Laura Hamilton has shared her top tips for buying abroad after purchasing her dream house in Spain.
The A Place In The Sun host, 43, bought a house in the heart of Pollença back in August and has been renovating the six-bedroom townhouse ever since.
Drawing on her own experience, Laura has now shared the lesson she has learnt along the way after completing a ‘big part of the demolition.’
She is currently working to reconfigure the ‘higgledy-piggledy’ house into a four bedroom home with a courtyard garden.
Laura explained how she has forced to change her plans along way and has ended up paying more than she expected.
In an interview with The Sun, she detailed: ‘You need a lot of patience because you have to follow the rules and regulations.
Laura Hamilton has shared her top tips for buying abroad after purchasing her dream house in Spain
The A Place In The Sun host, 43, bought a house in the heart of Pollença back in August and has been renovating the six-bedroom townhouse ever since
She continued: ‘You need to do a lot of research before doing a project overseas. What I will say is like any property you buy, you should get a survey.
‘Something else that I would say is to get the right mortgage. There are some amazing mortgages available out there.’
Laura said that due to her three per cent mortgage which is fixed for 25 years, she didn’t have to ‘sink all my money’ into the project.
The presenter also urged anyone thinking of buying a house abroad to ‘do it now’ as she regrets not doing it sooner.
Laura ended up knocking down most of the house in order to create her dream ‘plunge pool’ as a centre piece to the holiday house.
Taking to Instagram at the end of November, she posted an update for her fans, writing: ‘LOOK HOW FAR I’VE COME…
‘Back in August I purchased a holiday home in Mallorca. But of course me being me, it had to be a ‘renovation project’. It’s a mᴀssive undertaking and I am loving the process and of course the transformation.
‘I decided not to post lots about my renovation on this page as I know not everyone is interested so I decided to create a separate page with more content on the project over on @myrenovationinthesun.’
Drawing on her own experience, Laura has now shared the lesson she has learnt along the way after completing a ‘big part of the demolition’
The presenter urged anyone thinking of buying a house abroad to ‘do it now’ as she regrets not doing it sooner
She has ended up knocking down most of the home in order to create her dream ‘plunge pool’ as a centre piece to the holiday house
Laura shared how it was tough to gut the house as it is on a small lane in the middle of the town – and it took a team of eight people three days to empty everything
She has also gutted the old fashioned bathroom, downstairs bedroom and kitchen to make way for a more modern design
Laura shared how it was tough to gut the house as it is on a small lane in the middle of the town – and it took a team of eight people three days to empty everything.
The whole back of the house had been demolished and the roof terrace has gone in order to create a space for a courtyard garden with a plunge pool.
She has also gutted the old fashioned bathroom, downstairs bedroom and kitchen to make way for a more modern design.
Laura has been one of the rotating presenters on Channel 4’s lifestyle series A Place In The Sun since 2012.
She began her rise to fame in 2003, appearing on popular children’s programme Fun Song Factory on CITV – alongside JLS’ Aston Merrygold.
Laura also presented the Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards and was in talks to host The X Factor accompaniment show The Xtra Factor.
Since becoming a firm favourite on A Place In The Sun, Laura has appeared on Dancing On Ice, where she came second.