BEYOND THE SALE

Margaret Mitchell and her team from Álora Properties go above and beyond to meet buyers’ needs

ÁLORA PROPERTIES owner Margaret Mitchell moved from Scotland to Spain in 1997 and has worked in the real estate sector since then selling to both Northern Europeans and Spanish clients and fully embracing and enjoying her life integrated into the Spanish community.

She now helps others to fulfill their ambition to buy either a permanent home or a holiday home in Sunny Spain.

She is particularly helping others who aspire to live in one of the most picturesque valleys in Spain, the Guadalhorce valley.

Álora Properties specialise in the sale of homes in the area known as the ‘Valle del Sol’.

The area is well connected by train; “ if you want to go to Malaga city or along the coast as far as Fuengirola there is a reliable rail service,” Margaret said.

“The pace of life here is magical, it feels like living in a real community.

“You have all the amenities you need even though you’re in a small town and Álora is also a great base to visit the rest of Andalucía with Cordoba, Granada and Sevilla all less than two hours away.”

Álora Properties has been operating since 1998 and recently moved offices to Plaza Fuente Arriba 5.

Margaret said the relationships she and her two staff members had with clients have always extended past the final purchase of a home.

“We are an after-sale service as well - we’re here, we all live here,” she said.

“It’s not just a case where we sell a property and that’s the end of the relationship” “It even happened one day when someone came to me with a brown paper bag with false teeth inside and they asked me where they could go to fix them - we sold that person a home four years previously!”

For more information about Alora Properties you can visit www.aloraproperties.com or call +34 952 498 454 or +34 609 45 44 09 man , this whitewashed village once drew visitors to dip into its Fuente Amarga spa, with its legendary healing properties.

Stress and muscle fatigue are washed away with a variety of therapies ranging from natural gas inhalation to mud spray treatments.

It should reopen one day soon. Head uphill for a couple of miles and you will find the eagle-eye views at the Cerro de Hijar hotel, one of Andalucia’s more remote places to stay.

Every hairpin bend round the steep cliffs offers up a fresh angle on the Guadalhorce Valley. Looking down as far as Malaga and to waterfalls trickling below, it’s easy to forget that the Costa del Sol metropolis is just over the mountain.

From here you head up towards the stunning white village of Yunquera and Alozaina embedded like jewels in a setting of olive groves.

The entrance to Yunquera’s charming centre is marked by stone arches while the church – the crowning glory in most of these pueblos - can be seen against the skyline from