Turnkey renovations in Valencia, with a single point of contact and a fixed price

It means you buy the renovation from one company that takes on the lot — drawings, town hall paperwork, the build, the finishes and the handover — and gives you back a house you can live in. It is not a different kind of building work. It is a different way of buying it: one contract, one fixed price, one programme, and the whole business of keeping the trades in order stops being yours.

The building work can be word for word the same. What changes is the arrangement. A full home renovation describes what gets renewed in the property; turnkey describes how the job is bought and run. In practice a good many full home renovations are contracted turnkey, because the owner wants one signature and one telephone number rather than five of each.

It is fixed, and it is fixed in the contract rather than in a conversation. It moves in only two cases: you decide to add something, or a genuine hidden problem appears — old wiring inside a wall, a floor that will not take the finish you chose. In either case the item is costed and approved by you in writing before it is built. Nothing gets added quietly and nothing appears for the first time on the final invoice.

As a market guide it runs from roughly €400–€600 per m² for a refresh of finishes up to €900–€1,400 per m² or more at the top end, with the layout changed and every service renewed. Buying it turnkey does not make the work dearer; it puts order into how it is bought. The figure that binds us is the itemised one we put in writing after the site visit.

It includes all the building work and the finishes — flooring, joinery, bathrooms, kitchen, paintwork — and, if you want it, the kitchen units and appliances, bought and fitted inside the contract. Loose furniture and decoration can be in or out. Whatever you decide, it is written into the quote line by line so there is no argument later about what you thought you were getting.

The proposal carries a phased programme with dates, and those dates go into the contract. As a rough guide, a medium-sized home usually sits between 8 and 14 weeks depending on the scope; your own programme is the one that counts. Holding a date is only possible because the sequencing is ours: nobody on your job is waiting to hear back from a trade you hired.

Yes, and for a good share of our clients that is the whole reason for buying it this way. You get photographs as each phase closes, decisions put to you on a video call, and one site manager who opens the house, signs for materials and answers your questions in English. Nothing outside the agreed quote is built without your approval in writing. You do not need to be in the country for the job to move.

One Batecs site manager, by name. That person sequences the building work, plumbing, electrics, joinery and painting, and is who you ring about anything at all, from a delivery date to a change of mind about a tap. You never have to chase individual trades or carry messages between them.

Yes. We establish what your job needs, prepare the file and lodge it at the town hall, then keep you posted on where it has got to. Which route applies depends on how heavy the work is: some jobs go through on a responsible declaration, others need a full building licence first. Requirements vary from one town hall to the next, so treat this as general guidance rather than a rule.

It depends on the town hall and on the kind of work, and any builder who gives you a figure over the telephone is guessing. The distinction that matters is this: a responsible declaration lets the job begin once it has been lodged properly, whereas a licence has to be in your hands before anybody starts. That second route is the one worth planning your calendar around. We tell you which one your job falls under, prepare the file and chase it. Timings and fees are set by your own town hall and are best confirmed with them directly.

Near the end we walk the house with you, room by room, and write down everything that still needs attention — a door that catches, a joint that is not clean, a socket in the wrong place. That written list is the snagging list. We put the items right, you walk it again, and only when the list is clear does the job get signed off and the keys and paperwork handed back. Signing off is a moment with a date on it, not a feeling that the builders have drifted away.

The terms are part of what you sign at the start, not something produced afterwards. We answer for the work carried out and for the materials, under current Spanish law. Since the people who built it are our own team rather than a chain of subcontractors, whatever needs looking at later is put right by the same company that took the job on.

It is one of the most common briefs we get. What tends to matter there is a cost and a date fixed before anything starts, and finishes chosen to take punishment rather than to photograph well. We set the scope around how the property is going to be used and hand it back finished, so it can go on the market without another month of odd jobs.

Across Valencia city and the whole of the Camp de Túria and l’Horta Nord, with our yard in La Eliana. That covers La Cañada, San Antonio de Benagéber, Bétera, Godella, Rocafort, Paterna, La Pobla de Vallbona, Llíria, Riba-roja de Túria, Moncada, Alboraya and the towns in between them.