine in July.
Hero interiorLiving room with all three terrace doors open, late afternoon
Discover the apartment
Photography is scheduled for the last week of August — shot late afternoon on a rising tide, when the light comes back off the water onto the facades. Each frame below names the shot that belongs in it.
01From the terrace, looking south-east past Cap Negret
02The indigo facade seen from the harbour wall
03Living room, three doors open
04Marble counter under the beam ceiling
05Main bedroom at first light
06Restored cement tile, en suite
07Second bedroom with sea view
08The Passeig at dusk, from the doorway
09Study off the living room
Specification
Full survey, deeds, cadastral extract, community accounts and the energy certificate go out in one dossier before any viewing.
Floor plan
Schematic, drawn to proportion but not to scale. The measured survey drawing is in the dossier. The terrace runs the full width of the sea side, and the living space opens onto it through three sets of doors.
Request the survey drawingExperience La Vila Joiosa
A fishing and chocolate town of about 35,000, between Alicante and Benidorm. Times are approximate: walking at an ordinary pace, driving outside August.
Private sale
No agency sits in the middle, so there is no commission on either side. You use your own lawyer, exactly as you would in any Spanish purchase, and we deal with each other directly.
Deeds, nota simple, cadastral extract, community accounts, energy certificate and the survey drawing, all in one PDF.
Video first if you are outside Spain, which most buyers prefer, then in person Thursday to Saturday.
Your lawyer drafts the contrato de arras. Ten per cent holds it and takes it off the market.
Completion at the notary in Villajoyosa, usually six to eight weeks later. Keys the same day.
Before you ask
If yours is not here, put it in the form and you will have an answer inside a day.
Budget roughly 11–12% of the purchase price in the Valencian Community. Transfer tax on a resale is 10%, and notary, land registry and legal fees make up the rest. Your own lawyer will give you an exact figure.
Yes. You need an NIE number, which your lawyer arranges, and a Spanish bank account for the utilities and community fee. Nothing about the purchase requires residency.
The tourist rental licence is held and transfers with the apartment, which is not something new applications can rely on in this town. Bookings run strongly from May to October.
Busy, and worth knowing before you commit. The Moors and Christians festival takes over the seafront in late July, including the landing re-enactment on the beach below. Some buyers plan their year around it; others avoid the last week of July entirely.
Either way. There is a separate inventory with a price on it, or the apartment is handed over empty. Say which you would prefer when you write.
Let's talk
Viewings run Thursday to Saturday. Tell me roughly when you are in the area and I will fit around it. Answers come from me, not a call centre — usually within a day.
Your details go nowhere else and there is no mailing list.
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