BIRCHLEY JOURNEY ON YOUTUBE
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New Birchley quality golf villas for 170k Euro to 200k Euro depending on location

̶ beautiful golf communities ̶

Spain
Portugal
Greece
Italy
Costa Rica
Panama
  • Only 100 architect Designed 75 square meter villas (800 square feet) on each course
  • Large fenced private garden & electric gated parking spaces for each villa.
  • 100th share in a brand new 18 hole on site private members only golf course

Take a look at these amazing villas in this 3D villa and village tour.

Here is an interview with Barry Murphy the founder of Birchley Golf Villages where he reveals why and how he decided to create these affordable quality villages.

Most of our members in European locations are from The UK and Ireland & Most of our members in The Caribbean locations are from The USA and Canada.

Great for golfers who want to relocate to a safe, more affordable, and climate friendly location.

Additional common area facilities included in all Birchley Golf Villages

Local Cultures & Locations

Golf Course Design

“You don’t have to be a millionaire to live like one”

The Journey, how we operate and Time lines

(No Payments made in advance for land or construction costs)

Identifying suitable regions in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Panama and Costa Rica.

  • This will come down to a few factors which includes scenic surroundings, the cost of land and available of quality services like a sufficient water supply, internet connectivity, as well as a stable electric power supply.
  • We have already identified about 50 interesting locations between Europe and The Caribbean. All of these regions are very scenic, but not in tourist locations

Contact the Mayors of the selected municipalities directly.

  • This is important because we need to make sure that the local existing community and authorities are welcoming of our plans to begin with. They can also assist us on issues like available national grants and other topics like the planning permission process. The importance of having local authorities working with us, and not against us can’t be overstated enough.
  • We will only commence this step when we have the volume of interested members for any region, so that local authorities take us seriously.

Find the most suitable land plot available in each selected region where we know our development is welcome.

  • At this point we will be actively seeking available land plots, taking into account the credentials mentioned above. We will be approaching land owners directly to see if we can negotiate a suitable deal, and again checking with the local municipality mayor to make sure he/she is ok with any selected plots.
  • The initial stages of this step will take a couple of months.

Finalising the construction drawings and the materials quantities as well as the cost.

  • We already have approximate quantities and costs of required materials researched, but of course this will alter from one location to the next. The next step is to be 100% accurate on the above in a selected location and also to compare local material costs with imported costs.
  • This step will take a further 2 months to complete.

Sourcing a very reliable and reputable construction company partner.

  • This is obviously a key factor, and one of our very strict legal contract criteria is that they have to be in a position to finance the first stage of the project prior to payment because we do not pay for any stage in advance. We do have a very quick guaranteed payment system, which allows our construction partner to draw down funds immediately for work which is completed satisfactorly.
  • This step could easily take up to 2 months to negotiate properly so that both our members and the selected construction company are both 100% protected.

Purchasing the land and the planning permission process.

  • If all of the above boxes are ticked positively, we will purchase the selected land plot, but only subject to obtaining full planning permission approval. We may have to collectively pay for some small planning application fee costs, but we will not pay for the land itself without full planning permission.
  • If the planning permission process is going to take longer than 6 months, we will already have dropped the location.

Paying for the land and starting the construction process.

  • Presuming we have completed all the previous steps to our strict criteria and satisfaction, we will pay for the land and start construction of both the golf course and village simultaniously.
  • It is important to point out here that the village will be completed and ready to move into approximately 6 months before the golf course is playable to let the grass mature properly.

The initial village construction phase.

  • This will involve earth moving and getting the levels on the site as we need them to be, as well as laying the main services and the installation of rough construction roads.
  • This will obviously depend on each site, but should be manageable within 2 months in most cases.

First step of the golf course construction

  • The first step in this process will be to clear the existing site, and to shape the contours of the greens, tee boxes and fairways as per the design. Any trees that intend to be planted will also happen in this early stage.
  • This task will obviously depend on the conditions on the ground in any location, but should never take longer than 4 months.

The second village construction phase will be to build just the shell of the communal area buildings.

  • The reason for this is so that we and the contractor can use these buildings initially as warehouse storage for construction materials. The fastest way to lose time on any construction project is to be waiting for materials. Better to be looking at materials rather than looking for them!
  • These two communal buildings will be constructed to a shell level within one month easily, and this will proceed at the same time as the ground works are ongoing.

