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Banks skip community fee payments

Andalucia, Business & Finance, Property  •  2 Comments

The non-payment is causing upkeep and maintenance service problems

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Help for homeowners

Andalucia, Property  •  0 Comments

Southern Spain’s leading property portal has just made finding your ideal home easier than ever!

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Szekely in crisis

Andalucia, Malaga, Property  •  26 Comments

Top expat agent in trouble owing €250,000 but insists she is not bankrupt

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Expats finally awarded “insulting” €30,000 compensation after home illegally bulldozed by council

Almeria, Andalucia, Property  •  19 Comments

EXCLUSIVE The Priors got the award after being forced to live in a converted garage for five years

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Building on success in Spain

Property  •  0 Comments

Property firm VIVA has opened six new offices on Costa del Sol since August

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Tea with Tommy in Torremolinos

Andalucia, Features, Gardening, Malaga, Property  •  0 Comments

The Homes, Gardens & Lifestyle Show comes to the coast this month along with Ground Force star Tommy Walsh

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Priors slam authorities on fifth anniversary of Spanish home demolition

Almeria, Andalucia, Property  •  14 Comments

‘A five-year-old would see this situation as crazy,’ Priors tell the Olive Press


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British buyers home boom

Andalucia, Features, Malaga, Property  •  6 Comments

Property sales in Malaga have shown the first sign of improvement in four years


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Expat’s home in Spain left ‘trashed’ by tenants

Andalucia, Features, Malaga, Property  •  0 Comments

Jean Leftwick warns landlords to be wary of a British couple who left her €10,000 out of pocket


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Spanish families given eviction lifeline

Features, National News, Property  •  3 Comments

Government announces plan to provide low-cost housing to those left homeless


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New laws to benefit buy-to-let purchasers

Andalucia, Property  •  0 Comments

New legislation will favour homeowners over tenants


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Property buyers flock to Spain

Andalucia, Lead2, Property  •  131 Comments

Britons are increasingly indulging in ‘schadenfreude shopping’ to snap up bargain second homes


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Mijas bucks the trend with property sales

Andalucia, Property  •  12 Comments

Property is still in high demand in Mijas Costa, discovers Dana Ferguson


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40,000 Costa del Sol properties to be sold to Nordic buyers

Andalucia, Malaga, Property  •  25 Comments

Hands shake on a new deal at a conference in Stockholm


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Respected estate agent defends Marbella’s resort property sector against sceptic

Andalucia, Property  •  1 Comments

In a fascinating property debate, Marbella’s most respected estate agent Christopher Clover takes on a sceptic who believes the resort’s property sector is doomed to slump like Greece


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Property buyers flock to Spain

Andalucia, Lead2, Property  •  131 Comments

Britons are increasingly indulging in ‘schadenfreude shopping’ to snap up bargain second homes

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Spanish property prices to fall by a further 50% thumbnail

Spanish property prices to fall by a further 50%

Experts warn of further slump as values show no sign of improvement

Almeria, Lead, Property »

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British couple launch compensation claim over demolition of home in Spain

Len and Helen Prior have spent the last four-and-a-half years living in a garage on land where their house used to be

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“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain. 33,000 issues a fortnight are printed plus up to 100,000 downloaded online giving an estimated readership of around 300,000 people per month.

From The Archives »

Spain strike confusion

June 9, 2010 | National News

Unions and government at loggerheads over official strike figures

Driving a train through the truth in Ronda’s tourist valley

July 30, 2012 | Lead, Malaga

Ronda town hall does U-turn on freight line through tourist valley

Road rage killer’s appeal over Spanish jail time rejected

March 17, 2013 | Lead2, National News

A judge has quashed Kenneth Noye’s appeal to have the time he spent in Spanish custody removed from his sentence

British paedophile sentenced to six years

December 10, 2010 | Crime & Law

A British paedophile, arrested in Benalmádena and extradited to the UK, has been sentenced to six years in prison

A load of bunkum

November 20, 2010 | Max Bartie

Bartie wonders what all the fuss is about for the proposed new hotel and golf course at El Palmar beach

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