TV PROPERTY HUNTERS
“We negotiated our Algarve apartment from €115k to €80k”
Portuguese-born driving instructor Hilario Ribeiro and teaching assistant Jackie McGilvray from Chelmsford in Essex were seeking a bolthole in the Eastern Algarve for around €80,000. Sara Damergi (pictured right during fi lming) helped them put in an off er for a property but they didn’t end up buying it, reports Jackie, 54.
“T e property we off ered on turned out to have planning issues so we played it safe and let it go. However Hilario headed back out to the Eastern Algarve in December [2013] to produce a new shortlist of properties for me to look at. When the school term fi nished I headed out and we both agreed on a one-bed fi rst-fl oor apartment in Altura, only 200 metres from the fi rst property we viewed on the programme, and near the beach. It was fully furnished and we negotiated it down from €115k to €80k and completed the sale very quickly. We’ve now been out four times and simply love going there and doing as little as possible.”
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“All the nice furniture in our new apartment in the Costa Blanca had been replaced with cheap rubbish”
Sandra Bracken, who works in a school in Southport, Lancs, was fi lmed searching for a property in Torrevieja in the Southern Costa Blanca with her sister Susan Bruce and Sara Damergi (pictured leſt ). She purchased the sixth property but then disaster struck…
“I bought a two-bed ground fl oor apartment in a complex in Nueva Torrevieja for £43k straight aſt er the programme was fi lmed. It was full of nice furniture, ‘sold furnished’ and I headed back in December to take possession when all the paperwork was completed. But I was in for a nasty shock, when I arrived with the agent we discovered that the furniture had been removed by the vendors and replaced with cheap rubbish such as fl at-pack beds that weren’t assembled and the brand new fridge swapped for an old rusty one. T ere was nothing we could do. We had to replace it all and can now laugh about it because overall we are delighted with the apartment, it’s in such a great location and I know I did make the right choice. I love Spain and visit it every school holidays.”
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