Spain has a general election on Sunday 29 November, after an 87-year-old woman was evicted from her home in Madrid, protests spread across the country and Congress rejected two emergency housing decrees. Graham covers what happened, the protest in Valencia, what the official statistics say about foreign buyers in Valencia, and why he does not expect prices to fall.

• The election call for Sunday 29 November.
• The Mari Carmen case: the eviction on 23 September, the protests in cities across Spain, the Madrid march and the agreement that lets her go home.
• The two housing decrees and the vote in Congress on Friday 2 October.
• Graham's own take on the election.
• The housing march in Valencia on Saturday 3 October, which ended at a property investment conference.
• How many foreigners buy in Valencia, using the registry and Ministry of Housing figures, and where American buyers fit.
• Why prices are not falling: land, licences, smaller households and cheap fixed mortgages.
• A client who offered 16 per cent under the asking price and lost the property to a 4 per cent discount.
• Why we still write blogs and make podcasts.

• How Many Foreigners Buy With Valencia Property
• No Land, Slow Licences, Cheap Mortgages: Why Prices Aren't Falling
• Missing Out on Great Properties
• The 2026 Valencia Property Mid-Year Report
• Why Blog, Why Podcast, Why Do Anything (Substack)

These are the sources cited in the foreigners post.

• Colegio de Registradores, Q2 2026
• Colegio de Registradores, Q1 2026
• Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana, Boletín Estadístico
• Ayuntamiento de València, Padrón 2025
• Colegio Notarial de Valencia, foreign purchases up to Q1 2025

• Mallorca Informa: Sánchez calls the election for 29 November
• Reuters via TimesLIVE: the eviction of Maricarmen
• dpa: the Madrid march and turnout figures
• Infobae: live blog of the decree vote, 2 October
• Infobae/EFE: the five people arrested in Valencia

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Series Five, Episode One: Back to Business, a Full Pipeline, and Stepping Stone's Busiest Year

We're back for series five. In this episode: how September has started at Valencia Property, including four notary signings in our first week back, the two ways to start your property search with us, why Stepping Stone Rentals is having its strongest year yet, and why we're currently hiring for the team.

What's covered:

• Welcome to series five
• Four notary signings in week one back: Godelleta, Valencia, Denia, and a renovation project already underway
• The two ways to start your search: the enquiry form or a video call
• Why we've changed how video calls get booked, and what to do instead of ringing us direct
• What the next few months look like: full funnel, more listings, a busier autumn ahead
• Stepping Stone Rentals: more properties currently let than ever before, and why we're hiring

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Book a video call with Valencia Property: https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/09/07/book-a-video-call-with-valencia-property/
• The form: why we ask what we ask: https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/06/29/the-form-why-we-ask-what-we-ask/
• Stepping Stone Rentals: https://www.steppingstonerentals.com/

Ready to start your own search? Fill in the form or book a video call using the links above.

A special and rather annoying episode of the Valencia Property podcast today. We want to tell you a story about squatting. What happened, how we resolved it and some advice about how to avoid it Have a listen and if you have any questions then feel free to contact us on information@valencia-property.com We will be back with season five of the podcast next month.

Welcome back to the Valencia Property podcast. In this month's podcast we look at our half yearly report. Prices up but sales slightly down. How does that happen and what is happening overall in the market. We also go through some of our recent posts and publications and take some gratuitous swipes at Elon Musk because he's fair game.

Show Note Links (I mentioned a lot of articles this month)

Fill in the form here

https://forms.gle/jVS1zTSXpVZCoS3Z6

The 2026 Mid Year Report

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/08/02/the-2026-valencia-property-mid-year-report/

Making Mission Impossible Possible

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/07/12/making-mission-impossible-possible/

Your Stepping Stone Route to Living in Valencia

https://valencia-property.com/new/2024/08/19/your-stepping-stone-route-to-living-in-valencia/

International and Bilingual Schools in Valencia

https://valencia-property.com/new/2021/02/09/international-and-bilingual-schools-in-valencia/

The Valencia Property Client Handbook

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/02/23/the-valencia-property-client-handbook/

Bloody Banks and Valuations

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/07/19/bloody-banks-and-valuations/

The Spanish NIE Number Made Easy and Free

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/07/05/the-spanish-nie-number-made-easy-and-free/

