- What am I actually buying?
- Use, floor and plot area, year of construction, how the building is divided and the outline of the plot. In black and white, rather than from the listing.Source: Cadastre (Dirección General del Catastro)
- Can the river flood the house?
- Whether the plot lies in a mapped flood zone: the 10, 100 or 500-year flood. This can matter for insurance and permits.Source: Environment ministry (MITECO – SNCZI)
- And from the sea?
- The same question for storm surges and coastal flooding, by medium and low probability.Source: Environment ministry (MITECO – SNCZI Litoral)
- Is the house too close to the shore?
- The distance to the coastal protection zone and to the public shoreline. In the protection zone much needs a permit; the public shoreline belongs to the state.Source: Coastal authority (Dirección General de la Costa y el Mar)
- Is it in a protected area?
- Whether the plot lies in a Natura 2000 site, and how the cadastre classifies the land. Building and use follow their own rules there.Source: European Environment Agency (Natura 2000) and cadastre
- Has there been a wildfire here?
- Burnt areas of past decades over your plot: in Andalusia back to 1975, in Catalonia to 1986, in Valencia to 1993. No listing mentions a fire next door.Source: EFFIS (Copernicus) and regional fire records
- Is there a wildfire zone requirement?
- Whether the plot lies in a designated wildfire risk zone. Firebreaks, planting and building conditions depend on it.Source: PATFOR (Valencia), ZAR (Balearic Islands)
- Is a holiday let registered here?
- Whether a tourist rental is already registered for the flat or the building. An existing entry can affect the value; whether it transfers and is still valid has to be checked separately. We do not check whether you may let.Source: Regional registers, around 320,000 entries
- How noisy is it?
- Aircraft and road noise from the official noise maps, as day, evening and night levels. A Sunday-lunchtime viewing will not tell you.Source: Environment ministry (Mapas estratégicos de ruido)
- How far is the supermarket – and what disturbs?
- Straight-line distance to supermarket, doctor, school, bus, beach and airport. And what is nearby that the listing leaves out: motorway, railway, power lines, phone masts.Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors
- How does the plot lie?
- Height above sea level, slope and orientation of the land. See the hillside and the south side before you travel.Source: National mapping agency (IGN/CNIG – MDT)
- What is around it?
- Woodland, farmland, housing or industry in the surroundings – from the European land cover map.Source: Corine Land Cover (European Environment Agency)
- What was here before?
- Aerial photos from 1956 to today, with the plot boundary drawn in. You see extensions, pools and tracks, and since when they exist.Source: National mapping agency (IGN/CNIG – PNOA)
Plus broadband in the municipality and, where available, the values of current court auctions in the province.