Retirement relocation to Spain
“Relocation service” means very different things depending on who is selling it. Here is exactly what ours covers for someone retiring here, what it costs, who does each part, and where the boundaries are.
Retirement relocation to Spain, step by step§
Coordinated by one person who knows your case, not a ticket queue. The two things we put first — tax and your will — are the two that almost nobody else does first.
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Feasibility
Route, healthcare entitlement, tax exposure, and an honest view on whether and when to do it.
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02
Tax and estate plan
Modelled before you sell anything. Includes lump sums and the timing of your house sale.
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Documents
An exact list, sequenced so nothing expires before your appointment.
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04
Appointment
Consulate or extranjería. We watch daily, book the first workable slot, and rehearse it with you.
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Home
Search, viewings, negotiation, lawyer, survey, notary, taxes, keys, utilities.
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The first year
Padrón, bank, healthcare, driving licence, Spanish will, first tax return.
- You Only you can do it — we tell you exactly what and when.
- SpainEase We do it, and you can see it happening.
- Partner A named, qualified professional: lawyer, tax adviser, agent.
- Administration A Spanish authority decides. Nobody can promise this one.
What retirement relocation to Spain costs§
Published starting prices. Your exact figure is fixed in writing after the feasibility review, and it does not move unless your circumstances do.
Residency
The visa or registration, done properly.
From€1,490 per household
- Feasibility and route decision
- Immigration lawyer on your file
- Non-lucrative visa or EU registration
- Insurance a consulate accepts, or your S1
- NIE, padrón, TIE, digital certificate
- Appointments booked and attended
- Government fees, apostilles and sworn translations
Settled
Residency, tax, will, home and arrival.
From€4,900 per household
- Everything in Residency
- Tax adviser: what Spain will take, modelled first
- Spanish will and election of your national law
- Buyer’s adviser for your home
- Lawyer, survey, notary and purchase taxes
- Bank, utilities, healthcare, driving licence
- Twelve months of one named coordinator
Every year after
One number to call, indefinitely.
From€590 a year
- Annual tax return, and Modelo 720 if it applies
- Renewals tracked before they expire
- Healthcare admin and appointments
- Any official letter, read and explained
- Two hours of coordinator time a month
Government fees, apostilles, sworn translations, lawyers’ and tax advisers’ fees are passed to you at cost with the invoice.
What retirement relocation to Spain includes§
| What has to happen | Who does it | Typical time |
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| Coordination, plan and deadlines | SpainEase | included |
| All administrative paperwork and appointments | SpainEase | included |
| Insurance arranged, or S1 established | SpainEase | included |
| Property search and negotiation | SpainEase | Settled |
| Immigration legal work | Partner | included in Residency |
| Tax modelling and annual returns | Partner | Settled |
| Spanish will before a notary | Partner | Settled |
| Property conveyancing and survey | Partner | quoted at cost |
| Ordering documents in your own country | You | your cost |
| Government fees and translations | You | at cost |
| Attending your own biometrics appointment | You | unavoidable |
| The decision on your application | Administration | not ours to control |
If you are an EU pensioner already here, with an address, comfortable in Spanish and in no hurry, you can do much of the Residency package yourself. We will tell you that on the call. We would rather run a small honest business than a large one built on people who did not need us.
Retirement relocation to Spain: common questions§
Do we pay before or after?
A deposit to start, the balance at agreed milestones. Third-party costs are paid at cost with the receipt. If the feasibility review concludes that you should not proceed, we refund it.
What if the visa is refused?
We tell you honestly at the feasibility stage if we think a file is weak, and we would rather lose the work than take a case that will fail. If a refusal happens anyway, our fee covers the work done and the lawyer advises on appeal or on a second application. Nobody can guarantee an outcome, and any company that does is not being straight with you.
Do you work outside the Costa Blanca?
Yes for everything on paper — visas, residency, tax, wills — wherever in Spain you settle. What we cannot do everywhere is turn up in person, so for property and in-person appointments we are strongest between Dénia and Altea.
We are already here and it has gone wrong. Can you help?
Often, and it is a common call. Half-finished paperwork, insurance that turned out not to qualify, no Spanish will, a first tax return nobody filed. Tell us where you got to, including the mistakes.
Do you take commission from insurers or estate agents?
No. We are paid by you, which is the only way we can tell you not to buy a house or not to take a policy. If that ever changes for a specific recommendation, you will be told before you act on it.
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