The cumulation of all your marketing efforts will be a viewing. This tends to be a defining moment and one fraught with understandable tension. However, the viewing of your property is often looked at very differently by potential buyers.

There's no way of selling your home in Spain without spending money. As a bare minimum, you'll pay fees to the notary and probably some capital gains tax. Whether you advertise the property yourself or use an estate agent, attracting buyers will probably be the most significant cost involved.

During a boom, as a seller, you can afford to be careless about how you present your home. Buyers seem ever present and your main concerns tend to revolve around the vaguely unwelcome disturbance of viewers wandering around your home and whether you have set your sale price high enough.

The relationship between sellers and estate agents can be somewhat complicated. Both parties need each other but few people would admit to liking agents. Indeed, in opinion polls, agents are often rated alongside politicians - and are therefore firmly at the bottom of the list of people considered popular and trustworthy!

Is any property below €50,000 a cheap Spanish property? Are cheap Spanish properties only to be found at auction or as bank repossessions? How much below market value does a Spanish property need to be to be considered cheap?