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WHAT IS A HOLIDAY HOME?

A holiday home is any property situated in a tourist resort or within a range of 25 kilometres. Such properties may provide benefits like the following: quality accomadation, rest and relaxation, contact with nature, proximity to sporting, cultural, religious or health facilities.

Types:

• Unoccupied properties or second homes to let (self-catering) or for sale: villas, apartments and bungalows.
• Country houses: unoccupied villa or apartment in a country area to let entire or as separate rooms.
• Time Share property: you buy the right to use a property or part of a property for a specific week a year.
• Promotions: normally these are properties for sale which are still under construction or building work is about to commence. The advantage of this sort of properties is that they are cheaper than one that has already been built. In some cases it is the only way to acquire a property in areas of great demand.
• Special offers:  Normally these are properties on the market which CASASPAIN™ recommends as having price reductions.
• Investments: profitable investments in short term. Although we have comprehensive listings, we prefer to deal directly with clients and offer a personal service. We include in this section: urban developments, apartment blocks, hotels... They are located in areas of tourist or economic expansion and they represent a rapid return on an investment.

HOW TO LOOK FOR A HOLIDAY HOME

There are four simple ways to search:

1. Interactive map: starting with the selection of a province on the map and a simple form to fill in. It is a seach system for situation and for the main characteristics of the property. It matches closely the clients' demands.
       
Starting from the text box at the home page:
2. Search by town: you can write the name of a town and a list all the properties in that town will appear.

3. Search by reference: if you have already seen a property and know its reference, you can  enter the reference and the details you require will be brought up.

4. Search by Advertiser's Password: the advertisers' search system. Writing their secret password in the text box they can see a listing of their properties in the database.

Access to all search methodes is via our Home Page.

If we do not have a suitable property a further system of "Property Wanted" can be accesed.

HOW DOES CASASPAIN™ WORK?

CASASPAIN™ is a search system for holiday homes and a publicity service that works in the following way:

1. The advertisers fill in a description form and they send us 4 photographs or pictures of their property.
2. The properties are inserted in our database and any potential holidaymaker or client looking for a second home can see them.
3. The holidaymakers describe their requirements though the search form or they participate in any other search system.
4. CASASPAIN™ automatically selects the properties in the database that fit these characteristics. The property description and some photographs can be seen.
5. The interested parties contact the proprietors or the agency through an e-mail connection for each house advertised, the property website or by other means.
6. The announcer and his or her new client contact each other directly. We wish to emphasise that CASASPAIN™ is not a middleman in any stage of the contract between the advertiser and his or her new client.

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10 REASONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

1. AN INNOVATOR WAY OF ADVERTISING
Internet allows developing a new technology for administrating databases for the business of real state and tourist properties. You can insert in our database an unlimited number of properties during one year. The plaintiffs enter our webpage for free and, by means of a questionnaire, they filter the properties that adjust closely to their demands. This process gives a reduced selection of properties in which yours will have an outstanding position.

2. A WAY FOR INCREASING THE CONTACTS
The plaintiffs will contact you through the connection that CASASPAIN® will put at your disposal in each property announced. The contacts will increase in number because Internet allows them to communicate in a quick, confortable and economic way by e-mail. The people interested will contact you, from their own houses and at any hour of the day, after seeing the description and pictures. YOUR CLIENTS HAVEN'T EVER HAD IT EASIER!

3. THE PURCHASING POWER
The contacts will be increased in number but also in quality. This way you will be able to reduce the number of fruitless contacts. Diverse grateful studies (The General Study of Means in Spain, www.aimc.es, diverse journalistic and university articles...), have revealed that the average age of the people in Internet is from 25 to 45. They are very dynamical and they also have a high purchasing power. Through the WWW in their companies, more and more executives contact each other. Also the people who visit our website are very likely to rent or to buy, as they enter from the tourism and business sections in the most important websites searchers.

4. DIRECT CONTACT
We are the agency that facilitates the contact among offers and demands. But it is you who is responsible of persuading your new clients of the advantages and delights of your property. You will deal exclusively with your client, without any middlemen. The amount of our services is consequently materialised in a fixed rate a year thus saving the high cost of commissions.

5. INTERNATIONALIZATION
You will get wider coverage of the Spanish market  but also internationalising your clients since we translate every single property into 4 languages (English, Spanish, French and German) . We also invest in promoting CASASPAIN™ in every national and foreign searcher. With foreign tourism you will be able to increase the demand in low season and you will get new sale opportunities with foreigners of high purchasing power.

6. INVESTMENT IN ADVERTISING
CASASPAIN™ invests for you in advertising in Internet as well as in graphic means to attract the tourist-plaintiffs to your properties. These investments increase the visits and the consequent rentals, sales and occupation degree.

