Apartment Hunting

We woke at around 8 got ready and went down for breakfast. The hotel looked much better in daylight, no surprise there. Having finished a large breakfast we decided to take a walk in the near vicinity to get our bearings. It was a beautifully hot day, around the high twentys already mid morning. we explored Portmasao, the area around hotel which is a bay and is highly prestigious area, an area we know we could not afford comfortably unless we wanted a place like our previous fairly small one beds back in the UK.
It was a lovely area and a nice walk. There are lots of restaurants in Portmasao. They are fairly pricy but lovely (we have been to a couple now).
Then we met our agent at a well known real estate company over here and began our flat hunt.

There are many things ascertained during our trip that day and these are the following realisations on Maltese property.
1) they like to have their washing machines in their bathrooms
2) they are cheaper like for like than the UK. Again no surprise there!
3) they are one of the following in terms of style: chic and minamalist or 80s style. there is nothing in between, no shabby chic and so forth.
4) They like to keep the place dark to lose as much heat as possible.

We saw some nice spaces but the old fashioned interior did make them less desirable for us. It is hard to imagine them with our style in it with such garish items around. Take note house sellers!
We ended up liking 3 properties. Each had a good amount of space and modern interior and air con in each room. One had the most amazing view but it was the more expensive of the three. After some weighing up we decided it was worth it and affordable.