Villa renovations in Valencia: interior, outdoor space and pool as one project

As an indicative market reference, the interior and the building envelope usually land between €700–€1,100 per m² for a mid-range renovation and €1,100–€1,700 per m² or more for a high-end project with home automation, a heat pump and fine materials. The outdoor space — terrace, garden and pool — is quoted separately. As a worked example, a 200 m² mid-range villa would be somewhere around €140,000–€220,000 for interior and envelope, with the outdoor space on top. After the site visit you get a fixed written quote, itemised, and that is the figure you pay.

Almost always the same short list: the consumer unit and the wiring, insulation on the façade and the roof, the external joinery, the waterproofing on the terrace or flat roof, and the original pool — the pipework and the plant far more often than the shell itself. Beyond those five, it depends entirely on how the house has been looked after, and nobody can tell you from a photograph. We come out, look at those five things, and a figure goes on paper afterwards rather than before.

Yes, and it is one of the things we are known for. Pool, terrace, porch and garden are coordinated with the interior work and sequenced so nothing is dug twice or lifted after it has been laid. The outdoor space is a separate line inside the same quote, so you can see exactly what it costs. The build itself is described on our concrete pool construction page.

Because a villa’s services, access routes and paving cross between inside and out. Plan the interior on one side and the pool on the other and you end up lifting a finished terrace to run a pipe, or cutting a trench across a garden planted a fortnight earlier. Designing it together avoids those overruns and delivers the indoor-outdoor flow that actually transforms the house.

It depends on the floor area and the scope, but a medium-sized villa with interior and outdoor work usually runs 12–20 weeks. The proposal comes with a phased programme and dates we can keep to, and we sequence interior, envelope and outdoor space so the whole house is handed over together rather than in instalments.

Most villa renovations need either a building licence or a responsible declaration, depending on the scope and on the town hall, and the pool almost always goes in on a file of its own. We prepare and submit the paperwork and tell you what each document says and roughly how long it typically takes. Requirements vary from one town hall to the next, so the specifics are always confirmed with yours.

Usually yes, but it is a different kind of job. Enclosing a terrace or adding a room changes the built volume of the house, so it goes to the town hall on its own file rather than riding along with the renovation, and it needs drawings from a technician. One honest warning: obtaining the licence and finishing the work does not by itself update your title deed or the Land Registry entry. That is a separate procedure, and it is worth raising with your lawyer before you start.

It is a common find on older estates: a porch closed in, a room added under the terrace, a pool that never appeared on any file. What matters first is what the work actually is and when it was done, and that is assessed by a technician — an aparejador (building surveyor) or an architect — who inspects it and reports. From there the town hall decides what can be regularised and what cannot. We are builders, not lawyers: we will tell you plainly what we can see on site and put you in front of the right technician, but the legal side is theirs.

It depends on the scope. In a full renovation of the whole house it is rarely comfortable, but a villa is easier than a flat: you can work floor by floor, keep part of the house liveable and leave the outdoor space until the end. We look at that with you on the visit and plan the phases around it.

Yes. We renovate villas most weeks on the estates of La Eliana, where we are based, and in La Cañada, San Antonio de Benagéber, Bétera, Godella, Rocafort and Llíria, as well as in Valencia city. We know the house types of each estate, the way the plots were laid out and how each town hall handles this kind of work.

Four things, in this order: insulation on the roof and the façade; external joinery with a thermal break and double glazing; real shade where the sun lands in the afternoon, whether that is a pergola, a porch or planting; and then an air-source heat pump with underfloor heating or ducted air. A villa loses far more than a flat because so much of it touches the outside, which is exactly why the gain is bigger here. We will not put a percentage on it, because the honest answer depends on your house — we will tell you which of the four is worth doing first in yours.

Yes. Home automation, heat pump, underfloor heating, natural stone, joinery made to measure and interior design drawn for the house. The difficulty in those projects is never the material: it is having eight trades on site at once and still handing over a flawless finish. That is what the single site manager is there for.

We answer for the work carried out and for the materials, under current Spanish law. And because the people on site are our own team rather than a rotating cast of subcontractors, anything that needs adjusting afterwards — inside or out — we come back and sort ourselves, instead of passing you on to somebody else.

Valencia city, La Eliana and the towns of the Camp de Túria and l’Horta. Most of our villa work lands in La Cañada, San Antonio de Benagéber, Bétera, Rocafort and Godella, and we also build in Llíria, La Pobla de Vallbona, Paterna, Riba-roja de Túria, Moncada and Alboraya.