Costa Brava
Alt Empordà, town by town.
The comarca where the tramuntana decides your maintenance. From Portbou to L'Escala, taking in Empuriabrava and the Roses estates, almost all the property is seasonal and much of it French-owned.
Regular visits, a protocol inspection and a photo report in every town of the comarca. From €69/month, no lock-in.
Towns in this comarca (15 towns)
Each has its own page, with what gets watched there in particular.
- Portbou→A border village stacked on a hillside above the sea. Many owners live in France, so the house is alone for months while the tramuntana works on shutters, chimneys and downpipes with nobody there to notice.
- Colera→A small village that fills up in August and switches off for the rest of the year. Ten months shut means damp, dry traps and stale air, and the handful of year-round neighbours have no reason to know your flat.
- Llançà→A long-established French second-home town between the harbour, Grifeu and Cap Ras. Salt attacks every piece of exterior joinery and the tramuntana tears awnings off: fixings not checked before winter get paid for in March.
- El Port de la Selva→Whitewashed village houses packed side by side, and the harshest tramuntana on the coast. Roofs, skylights and shutters are the weak points, and the whole winter passes with nobody inside.
- La Selva de Mar→A stone village inland, full of restored houses with thick walls and services renewed in stages. Damp rises through the wall when a house is never aired, and none of that is visible from the street.
- Cadaqués→Slate and lime houses with a single mountain road in. Extreme salt exposure, small windows and a lot of refurbishment over old structure: here the inspection is roof and joinery, and absence shows fast.
- Roses→Hillside estates — Santa Margarida, Puig Rom, Mas Fumats — with many French owners. Idle pools, retaining walls and water tanks are what matters, and vehicle access to the upper plots gets awkward in heavy rain.
- Castelló d'Empúries→In Empuriabrava the water is at your front door. Moorings, canal walls and garages below sea level need a different check from an ordinary house, and a moored boat does not look after itself.
- Palau-saverdera→On the slope of the Serra de Rodes, looking over the gulf, with sloping plots. Drainage rules here: run-off, channels and walls. Most are seasonal houses with a pool that spend the winter covered.
- Pau→A small village at the foot of Cap de Creus, with village houses and a few restored farmhouses. Old structures and constant wind: maintenance here is roof, joint and shutter, not technology.
- Vilajuïga→Village houses and farmhouses with services that go back decades. In a home opened twice a year, an old consumer unit or a cracked downpipe takes months to surface if nobody goes in.
- Garriguella→Inland Empordà, with garden and orchard plots that grow on their own. Without visits the vegetation swallows the boundary and the house disappears from the road — exactly what a burglar is looking for.
- Peralada→Golf, country houses and a historic centre. Properties with gardens, automatic irrigation and pools all running unattended: an irrigation fault shows up on the bill, and by then a month has gone.
- Sant Pere Pescador→Low houses and seasonal accommodation near the Fluvià. The area lives for the summer: from October to May almost everything is shut, and river damp and sand get in through any poor seal.
- L'Escala→Riells and Montgó are full of seasonal houses, many French-owned. The tramuntana dismantles awnings and blinds and salt eats ironmongery; in winter there are whole streets without a single light on.
What repeats across this comarca
The features that come up most across its towns, and what we do about each one.
Tramuntana wind
The north wind dismantles awnings, shutters and aerials. We check the fixings and stow everything before each serious episode.
Empty all winter
Months with the house shut and the blinds down. Dry traps, damp and stale air are the guaranteed result if nobody goes in to air it.
French owners
Much of the property here is managed from France. We work in French and the report is delivered in the owner's language.
Old town
Terraced houses, narrow streets and small roofs. A leak travels through two homes before anyone sees it.
Scattered estate
With no permanent neighbour nearby, there is nobody to raise the alarm. The scheduled round is literally the only way anything gets noticed.
Salt air
Salt seizes blind runners, hinges and locks. We check them, grease them, and tell you when a window will not take another winter.
Plans
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