The construction of the villas.

  • We have decided to create approximately 6 teams of 10 persons. Each team will be responsible for one aspect of each villa build, and each team will have one junior engineer as the team leader. For example the first team will take each villa to floor level, the next to wall and framing lever etc. There will also be two very senior experienced project management engineers from The UK and/or Ireland on site at all times.
  • Because of our team system it should take 10 days to complete each villa, but with 6 teams that will produce one villa per day in reality, meaning the 100 villas should be completed in 100 days all going to plan.

The second phase of the Golf Course Construction

  • In this phase we instal the drainage and water sprinkler systems, followed by covering the entire course with a quality recommended subsoil mix of peat and sand. Then it is a question of shaping the greens and bunkers, and sowing the grass seed.
  • This phase is likely to take in the region of 6 months, and will require a further 6 months of professional nurturing before the course is playable.

Landscaping for each villa

  • Once the heavy lifting for each villa has been completed (floor, walls, roofing and glazing) the landscaping team start on the garden fencing, foot paths, entrance surface, gates and grass laying with inbuilt sprinkler systems. This is to ensure that the garden is ready at the same time as the villa is completed by the interior work teams.
  • We estimate that it will take a landscaping team of 12 persons one full day to complete the exterior work due to the equipment we intend to use and the system we have developed.

The common areas and internal roads.

  • The plan to complete all of the common area buildings and facilities as well as the internal roads is to put the whole team of approximately 60 staff at it simultaneously.
  • All staff get a one month salary paid bonus upon completion of the entire village, so we expect this phase to take less than 2 months!

Community & Management Fees After Construction Completion

  • The community management tasks and common area maintenance will be performed by Birchley Village staff initially for as long as required at very reasonable rates, but we would advise that the community come up with their own plan in the long term.

    Community management and maintenance contracts should always be offered on a short term basis. Year by year, and yes of course they can be extended to well performing service providers. The community members themselves must always have full control over this aspect of community living.

    We will provide an initial community rules and contract for all members based on experience, and only the members themselves can adjust these rules by majority vote

Summary

The initial stages before any construction starts is likely to take 10 months, let’s call it a year.

The actual construction of the entire village should be completed in 8 months ready for all residents to move in simultaneously, but again let’s allow a year for some wiggle room.

So the overall village will be completed from start to finish in a 2 year period maximum, and yes all residents move in together simultaneously so that nobody is living on a construction site, and also so that construction workers can get on with their work unimpeded.

The total site will be available to be viewed by members via numerous live stream cameras 24/7, and members are also welcome to visit the site in person during any stage of the construction phases subject to appointment for health and safety reasons.

One other point to make here again is that it will most likely take 6 months after residents move in for the golf course to be playable, but we have 4 golf simulators on site permanently also.

Check out the “Villa and Village Designs” page in the menu.

Two typical members circumstances

If they get the opportunity, Tony and Alice who are both teachers with the option to retire in their late 50s intend to sell their house in Ireland, which they reckon is worth 350,000 Euro.

Their plan is to hopefully purchase a Birchley golf villa abroad as well as a new mobile home on a parkland site in Ireland, so that they can spend a couple of months in the summers in Ireland to catch up with friends and family.

They also plan on having approximately 120k Euro left over after selling their home, and purchasing the two properties, which is a very comfortable reserve to hold, should they ever need it.

Ben and Anne have taken a different approach to Tony and Alice. Ben worked in private industry and has been laid off recently at 58 years of age, and Anne is working as a civil servant, who could take an early retirement package.

They figured out that with Ben’s redundancy payment combined with Ann’s pension lump sum, they could just about afford a Birchley villa, but it would be tight. They decided to take out a personal loan of 25k and to keep their original home to rent out. This would give them extra monthly income, while at the same time knowing that if at some stage in the future if they wanted to sell their Birchley villa and move back home permanently, they had that option.

Different strokes for different folks!

Become a member of the Birchley Golf Community Journey with no obligation whatsoever to see if we can pull this off for the benefit of everyone who would enjoy living an affordable quality golf lifestyle in decent all year round climates.

(The research journey will be as interesting to follow as any potential outcome.)

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