A guide to understanding —and deciding— before you look at a development.
Buying new-build isn't buying a finished house. It's stepping into a process that begins long before the walls exist: a planning framework that sets out what can be built, a project that draws it, a developer who decides what comes to market and, finally, a specific home with its price and its date. Almost no listing tells you the whole of it.
This one does, so you can look at any Palamós development with your own judgement and enough context.
The Baix Empordà isn't a city, and it's worth bearing that in mind before you look at a development. Rather than focusing on floor area alone, it pays to weigh the questions that can move a home's value: the kind of demand in each part of the town, what people buy for, and how it might behave the day you come to sell.
We don't take brochure answers at face value: we test them against concrete information before passing them on.
Every development sits inside a planning instrument, and that's where what can actually exist is decided. In Palamós, the area known as PAU-09 «El Figuerar» is classified as non-consolidated urban land, zoned for two-storey single-family housing.
It helps not to blur things that are different, because each has its own document and its own date. One is the approval of the plan. Another is the reparcelling —the division of the plots—, approved and registered in its day. Another is the site servicing works. And another is the building licence for each home. An area being approved doesn't mean it has been serviced, and its being serviced doesn't mean a specific home is for sale.
In planning terms, the area allows a maximum of thirty single-family homes. That is a planning capacity —what the rules permit—, not a catalogue of homes. The difference matters more than it looks.
A good development stands up to awkward questions. These are the ones we ask before we recommend anything:
Where any of these has no answer on paper, it means we don't yet have enough evidence to treat it as confirmed. Knowing that in good time is also part of deciding well.
When you read any development, keep four levels apart:
A common mistake is to confuse the first with the last: presenting a planning maximum as if it were available homes. We keep them apart, because each answers a different question.
All of this has a real example in Palamós: the PAU-09 «El Figuerar» area, a set of two-storey terraced houses, developed by URBRAVA. We know it closely because it's the operation we structure and market on that land: Arrels de Palamós.
See the development: Arrels de Palamós →
A development isn't decided from a listing, but with context. Our intelligence layer, BIDROOM, places an opportunity where it matters: in its market and in your decision. It doesn't replace a valuation or invent figures; it orders what is known —and what isn't yet— so you can decide with a clear head.
And when the moment comes to speak to someone, a person looks after you. Sales are handled by Selecta Realty (BCN Select), a registered estate agent, and an adviser picks up once you have enough context to move forward.
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