Buy Your Dream House in Spain for under $50,000. Let’s All Move to…

Ever felt the need to get away from it all and escape to sunny Spain for a little fun and sangria? Well, buying that dream Spanish holiday home doesn’t have to cost a fortune if you know where to look…

Nicholas H. Simpson
4 min readFeb 6, 2022
Photo by Adrián Metasboc on Unsplash

You’ve probably heard of local councils in rural, crumbling Italian villages trying to sell off their decaying houses for $1 each to outsiders in a desperate bid to attract fresh blood to the area. Indeed, many such schemes exist in Spain too, one such being in the Municipality of Igüeña, in the county of El Bierzo, part of the autonomous region of Castile & León which has been offering homes at almost giveaway prices to attract new residents and second-home owners, and not without some success. Here, you can purchase a three or four-bedroom town house (admittedly with a fair amount of work needing doing) for under €5000.

Cheap Spanish holiday homes are available right across the country and some of it in utterly beautiful surroundings. As the villages in the interior of this fascinating country empty of elderly residents passing away and young people looking to make lives for themselves in the big cities of Madrid and Barcelona and overseas, housing options are flooding the…

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Nicholas H. Simpson

PhD candidate, language geek living and working in South Korea. All about UK culture, Korean life, cross-cultural differences and English language.