7. ADDED VALUE SERVICES
Our basic service is advertising properties in our database but we also have other complementary services. There is a free system of Properties in search, a section of tourist information, announcements like "we have lodgements for (certain event)", a section of investment oportunities and seasonal offers... We also include banners and design webpages.

8. INTERACTION WITH DEMAND
You will communicate your offers but the plaintiffs also tell us they demands. We pick up the demands for properties that don't suit any of the announced and we communicate them to you through the system "Properties wanted". You will be able this way to know the changes in global demand and to announce properties or lodgings with a concrete objective: to show them to people directly interested.

9. THE IMAGE OF PRESTIGE
Nowadays not everybody is prepared to participate in the WWW fearing the novelties, ignoring their advantages, lacking economic means... You, the advertisers, are being innovators. For that reason everybody appreciates this effort.

10. RELATIONSHIP RESULT-PRICE
CASASPAIN™ offers results measured in terms of occupation degree and number of sold properties. These results are comparable or higher to those of the graphic means. Our rates are more affordable because we don't support distribution costs or impression costs.

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WHO CAN BE ANNOUNCED?

There exist three kinds of advertisers:

• Proprietors of tourist houses: These advertisers will benefit of our basic service of including properties in our database. There are some optional and more personalised such as including banners, season opportunities, advertising campaigns on the Internet... The lodgings can also have a website of its own.
• Companies of tourist properties an real-state agencies: if you are devoted to the tourist-real state business in Spain. The corporate publicity of these companies will be carried out in banners and designing corporate websites.
• Companies of complementary services: banking, insurance and property administration, furniture, design of interiors, gardening services, cleaning and home attendance, transport and car rental...

STEPS TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY

1. You have to fill in and send the e-form, Form for Joining Advertisers, to ask for an Advertiser's Key.
2. Within 24 hours you will receive a "Key confirmation". Then you can insert your properties in our database through the e-form "Including Property". Then, you can send us your photograhs.
3. When we have received the total amount of the required services, the anounces of your properties will appear on the Internet. You begin to receive reservations or applications asking for more information.

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ADVERTISING YOUR PROPERTY

Instructions to fill in the form for "Including property":

Advertiser's Password

It is a password you can choose freely with up to 7 characters without distinguishing between capital or small letters (or numbers). Nobody, apart from you and CASASPAIN™ will know about it. When you contact us you have to make reference to it. You will select it when filling the "Form for Joining Advertisers" and we will only change it if there already exists another identical one. When you receive your "Key confirmation" you can insert the properties by means of the e-form. You will be able to list all the properties announced writing it in the text box at the home page: see "Search for Advertiser's Password".

Property reference

Your clients will refer the property through it when they contact you. You will be able to check the insert of your property carrying out a "Search for reference".

Type of operation

When you carry out several operations with the same property (Ex: selling and letting it at the same time) you have to fill in as many forms of insertion as correspond (the forms "Insert property to let" and "Insert property for sell"). You should repeat all the data of the description as if it was two different properties, with two different references.

Option buttons

You can only activate one.

Verification stalls

To let For sale Leisure Tranquillity     Beach   Country  

You can activate as many stalls as you need.

Text squares

Try to write the correct text.

Brief description of the property

The description will appear in the first page of the selection. So you should take advantage including specific data that differenciate your property from the others. You also can include other characteristics which you are interested in emphasising. Keep in mind that when we plan vacations or carry out a transaction it is decisive to know the environment where the property is sited. This environment should be relatively near environment (not more than 25 kilometres).

VERY IMPORTANT: The text should have a telegraphic form for you have to make good use of the space provided. You don't have to elaborate complex sentences or include acronyms or initials.

Photographs

Don't forget sending us 10 photographs of each property.
The pictures should have a good enough quality for being visualized perfectly on the Internet. You should indicate the property reference on them.

You can opt for one of these shipment methods:

1 - The pictures not digitised in format paper (the habitual ones) or those digitalised in disk (from digital camera), can be sent to our post office box.

2-  You can also scan the photographs and send them in JPG format.

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RIGHTS OF AUTHOR AND REGISTERED TRADEMARK

CasaSpain reserves all rights as to the design of the web site including text, graphics and photographs under Spanish Law regarding the Rights of Authors and under reciprocal International Treaties. It is expressly forbidden to copy, to modify, to distribute or to publish all or part of the web site content without a priorly written permission from CasaSpain

CASASPAIN™ is the trademark of CasaSpain and is prohibited to make use of it or the logo without prior permission.

Ignoring this warning may have severe consequences and is punishable by law.

For more information you can consult to the Client Attention Department: Mail & Suggestions

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