Hey everyone, it's Rob B here with Rob D and you are listening to the property podcast

and this week we are talking about exit strategies, the end game. How do you finish up in

property? What is the most efficient way of doing it? How will tax impact you? We've got that

all covered with some basic strategies but also some really advanced stuff as well.

Welcome to the Property Podcast. In case you don't know, we run a business that buys more than

150 million pounds worth of property every year for our clients. You can find out about that

at Property Hub.net slash invest.

And although we're still building, we're still growing, a lot of people are thinking,

okay, this is a well and good, but what am I building towards? What am I going to do at the end?

What am I going to do with all these mortgages? Well, today we're going to run you through all your options and we're going to talk about which ones we plan to choose. So stick around. We're bringing a bit of international flavour to our

new story of the week. And I can guess why, Rob, you can explain in the moment. But this week's

new story is about the Spanish property market and it's in the FT. Rob, what's inspired you to bring

this story to us? Well, this caught my eye because I'm in Spain right now. I'm recording from

Barcelona, which is lovely.

But not so lovely if you are a property owner, because according to this story in the FT, which you will link to in the show notes, there's a major problem with squossing and illegal occupation, not just in Barcelona, but also Madrid, Malaga, and many other big cities.

And this is because there's a property shortage in Spain,

as there is in the UK, but they're also very weak enforcement powers. So if you do have someone

who's living in your property illegally, if they've broken in or something else, you can't get

them out, you can't turn the utilities off. There's really not a great deal you can do. And surprise,

surprise, when you make it easy to do something illegal and there are no consequences for it, people tend to do more of it. But Rob, what I thought was really interesting is that I was on

Idealista, which is the Spanish equivalent of Right Move. Of course, I'm sure you do this, I hope you do

this. When you're on holiday somewhere, you get interested about of home, by number of bedrooms and all that kind of thing. But there is a special filter for illegally occupied. So you can specifically exclude or include properties that are illegally occupied. Is that man, by the time you've got a filter on right move for this, you know you've got problems. Well, that's wild. And yes, Rob,

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