Nic Mac wrote:Hello everyone,
My husband and I are looking for a property for permaculture / off-grid living in Spain and we're hoping that someone has some tipps for us or perhaps even a property they're selling themselves 
We are looking for a property with at least 1-2 hectars of land, a reliable water source if possible and for under 20,000 Euro. If it's cheaper than that, then that's even better.
We really appreciate any help.
The land that you would buy is the one which is constructable, or "Edificable" in spanish... Normally you can find those around a huge price, even if its on a no man's land. This "constructable" land will have sewage system, electricity near and water via pipeline. The network of this three systems is not very developed around rural areas, but there are small towns that would receive you all if you intend to live and belong to the village.
Getting into small villages with 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 people is difficult to connect, as most of them doesnt speak a single word of english and they don't see the foreigners as much more as tourists, even for the common spaniard its really difficult to adapt into this situations. Forgive about internet or even GPRS connection in this areas, it's really harsh when you have some problem to solve and you find yourself alone in the middle of nothing trying to resolve some dumb issue that you would resolve in a few seconds with some google research.
We are looking, a family of three, for buying an abandoned village or a similar place to live, or even joining an existing rebuild, as long as we need this for our retirement we would like to invest now. So we try to make some small changes into a rented land near Barcelona, trying to fix the soil in the first place and maybe get some results as a path to go and demonstrate that we can do it better than the most of the farmers around. Just for the intention to keep something running before we take our definitive place.
We think around the price of 150.000€ at least for a property in minimal conditions to farm, live, and keep working in the city to build up a nexus in between our dreamland and reality. This things come slow, and we would take it, if everything goes right in a couple years or so.
An example:
https://www.idealista.com/inmueble/34311588/
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