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Buying an Olive Grove
Being a Landowner in Spain is Fairly Easy
By Thomas DeVere Wolsey
Buying an olive grove in Spain is a straightforward process, but your purpose for buying a grove may involve a number of more complex considerations. Let’s go through the steps to buy a grove first.
Finding a Grove
You are going to need a real estate agent, but before you meet that agent, it will be worth your time to cruise real estate sites that offer property in Spain. I found two sites to be immensely helpful (but this is by no means a comprehensive list, and I have no financial interest in these or any other site I link in this article).
Kyero https://www.kyero.com/
Idealista https://www.idealista.com/
Each allows you to determine the area of Spain where you plan to grow your olives, and each has options for land listings. Also, there are some properties in Spain that are categorized as rustica. On some of these (maybe all of them), it is not possible to build a traditional house with a foundation, though you might find some properties with older houses, cottages, or ruins on them.
Once you have picked some properties, contact the real estate agent to arrange a viewing. I spent two or three weeks looking around Catalonia and visiting with many…
