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Latest issue #206 · Jul 12, 2026
Find your charming home in southern Europe.
Ten hand-picked stone farmhouses, village townhouses and sea-view terraces every Sunday. Mostly under €300,000. Curated by humans in Barcelona. Never an algorithm, never an agent commission.
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Issue #206 · 7 picks
Como, Italy
195,000 € · 2 beds · 90 m²
Eure-et-Loir, France
241,500 €
Málaga, Spain
295,000 €
What's inside this issue
Three previews from Issue #206.
Plus 4 more across our weekly picks.
Como, Italy
195,000 €
A split-level village house above Lake Como; dark walnut cabinetry, terracotta floors, and exposed timber beams rising to a steep mezzanine stair.
Eure-et-Loir, France
241,500 €
A medieval Eure-et-Loir village house: rubble-stone walls, sage-green shutters, a timber-framed gallery, and an old bronze bell still hanging in its arch.
Málaga, Spain
295,000 €
Whitewashed Gaucin townhouse with a terracotta-tiled rooftop terrace, dragon trees in clay pots, and sierra views stretching to the reservoir below.
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What you get
More than a newsletter.
10 picks every Sunday
Always real, always recent, always with photos and a one-paragraph honest take from us.
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Each week we feature a truly exceptional property. Restored, well-documented, ready to live in.
Country buying guides
Notary, taxes, residency, contract gotchas, explained per country. Written by lawyers we trust.
We answer back
One email to hello@cch.house and a real person replies, usually within a day.
Who we are
Two friends, one obsession.
We're Carmen and Gen, two friends in Barcelona. Europe has no single property site — just thousands of tiny local agencies with terrible websites. We spend our weeks digging through all of them so you get the good stuff on Sunday.
Stock photos of tile floors. AI-retouched sunsets that don't exist. €1,200,000 villas filed under "cottage." Listings from 2019 still flagged "new."
What started as us emailing each other finds is now a weekly newsletter with 11,740 readers in 47 countries. We still pick every property by hand.
We don't take agent commissions. We don't take ads. If a property is on the list, it's because one of us would consider buying it.
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What readers say
From a few of the 10,213.
Frequently asked
Honest answers.
Where do the properties come from?
Agents, owners, regional portals, and our own walking around. We have small networks in Galicia, Asturias, Tuscany, Puglia, Provence, Alentejo, and the Algarve. We're slowly adding Croatia and Greece.
Do you really not take commissions?
Correct. We don't have a single referral deal with any agent or platform. If we did, we'd lose the reason readers trust us.
Is "under €300K" a hard limit?
Soft. Most picks land between €60K and €280K. Occasionally we feature something up to €500K when it's a renovated rural house with land. We always flag the price tier clearly.
What countries do you cover?
Italy, Spain, Portugal and France are weekly. Croatia, Greece and Slovenia rotate in roughly once a month. No northern Europe. That's not who we are.
I'm an agent. Can I submit listings?
Yes, email submit@cch.house with photos and the listing URL. We don't pay for submissions and we only feature what we'd buy ourselves. Roughly 1 in 30 makes the cut.
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