AVAVA Homes & Estates — the journalMarket reports, legal changes and what we learned refusing files.https://example.com/blog/2026-08-14T09:00:00ZThe short-let licence review, street by streethttps://example.com/blog/012026-08-14T09:00:00Z2026-08-14T09:00:00ZTomás FerrerSix districts lost their tourism licence in July. We mapped the addresses that keep it and how asking prices reacted in the four weeks after.The attic that was never therehttps://example.com/blog/022026-08-12T09:00:00Z2026-08-12T09:00:00ZSofia MarchettiA 210 m² townhouse in the old town, listed for eleven months by two agencies. The top floor did not appear on any permit issued since 1904.Staged payments on off-plan purchaseshttps://example.com/blog/032026-08-07T09:00:00Z2026-08-07T09:00:00ZMarc OliveiraThe three clauses that protect a buyer when a delivery date slips — and the one developers quietly remove from the standard contract.Issue 14 — the quarter in thirty-eight citieshttps://example.com/blog/042026-08-06T09:00:00Z2026-08-06T09:00:00ZLéa DuboisMedians barely moved, but the discount sellers accepted widened with every price band. The full spread, city by city and street by street.Restoration grants in the historic centreshttps://example.com/blog/052026-07-29T09:00:00Z2026-07-29T09:00:00ZMarco RizzoUp to thirty per cent of the works covered in Palermo and Porto. What qualifies, what does not, and how long the paperwork really takes.Eight metres that cost forty thousandhttps://example.com/blog/062026-07-24T09:00:00Z2026-07-24T09:00:00ZElena MarínThe deed said a hundred and four square metres. The laser said ninety-six. What happens between those two numbers and a signature.Notary practice across four countries, comparedhttps://example.com/blog/072026-07-18T09:00:00Z2026-07-18T09:00:00ZNuno CardosoWho checks what, what it costs, and where a buyer is genuinely protected rather than merely charged.Where the days-to-offer number actually comes fromhttps://example.com/blog/082026-07-11T09:00:00Z2026-07-11T09:00:00ZKasia WronaPortals count from the day a listing is republished. We count from first publication, which is why our forty-one looks worse than their nineteen.Two lenders, one file, forty-two basis pointshttps://example.com/blog/092026-07-03T09:00:00Z2026-07-03T09:00:00ZRita AlmeidaWe sent the same complete application to eleven lenders. The spread on identical paperwork was wider than a year of rate movement.What a roof actually costs in the old townhttps://example.com/blog/102026-06-27T09:00:00Z2026-06-27T09:00:00ZMarco RizzoNine completed jobs, invoices seen, from a patch repair to a full replacement with the beams out.The charge nobody mentionedhttps://example.com/blog/112026-06-19T09:00:00Z2026-06-19T09:00:00ZSofia MarchettiA clean-looking apartment with an eleven-year-old community debt attached to the unit rather than the owner.Energy certificates: the letter and the billhttps://example.com/blog/122026-06-12T09:00:00Z2026-06-12T09:00:00ZKasia WronaWe compared the rating on file with a year of real consumption for two hundred flats. The letter is a weak predictor.