For those of you who love design...!

The White Villa Furniture Design!

White or...?

Normally, this would be madness to have everything in white, especially, as we had planned to rent out our villa when we were not there.

However, it was important to us that we had a home we felt we could live in and not a showpiece or an “anything-will-do” approach to furnishing our villa.

Have they got a track record?

Developers come in all shapes and sizes and can be either local or international. Most will be based in the country where they are developing property. Simply put, property developers purchase land then draw up plans as to how they are going to develop it to maximise their profits. They then market their projects to potential buyers. Neither of this matters much except their track record.

track record is important...

Time to relax?

When all is done and dusted and your villa has been completed and you have received a completion certificate from the developer and the keys have been handed to you, you might think that, at last, you can relax stretched out on your designer sun lounger in the sun with a well deserved tropical cocktail in your hand looking at the view and letting your mind wander.

No, not just yet!

There is one last question you need to ask yourself.

Villa owners get together

Once construction has finished and the developers have left the site you will need someone to maintain your villa. Landscaping and your swimming pool will need maintenance on a regular basis, whether you are there or not.

Some of the larger developers may offer to manage the development on completion and capitalise on restaurants and spas they have build as part of the development. They would see these as profit centres and run them as such. They would also make money by charging the villa owners for maintaining their villas and in addition offer other services such as repair and maintenance.

One word on finishing on time...

Do not expect the construction of your villa to finish on the date the developer tells you. There are always delays

The developer is not intentionally trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Delays do happen for one reason or another, such as a delay in the supply chain of materials or some of the workforce not returning to work after a major public holiday, also unexpected weather conditions can affect progress.