Who hasn’t dreamed of their ideal house? With a garden, swimming pool, open living room, natural light, terrace with barbecue, unique interior design, and a thousand other ideas! Having the house of your dreams can become a reality if you build a house from scratch, a custom-made house that meets all your needs and with a fully customized budget. If you start from an already built house, there are certain disadvantages to take into account. This would involve various touches, reforms or adaptations, to turn it into the ideal home for you and your family. So, today we present you another option, to design and build it from scratch, with the help of a 360º professional team.
At VadeCasa i+ we offer a global service for your home, from the first plans to the last drop of paint. Our team will accompany you throughout the process, working with the best qualities and finishes, without economic margins of developers, real estate agents or third parties.
Once you have made your decision, you should know what are the essential steps you have to follow to build your house completely from scratch. Let’s get started!
1. The Study and the purchase of the plot
This is the first and most important step to start defining your project. The land where you will locate your home will mark the design and finishes of your house. There are several factors that you must take into account when buying a plot for your house, from the orientation to the legislation and qualification of the land in an urban plan. This will determine if that plot is suitable for your ideal house project or, on the contrary, you will have to look for another alternative. At this point it is crucial to investigate what can be built on that land, according to the municipal ordinances and all the guidelines that appear in the Land Registry.
For this reason, our technicians and architects will check in detail that the characteristics of the chosen land meet all the requirements to build your home.
2. The design and the architectural project
It is essential that you choose a good architect, professional and trustworthy, to design your project and respect the requirements established for the land. The architect’s design must meet your expectations for the house, but also the technical conditions of the plot.
Our architectural firm will be in charge of drafting the basic project and the execution project of the house. This team will also be responsible for reviewing all the legislature in terms of health and safety, creating a tight budget, establishing the phases of the project, etc. Once the project is finished and verified, we must move on to the application and granting of licenses to start building your house.
3. Building permit
This is the permit that the Town Hall will grant you in order to build your house. Once the municipal architect and his team have verified that your project complies with the regulations of the land and all the conditions required to carry out your project, they will grant you the building permit. From this license, all the subsequent permits related to the execution plan of the house, that is to say, during the construction period, will depend on it.
Here you have the direct links where you can apply for the building licenses of some of the most important city councils of the province of Tarragona: Tarragona city council, Salou city council, Reus city council, Cambrils city council, Vilaseca city council and Valls city council.
If you contract VadeCasa i+‘s 360º home service, our team of professionals will take care of all these procedures, so that you don’t have to worry about anything.
4. Funding
Here we talk about the mortgage. In most cases, the construction of the house will be carried out thanks to mortgage financing. Once you have a verified project and the corresponding building permit, as the future owner you will be able to sign the agreement with the corresponding bank. The conditions of this financing will depend on many factors, both the land in question, the type of housing project and the personal conditions of the clients.
This is the financing process that takes place in most housing projects, but there may be variations depending on the conditions of each client.
5. Construction of the house
Once you have all the permits, we get down to work. In the case of a self-promotion house , the owner will be the promoter of the house. This means that you will share the legal responsibilities with the construction company. For this reason, the relationship and trust towards the company that will carry out your project is very important. With the 360º service of VadeCasa i+, there will be no external promoters or intermediaries, but we will take care of and advise you in all the phases of the project, with our services of architecture, constructions, reforms and real estate. The commitment with the client and his final satisfaction are the basis of all our projects.
6. Work certifications
This process consists of setting the phases of the construction, so that an architect, technical architect or surveyor can regularly evaluate that everything stated in the work certifications is being complied with. This will be done until the final certification, where the construction phase will be considered completed for all purposes.
7. End of work
Once the works are finished, it is time to register the work in the land registry. When you have completed the registration, together with the final certification, you must apply for the first occupancy license at the Town Hall. When the municipal architect gives the go-ahead, you will be able to contract the household supplies, and start your new life in the house of your dreams!
