Costa Blanca Confidence
Moving to Spain · an honest starting point

Ready for Spain?

See in three minutes where your moving plan stands today: which phase you are in, what is holding your plan back and which step comes first. Not a test with right or wrong answers. An honest starting point, from someone who did it himself in 2026.

Why this check exists

Free · about 3 minutes · your first result without an email address

Calpe and the Peñón de Ifach, seen from the coast
The essentials in 30 seconds
  • Ten short questions about your plan, your household, your money, your place and what you already know of daily life.
  • You immediately see your phase, what already stands and what comes first. Then, if you want, your full Spain plan with three actions and the two clocks.
  • Made by an estate agent who moved from Antwerp to Calpe himself in 2026, and only learned the right order along the way.
Being honest
2 clocks

A move has an administrative clock and a housing clock. Most plans get stuck because people follow only one.

±12%1

Purchase costs on top of the price in the Valencia region. Find that out at the notary and your house is smaller than you thought.

60 days2

The window to import your car without registration tax after deregistering back home. One of the pitfalls I nearly missed myself.

Notes and sources

1. Comunitat Valenciana: 9% transfer tax (ITP) on an existing home since 1 June 2026 (Ley 5/2025, previously 10%; 11% above a million), plus notary, registry, gestoría and lawyer. Together typically 11 to 13%. New build from a developer: IVA 10% plus AJD.

2. The registration tax exemption when importing your own vehicle applies when you move your habitual residence, to be requested within 60 days of registering in Spain. Own experience, 2026; have the exact conditions for your situation confirmed by a gestor.

Why this check exists

You do not need to know everything today. You do need your next right step.

Moving to Spain is full of things you do not know yet: income, tax, healthcare, residence, school, the home, the place. Most guides turn that into a checklist of thirty points. That is not what you need.

What you need is to know what is already clear, what has not been decided, what is a real blocker, and in which order to tackle it. That is exactly what this check does. Ten questions, and you know where you stand.

I did it myself in the summer of 2026, from Antwerp to Calpe. I learned the order along the way: first the NIE, then a long-term rental, and only then the town hall registration and residency. And that the car had to come along within 60 days. Nobody told me that up front. That is why it is here now.

I am an estate agent, not a tax adviser. Where your plan needs a specialist, the check simply says so. And where it is about the place and the home, I am happy to help you myself.

Four phases

Every plan sits somewhere between dreaming and leaving. Where does yours?

01

Dream phase

The wish is there, the basics are not yet: which version of Spain, when, with what money.

02

Orientation phase

You are researching the big choices. Some are settled, others are still assumptions.

03

Planning phase

Timing, money and housing route are largely concrete. Now the order counts.

04

Ready to go

The critical conditions are confirmed and no blocker is open.

Your Spain plan

Not a score of 73 percent. Six parts, three actions and two clocks.

A percentage suggests a precision that does not exist. So you get your phase, the status of six parts with the reason attached, and the critical dependencies separately. With me, a blocker never averages away into a mean.

Then the three actions that pay off most right now, with who does them and by when. The administrative clock and the housing clock side by side, filtered to your situation. What your budget buys net in housing. And my own route from 2026, pitfalls included.

Your plan gets its own link that keeps working. Do the check again in three months and see what moved.

Fair is fair

What you may hold this to

01

Value first, your email address later

Your phase, what already stands, your main blocker and your first action are visible straight away, without filling in anything. I only ask for your email address to deliver the full plan and keep your link working.

02

The result is never polished to make you call

The rules are fixed and traceable to your answers. If you are not ready to go yet, the plan says so. And if the next step is a gestor or your partner, and not me, that is simply what it says.

03

I am an estate agent, not a tax adviser

The check spots what is still open on the tax, social and legal side, and says who should confirm it for you. It gives no advice on those matters itself. I think that is the only honest way.

Three tools, in the order of your life

Planning, buying, selling.

You are here · planning

Ready for Spain?

How realistic is your plan, what is holding it back and what do you do first.

Next · buying

The place test

42 towns and zones on the Costa Blanca, ranked for your life. Your answers from here carry over.

To the place test
One day · selling

The valuation

What you keep net when selling on the Costa Blanca North, after commission and taxes.

To the valuation
Before you start

What you probably want to know

Is this really free?

Yes. You see your snapshot without filling in anything. If you want the full Spain plan, the only thing I ask is your email address, so I can deliver the link. And I am honest about why: I am an estate agent on the Costa Blanca North. If you look for a home in my area later, I hope you think of me. If you don't, you still have a plan that is actually useful.

I don't know yet whether we will really do it.

Then this is exactly the moment. "I don't know yet" is a valid answer to every question. The check does not punish you for it; it does tell you which one choice sets the rest in motion.

Does this give tax or legal advice?

No, deliberately not. The check spots what is still open around income, tax, social security, healthcare and residence, and says who should confirm it for you: a gestor, a tax adviser, a lawyer. What they will tell you, I cannot predict, so I don't.

We are still in doubt, my partner and I.

That is the most common blocker, and the most underestimated one. Do the check both, separately, and put the two results side by side. You will see straight away where the difference sits: the timing, the place, the money or the goodbye. That conversation is worth more than ten viewings.

We are looking at a different region than the Costa Blanca.

Do the check anyway. The phases, the blockers and the order apply anywhere in Spain. I will tell you honestly that my patch is the Costa Blanca North: I cannot recommend a local agent elsewhere, and so I don't.

Will I get ten sales calls now?

No. You get your plan, and beyond that you only hear from me if you tick that box yourself. Leave it unticked and it stays at that one plan. Your details go to nobody else either way.

I want to choose a place first, not make a plan.

Then the place test is your way in: 42 towns and zones on the Costa Blanca, ranked for your life. Do this check afterwards and your answers carry over. The other way round works too.

Shall we see where you stand?

Ten questions, about three minutes. Your phase and your first action appear straight away. The full plan follows, with a link that keeps working.

Costa Blanca Confidence