Casa Mary

  • UPDATE : We are currently working on the house, garden and land to improve it further. New website photos, descriptions and an updated price will be added once the work is completed and to fully reflect the price of comparable houses in Almeria province. We estimate March for re marketing. More info will follow soon! *

A small white house which was in a poor condition when purchased after the previous owner became ill and needed to move. Everything has been improved, added to or re-done. Not lived in and in pristine condition. Move-in ready.

You can buy this with Casa Roja as a package – one to live in, plus one for income, grown up kids, elderly relatives or friends/family as guests. There’s a call for rural tourism in this area plus sharply rising demand from digital nomads on the new successful Spanish visa, who are looking for quiet, rural locations to rent in.

OR you can buy it separately as it is a self-contained house with its own plot on the catastral and own escritura and Nota Simple.

  • FULLY RENOVATED
  • Legal dwelling on the catastral and land registry
  • Airy open plan kitchen/living space with high beamed ceiling
  • Woodburning stove
  • Brand new fitted L-shape oak effect kitchen with wall and floor units, soft closers, electric oven and gas hob, Andalucian tile floor.
  • 3 bedrooms (2 doubles, one single which is currently used as a pantry and store room, but could be a great home office)
  • Totally refurbished bathroom with over sink units and light, plenty of storage and fitted utility area, IP44 lights (bathroom safe)
  • Mundoclima air conditioning in all rooms
  • Electric water boiler
  • Additional new sockets and switches
  • Traditional wooden windows and external door sanded and re-varnished, with extra-fine fly screening added
  • Fully painted throughout inside
  • External white metal roller shutters
  • Front door and window reja bars
  • *Full Victron 5kw solar system (12 panels) with grid feedback
  • Specially built solar battery shed / garden workshop
  • Mains electricity (back up for cloudy weather)
  • 1 covered clay-tiled porch
  • 2 additional newly added concrete sitting out areas east and west
  • New pergolas for both seating areas
  • Membraned and gravelled garden with several pear trees outside the perimeter and a Chinese quince (that produce fruit)
  • Parking for 3-4 cars
  • *Own legal and metered well (drinkable water) licenced for 3000m3 (cubic metres) per year
  • *Irrigation system in place and working
  • Brand new well pump July 2024, hardly used
  • Septic tank (with contract for servicing)
  • Fully fenced and gated garden
  • Internet and TV reception
  • Brand new furniture, fittings and equipment
  • *1 acre of land (5000sqm approx) which is planted with 73 young and mature irrigated olive trees.
  • Secluded location surrounded by hills
  • South facing with extensive views
  • Good access via a gently sloping rambla
  • Uleila del Campo 15 minutes drive
  • Low IBI – 120 euros per year
  • No permanently occupied properties within 1km
  • Above-ground pools are permitted
  • Absolutely done, just walk in.

Energy efficiency rating – not currently rated (but adding the solar array to Casa Roja increased that rating from G to C)

(Under EU legislation, all domestic properties must be Grade E by 2030 and Grade D by 2033 in order to be sold or let on the open market.)

* The perfect sustainable lifestyle?

* The items marked * are ideal for people wishing to live off grid and adopt a more eco-friendly, sustainable lifestyle. There are around 8 large mature trees which give lovely shade and around 62 young trees. If you don’t want the young trees there are people willing to take them – to make space for animals and vegetables plots (fed by the already installed irrigation system). Or we can put you in touch with someone to manage them for you.

Also note that there is a ruined cortijo nearby with quite a large area of open grassland at the front and side. This was previously used for housing and grazing a small flock of sheep, but it hasn’t had any animals there for several years. The owner visits very rarely just to tend the olives, and might be open to renting the cortijo and land.

Add a generator and you can go completely off-grid if you wish.

Note! No new wells can be drilled in this area (not even on the same land) so having one already is a major asset

Also you may be able to separately purchase our *tractor and olive tending equipment.

Please note! Casa Mary is a rural house which is 2km up a working agricultural track which is also a rambla (dry stream). Please see the Contact Us page for more details.

Note about pools : In-ground permanent swimming pools are not usually permitted in rustic land, because they are not considered justified structures for agricultural use. However flexible or rigid above-ground pools that are non-permanent are permitted. We understand these can be semi-sunk into the ground as long as they don’t have concrete foundations (Please also see the page All About AFOs which gives more detail about building in rustic land)

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