More interesting houses

We saw one house yesterday, courtesy of one of the men we know in the village. As Mick has posted, some of the rooms seem a bit gloomy and it needs some improvements (which the owner has offered to do prior to the sale:he is apparently a bit cash-strapped and keen to sell.). There is a sufficient land to build another house along the same access which offers the tantalising possibility of building and selling a second property and thus reimbursing ourselves for buying the main house + land. Of course, that would mean living in a building site for most of a year!
Today we were taken round by a helpful English lady called Joanna from the Greekscape agency. She did take us one place we had already seen and it did not improve on a second viewing. Of the others: the first one was a furnished house in a fairly new development of 4 houses. It was not very large, but well laid-out and finished off inside. There's enough land for a small - and flat - garden and there looks to be sufficient access for installing a round-source heat-pump. It was also quite close to the coast, walking distance into the main area of Stoupa. The other houses were all a bit further out, so we would need to think about buying a car. Of course, installing a domestic car-charging point might fill out our investment to help us get the "golden visa". The first of these was quite large but very well laid out, finished and organised. The "mature garden" (as it said in the details) was quite big and on 2 or 3 terraces, but not as big as our garden at Owlers.
The house is in a large site, currently planted with masses of olive trees. Joanna told us that it would be feasible to build 1 or more houses in this land, but we would need to take advice about local planning rules.
So another possibility of paying for the house by means of building another! This house also has a small swimming pool and sufficient space to build a sauna, either inside or out. It is certainly grabbing our interest, but it was over-shadowed by the last house we viewed.
We had not actually booked to see this one but it was literally just round the corner from the previous one, so Joanna offered to ring up on spec to see if the owners were in and would be willing for us to look round. They were very chatty and welcoming and certainly had a wonderful house to show us. It has 3 bedrooms., 3 bathrooms, lots of balconies, electric gates and outside lighting and is very well laid out and finished. There's another mature garden, part of which is all down to olive trees. The current owner processes them himself, with help from some other people who own olive plots and claims that it is not too arduous and is usually enjoyable! I think we were both very taken with this house. It has only just come on the market so we might be able to get in with an early offer.
This morning our landlady Voula took us to meet the notary she has used for many years to deal with all her property transactions. This lady has offices in Kalamata but is in a nearby village, Agios Nikolaus, 2 days a week. She explained the processes we will need to go through and offered her services when we will need them. When we got back to Voula's place, she floated another suggestion. She has for some time thought about building a house in her garden and she wondered if we might be interested in buying a suitably sized plot from her and building a house for us to live in. We would be in walking distance of the beach and the sea front and in a fairly sheltered position. I am a bit concerned that there is only limited space and we might be too close to the neighbouring houses, but I am sure it is worth finding out all the possibilities for this and considering it alongside the houses/plots we get to view.
Now it is November, the weather has suddenly got warmer and sunnier, so I actually ate my breakfast outside today.