The Valencia Property Reading List: Every Guide We’ve Published in One Place

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/06/21/the-valencia-property-reading-list-every-guide-weve-published-in-one-place/

The Form: Why We Ask What We Ask

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/06/29/the-form-why-we-ask-what-we-ask/

How to Work With Valencia Property

https://valencia-property.com/new/2022/11/14/how-to-work-with-valencia-property/

Setting Up Your Consultation Call With Valencia Property

https://valencia-property.com/new/2025/09/01/setting-up-your-consultation-call-with-valencia-property/

Getting a Mortgage in Spain as an American: What’s Different and What to Expect

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/06/08/getting-a-mortgage-in-spain-as-an-american-whats-different-and-what-to-expect/

Stepping Stone Rentals

https://www.steppingstonerentals.com

Valencia Property Blog

https://www.valencia-property.com/new

Valencia Property Homepage

https://www.valencia-property.com

From the 1st of June, property transfer tax in the Valencia region drops from 10% to 9% on purchases under one million euros. We explain what that means in real money and why some buyers are deliberately delaying their completions to take advantage of it. We also cover the full story of converting a derelict restaurant into the Valencia Property office, gym and studio — seventeen months, two refused planning applications, a visit from the police, and a sign saying Salida. On the rental side, Isabella from Stepping Stone Rentals explains why accepting pets makes commercial sense for property owners. Plus the latest from the blog: leisure activities in Valencia, the ultimate FAQ compilation, and what fourteen people were doing in a notary office at the same time. Links mentioned are below

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/06/01/what-you-need-to-pay-and-when/ What you need to pay and when https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/05/25/the-ultimate-valencia-property-faq-compilation/ The Ultimate FAQ Compilation

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/05/18/how-to-organise-your-leisure-time-in-valencia/ How to Organise Your Leisure Time in Valencia

https://valencia-property.com/new/2026/05/11/the-secrets-behind-a-restaurant-conversion-in-valencia/ The Secrets Behind A Restaurant Conversion

On the Substack https://valenciaproperty.substack.com/p/converting-a-derelict-restaurant Converting a Derelict Restaurant

https://valenciaproperty.substack.com/p/generations-coming-together Generations Coming Together

https://valenciaproperty.substack.com/p/queueing-in-a-notarys-office Queueing in a Notary's Office https://www.steppingstonerentals.com/blog/lease-on-a-leash-why-the-smartest-mid-term-rentals-welcome-pets/ The SSR Blog About Pets

The homepage to see our latest properties is here https://www.valencia-property.com You can find our socials on Bluesky here https://bsky.app/profile/grahunt.bsky.social

Siestas, Market Dynamics and Leaving Cali: An Interview With Lisa

This week we have two things for you. A look at why the Valencia property market is not heading for a crash (Probably and unless) and an interview with someone who traded Silicon Valley for El Carmen and has not looked back.

On the market side we get into the numbers. Supply, demand, interest rates, the different types of buyers keeping this market moving and why a soft landing looks nothing like 2008. If you have been waiting for prices to fall before you make your move, this is worth listening to.

Then we talk to Lisa Guinn. Thirty years in Silicon Valley, the last stretch at Google, and three years ago she and her husband packed up and left California for Valencia. We talk about what drove that decision, what the move actually looked like in practice, and how you find a rental in this city when you have no Spanish and no local payslip to show a landlord. Spoiler: At Stepping Stone Rentals we sorted it out.

Lisa is in her seventies, retired, pays around two hundred euros a month for private health insurance with no co-pays and no deductibles along with 175 for the Convenio Especial (We talk about that too), and describes her social life here as more active than anything she had in California. We also get into our sponsor the siesta, and why the Silicon Valley culture of bragging about how many hours you spent at work is not just unpleasant but pointless.

We talk about what thirty years in tech taught her, what she thinks has gone wrong with it since, and what the view of the United States looks like from the outside when you have had three years to think about it. The spoiler here is "It's different"

Her advice to anyone sitting on the fence: get off it. Come for six months. No decision is irreversible. Links for this month's episode are just to our main pages www.valencia-property.com for the properties

www.valencia-property.com/new for the blogs

www.steppingstonerentals.com for the medium term rentals