New David Lloyd Resort in Spain offers shared ownership homes for as little as £24,000

A new David Lloyd Resort opening this month in south-east Spain is offering holiday homes for sale on a shared-ownership basis at prices as low as £24,000 with a potential for investment benefit.

The location is the Desert Springs Resort in south-east Spain, Europe’s only international award-winning luxury family resort and championship desert golf course in the Almanzora region of Almeria.

Former British tennis ace David Lloyd earmarked Desert Springs as an ideal location for the expansion of his business during a visit in July last year. In a radio interview with Jon Gaunt of the Sun online radio station Sun Talk, he said that he had been encouraged to visit Desert Springs by his friend Sir Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham who owns a holiday home there. David praised what he described as “a great resort” with good year-round weather and easy access from the UK.

Now, through The David Lloyd Resort at Desert Springs, properties can be purchased on a shared-ownership basis for the first time in the resort. They range from two-bedroom apartments to three-bedroom townhouses set in mature gardens. Some of the properties overlook the resort’s 72 par 18-hole Indiana golf course designed by former Great Britain and Ireland Golf Team Captain Peter McEvoy who was inspired by the desert courses of Arizona and California.

Simon Coaker, sales and marketing manager at Desert Springs, says that David Lloyd’s ownership scheme is attractive because it is based on a shared asset purchase between a set number of individuals.

“David Lloyd Resorts uses this principle to provide individuals with the opportunity to share in, and enjoy, exclusive property ownership that may previously have been unobtainable as a sole investor,” he said.
 
Explaining how the scheme operates, Nick Lawrence, sales and marketing director of David Lloyd Resorts, said: “Each property is divided into 13 shares, and sold at three different price levels which are based on seasonality. Shared owners hold a share in a chosen property based on the amount of equity invested, but all share equal occupancy rights. Each share entitles the owner to four weeks usage each year. These are two weeks reserved from a choice of price bands and two ‘freedom’ weeks enabling owners to explore the flexibility of the David Lloyd Resorts exchange programme by staying in our properties in Phuket, Canada, the West Indies, Turkey and Cyprus.”

He added: “Our business plan for Desert Springs is to sell each property after 10 years and, at that stage, return the proceeds to the 13 owners in a manner which is proportionate to their original equity investment.”
Among resort facilities which appealed to David Lloyd during his visit last year, and which property owners and visitors to Desert Springs can enjoy, is the Tennis Academy which includes two brand new tennis courts, two new paddle courts and a beach volley court. The tennis and paddle courts are finished with surfaces designed to give high bounce and add to the ease and pleasure of the game.

Also open is the Sierra Sports and Fitness Club with facilities for football, cricket and a gymnasium. Both the football pitch – inaugurated by Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Geoff Hurst, with its floodlights, shower and changing facilities, and referee changing room – and the cricket pitches are popular with school and clubs for pre-season warm weather training.
Places to eat at Desert Springs include the resort’s international award-winning El Torrente Restaurant and the family restaurant and bar within the Crocodile Club with its pools, sun lawns and sand play bunkers

The climate at Desert Springs

Desert Springs takes it name from the region’s desert microclimate which is unique in Europe. It has the warmest winter weather on the continent with an annual average of more than nine hours of daily sunshine and maximum daily temperatures of between 16°C (60°F) and 30°C (86°F) throughout the year. Annual rainfall is less than 200 mm. The Almanzora’s coastal waters are among the cleanest and warmest in Europe, attracting both fish and diving enthusiasts.

Getting there from the UK

The Almanzora region is easy to reach, thanks to three international airports. The current journey time from Almeria International Airport to Desert Springs is around 50 minutes by road. Other international airports are at Murcia – 70 minutes on the toll motorway direct to the Almanzora Valley – and Alicante which is less than two hours by road.

The growing popularity of Fractional Ownership across Europe has led to some degree of confusion in the differences between Fractional Property Ownership and Timeshare.
In Europe we like to think of fractional being shared ownership, whereas in some other jurisdictions the word encompasses all elements of property ownership from vacation clubs to timeshare.

Fractional ownership is where the owners i.e. four to 12 people own a fraction of the property asset, this should not be confused with timeshare as the two are completely different. In a timeshare scheme, you only ever own the right to occupy. You never own any of the property. In essence all you are really doing is paying for your holidays in advance, often with expensive marketing, management and insurance fees on top.

With fractional you are purchasing a freehold property asset and should you wish to sell then any profit will be yours. Fractional properties are subject to the same market forces as freehold properties and, because they are located on luxury resorts with full facilities on hand, your asset is likely to rise in value.

The growth in popularity of fractional has led some timeshare companies to call their products fractional ownership, when in reality they are no such thing.

The legal structure of timeshare and fractional ownership is completely different. With timeshare you do not own the title to the property and your investment seldom has any resale value. Fractional ownership schemes give you legal title to your percentage of the property and you are free to sell at a profit.

