Real Estate Related Spanish Phrases
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Buying and selling real estate is a large part of any economy. And more and more we need to know how to talk about buying and selling real estate in Spanish. Are you a real estate agent who works in a market where Spanish is spoken? Do you need to know Spanish to sell real estate?
- Me gustaria comprar una casa.
- I would like to buy a house.
- In the sentence above, comprar is the infinitive form of the verb so it contains the 2 words to and buy.
- ¿Cuanto dinero de enganche nesecito para comprar una casa?
- How much of a down payment do I need to buy a house?
- Estamos buscando una casa de tres recámaras y dos baños.
- We're looking for a house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
- ¿Cuantos años de experiencia tienes vendiendo casas?
- How many years of experience do you have selling houses?
- cuantos años is the way to say how many years. To ask someone how old they are simply ask ¿cuantos años tienes?
- ¿Que tan cercas a esta casa estan las escuelas y tiendas?
- How close to this house are the schools and stores?
- Use the "que tan" above for all sorts of questions that ask how much: for example, ¿que tan cercas? when you want to say how close? -- ¿que tan lejos? to say how far? -- or ¿que tan feliz estabas? is the way to say how happy were you?
- Puedes ahorar mucho si hallas una casa reposeida por el banco.
- You can save a lot if you find a housed repossessed by the bank.
- The word for money is often implied in a lot of Spanish sentences.
- Para la proxima casa, nos gustaria tener un sótano.
- For our next house, we'd like to have a basement.
- Trabajo en el centro, -- ¿hay casas cercas de estación del tren?
- I work downtown, -- are there any houses close to the train station?
- La casa que te voy a enceñar tiene chimenea y garage de dos caros.
- The house I'm going to show you has a fireplace and two-car garage.
- See how two-car garage is translated above. Spanish will usually reverse the order from English in this situation. So it literally becomes garage of two cars or garage for two cars.
- Este condominio esta recientamente renovado con nuevo pintura y alfombra.
- This condominium is recently remodeled with new paint and carpet.
- Como no tenemos suficiente para una casa, estamos buscando comprar un townhouse.
- Since we don't have enough for a house, we're looking to buy a townhouse.
- Esa casa tiene dos pisos y un sotáno muy grande.
- That house has two floors and a very large basement.