Taken from todays Round Town News. Full article on their e-paper. But for the grace of .........
The economic downturn and property slump has taken an unexpected turn for residents of the Corvera Golf urbanisation in Corvera, Murcia, as the developer takes the decision to rent out high quality resort properties to disadvantaged families at bargain basement prices.
“A promotor offers 150 homes, with or without furniture, for the low rent of 150 euros” was the headline in Spanish language daily, La Verdad, the first indication that any of the 400 expat residents of the resort had that the new owner of the resort had decided to offer residences for public rental, “The promotor, Corvera Golf and Country Club is offering 100 to 150 homes to families evicted for non-payment of their mortgages, long-term unemployed with children, women who have suffered from domestic violence, and young people under the age of 30 who are unable to become independent due to being unemployed or having low incomes.”
The resort “changed hands” in December, although residents complain that they have been unable to ascertain clearly who now owns the properties on the resort, indeed, the first thing they knew about the existence of Sr Antonio Rizo, named as the promotor of Corvera Golf in the paper, was in this article. The paper says that Corvera Golf, who “acquired the resort in December ” is not “worried that there could be a conflict between the tenants of this social housing and the remaining residents, who are few in number, and mainly English and Scandinavians, “ the paper said.