Fractional

• Own property for 4-12 weeks
• Pay % of purchase price
• Pay % of running costs
• Has resale value
• Own bricks & mortar
• Own % of freehold of the property  

Timeshare

• Right to use only
• Ave. 2 weeks - very expensive
• Very high maintenance
• No resale value
• Do not own bricks & mortar
• Own time only

The legal structure for fractional ownership has been developed over a number of years by numerous Fractional  Companies to ensure it is completely safe and secure.
Fractional ownership properties are available from just £25,000 for a twelfth share through Dolphin Golf Property. Click Fractions to Buy to see the range of properties available and to see how you can benefit from Fractional Ownership with Dolphin Golf Property.

Also see Freddie 4 Ball section where the Fractional Ownership price starts from £6,250.

David Lloyd Resorts Officially launches 15 September 2009

Fractional Ownership property available in many exotic locations, Thailand, Canada, Morocco to name but a few.

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Polaris World have announced that they are set to host the Davis Cup semi final between Spain & Israel at La Torre Golf Resort scheduled for 18 – 20 September 2009.

http://www.daviscup.com/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=16074

Excellent news for owners on La Torre as this raises the profile of the Resort and paves the way for future events.

As you can see from our photos preparation for the event is underway for the courts and stadium with a capacity for 12,000, together with the practice courts and parking.

Further details:-

http://www.daviscup.com/ties/tie.asp?tie=100012247

Festival of Carthaginians and Romans
From 18th till 27th September

Cartagena is a beautiful Mediterranean city on a unique setting of south eastern Spain,  Mastienos, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, all left their historical traces and forged, with the passing of the centuries, the idiosyncrasy of contemporary Cartagena natives.

It is a bright and cheerful city where the sun shines for more than 300 days a year. Its gentle weather, with mild temperatures in winter, and the beautiful, rich variety of its landscapes make Cartagena a place of extraordinary tourist appeal, where one can also find interesting ruins, XVIII-century castles and fortresses, as well as late XIX and early XX century modernist buildings.

Cartagena lives within history, but history is also alive in our city, so intensely that our people played a leading role in the events which took place in this region more than 2200 years ago, turning them into a unique festival in our country: Carthaginians and Romans.

This festival is based on the second Punic War and on characters such as Hannibal and his winning rival, Cornelius Scipio. Celebrations begin with the foundation of Qart-Hadast by Asdrubal in 223 B.C. and end with the Roman victory in 209 B.C. For ten days, all the heroic deeds which took place during the years of the Carthaginian rule, as well as the defeat and invasion by the Roman Empire, are performed and lived in an unparalleled atmosphere by natives and foreigners alike. Troops and legions represent the scenes of events based on the city history and perform grand parades in which the costumes and armaments one would only expect to find in film productions are there on the streets. In the second fortnight of September, Cartagena and its people get inside history and revive it for ten magnificent days in which the heroic deeds of Carthage and Rome are remembered. The scenes are usually staged at the very place in which the event took place in ancient times.

The Camp

In a huge setting, the 50 groups (more than 5.500 actors) which embody Carthaginians and Romans decorate the camp and put up bars open to all the visitors. In this way, the camp becomes a big city set in ancient times where the art and symbols of Rome and Carthage, Greece, Iberia and Phoenicia are found all around. Joy, hustle and entertainment are the stars of these nights where one can eat and drink with Scipio himself, share a wedding cake with Hannibal, witness the kidnap of a beautiful damsel or the invasion of enemy tents by Carthaginian and Roman warriors. The Carthaginians and Romans Festival typifies the way of thinking and acting of a city which has managed to blend present and past to playfully live what it was.

Golf courses available

Roda Golf: (18 holes)
La Torre: (18 holes)
El Valle: (18 holes)
Hacienda Riquelme: (18 holes)
Mar Menor: (9 holes)

The best beaches

Los Alcazares has a 9-kilometre stretch of sand with a 5-kilometre promenade close to the beach. All of its five beaches have been awarded the “blue flag” from the European Union and the “Q” of tourist quality.

Polaris World

Ruth Lorenzo - X Factor Finalist - returns home to Polaris World for charity concert in aid of Polaris World Foundation to support projects in Africa.

Ruth Lorenzo in concert 28 August 2009 23.00
Polaris World La Torre Golf Resort

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Polaris World Front Line Beach Properties, stunning location & walking distance of some of the best beaches on the Mar Menor.

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10 remaining 2 bedroom apartments discounted by 30% from €120,000

Polaris World plan to start building work on these in early 2010 and completion will take place 18 months from that date, completion Summer 2011.

Payment terms are:

€3,000 deposit
25% payment with contract (within 30 days)
15% payment 9 months (from reservation date)
60% on completion Mortgages available subject to status

Contact us now by email lisa@dolphingolfproperty.com

Telephone (0044) 0117 377 1626 or

Text 07748 961965 or 07879 838447  if you would like to discuss this further.

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