Ooh, do we have a treat for you! I just stumbled across this video on YouTube and if you have any interest in rural Asturias and country properties here it’s a must-watch.

It’s been over 10 years since the BBC filmed Escape to the Continent here in Asturias, visiting (amongst others) two properties that we were marketing for sale at that time. It was a fun week, helping to shepherd the crew around from one remote Asturian country property to another! I got to meet the charming presenter Nicki Chapman but funnily enough, thanks to weird BBC rules on non promotion of businesses, they wouldn’t let me meet the actual house hunters!! However they did get in touch with me after filming finished as in the end the property they chose was one of ours. They never did actually buy it but I think that is often the case with these kinds of shows.

Watching this takes me right back, especially with the poor, blurry quality of the reproduction on Youtube it feels like it’s several decades ago! The price points they are citing are certainly nostalgic. I think their overview of pricing back then was a little off the mark in any case, and of course they were translating prices into Sterling from euros, but really it does bring home just how much prices have risen over the last decade, with the last couple of years seeing an ever more heated increase as Asturias and northern Spain have become more and more popular with both national and international buyers.

Anyway, I just thought I’d leave the video here for you so you can take an explore across a few different styles of rural Asturian properties and a few different areas. But yes, ignore the prices!!