Things you should know before buying a plot in Moraira

What to know before buying a plot or land to build a house in Moraira.

Buying a plot of land to build a house in Moraira is one of the most important decesions of our lives and selecting the right site is going to be the most difficult part of the hole process. Nowadays, no one considers building a house in Moraira without including some sustainability criteria, either because a house without including some sustainabiity criteria, either because they are radically environmentally conscious or simply because they want to build a house in Moraira that saves energy to reduce costs. Check the list of essential checks before buying a plot of land in Moraira:

Important considerations before purchasing a plot of land in Moraira.

1.- Qualification and Use

The appropiate qualification to build a house in Moraira is urban land and its use is residential. Building houses on land that is neither developable nor rustik is not allowed except for some very specific exceptions established in the municipal legislation.

2.- Buildability

It is the number of square meters of housing that can be built in relation to the size of the plot. It is usually expressed by a coefficient that, multiplied by the meters of plot, allows to obtain the maximum built meters of the house.

3.- Heights

Set the maximum number of heights of your house.

4.- Occupancy

It is the coefficient that limits the maximum size of the house in the floor plan.

5.- Setbacks and boundaries

These are the minimum separations to maintain with the facade line and with the adjoining plots at the time of placing the house on the Moraira plot.

6.- Financing of the purchase

Banks in Spain finance up to 70% of the appraised value of the land through the application for a bank mortgage loan.

Other aspects to consider when buying a plot of land in Moraira

1.- Orientation

Undoubtedly, one of the main factors to take into account will be orientation. The best, the south orientation, which will allow us to make the most of the incidence of the sun to heat our house in Moraira naturally.

2.- Solar incidence

The incidence of the sun is a factor closely related to the previous one since in addition to preferring a south orientation, it is important that the plot or land in Moraira is not protected by mountains, forests, or neighboring buildings that do not allow the incidence of the sun's rays on our plot in Moraira.

3.- Air circulation

The natural ventilation allows the renovation of the interior atmosphere and avoids humidity in our house, it verifies that there is a fesh breeze and that this one, is not conditioned by buildings, vegetation, etc...

4.- Type of soil

Many times the seller has a geotechnical study with data on the type of soil where you want to build your house in Moraira.

The type of soil will affect the construction cost, a soft soil will require more expenditure on foundations.

5.- Slope

Like the type of soil, the slope can increase the cost of building your house in Moraira. A sloping land requires the construction of earth retaining walls, we will preferably opt for level or slightly sloping land.

6.- Water drainage

This poing can be controversial in relation to the previous point since in order to have good drainage, it is important to have a certain natural slope in the land where you will build your house in Moraira. But in this case, we will not only analyze the land but the environment, it is important the check that in case of rain our land will not accumulate water but the water will flow naturally. It is advisable to talk to local people to find out if there have been floods or landslides in the are.

7.- Services

Nowadays, the crisis has left not only many houses half-built but entire urbanizations have been paralyzed for lack of budget, it is not superfluous to make a visit to the local town hall to verify that the water and electricity connection for our house in Moraira arrives correctly to our plot or land. Do the connections arrive at the foot of the plot?

8.- Geotechnical and biological study

The verification of the existance of faults and subway water currents in the land, which is known as telluric currents, is important since these currents produce magnetic fields that can affect the health of the people and for that reason, it will be necessary to locate them before distributing the rooms and living spaces of our house in Moraira. The subway currents are located by means of a geobiological study.

9.- Constructive Regulations

There are two basic concepts that you must know. The first one is Occupancy, which is nothing more than the gross suface area expressed as a percentage that your home in Morara will icuppy within the plot. Another term with which you should familiarize yourself is Buildability, which consists of the total square meters that can be built on the plot, including all the floors that will complete your property in Moraira. You should check that it is not in a flood zone and verify setbacks and boundaries.

10.- Various important Checks

Locate your plot in Moraira through Google Maps, visit it and check its conditions, analyze the immediate surroundings, the distance to your neighbours, the accesses, the presence of mountains, rivers, roads or nearby walls, verify that everything is in order, request a "Cédula Urbanística", pay attention to the possible "servidumbres" (easements) whether they are of passage or pipes under your foundations, limitations of some kind or other people's explotation rights. Verify any type of "additional expenses". In private urbanizations, there may be additional expenses for urbanization and maintenance of common spaces. Vegetation may be protected.

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