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Spanish property tax hike

Lead2, Malaga, Property  •  2 Comments

Around eight out of 10 properties in Malaga will be affected by the increase in IBI

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Fighting back against property tax in Spain

Property  •  4 Comments

Expats successfully battle the inland revenue to avoid paying ‘scandalous’ property tax

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Property compulsory purchase orders in Spain

Property  •  0 Comments

With the news of a new rail line possibly going through Ronda’s celebrated tourist valley, Antonio Flores looks at what happens when a compulsory purchase order – or the ‘Mugabe school’ of land distribution – falls on your home

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Spanish properties sold to foreigners increase by 24.7%

Property  •  2 Comments

Statistics from the Ministry of Public Transactions show property sales to foreigners in Spain experienced an increase of 24.7% in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year

Illegal homes to be regulated within three months, says Junta thumbnail

Illegal homes to be regulated within three months, says Junta

Lead, Property  •  8 Comments

Around 250,000 properties will benefit from the decree

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A spring clean for the housing market?

Property  •  2 Comments

Lesley McEwan, of Cadiz Casa, explains how, while Spain’s new leader is unlikely to achieve much, new mortgage products might help… but be prepared to haggle!


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How to handle Spain’s Hacienda

Crime & Law, Property  •  0 Comments

In a bid to raise much needed funds the Inland Revenue is making new demands on foreign property owners, writes Antonio Flores


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Holiday rental property market trends

Property  •  0 Comments

Make it desirable, make it affordable and market it properly and you have a good chance of making some money out of your holiday home investment


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The Spanish Government has a short memory

Andalucia, Business & Finance, Property  •  1 Comments

Push to attract fresh investment in the Spanish property market is coming at the expense of solving the problems that have made it necessary


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Spain’s equity release time bomb

Property  •  3 Comments

Olive Press’ new legal eagle Antonio Flores on the defrauding of thousands of pensioners via a scheme to release capital from their homes


A Gallic tussle as France overtakes Spain as most popular place to buy for Britons thumbnail

A Gallic tussle as France overtakes Spain as most popular place to buy for Britons

Lead2, Property  •  6 Comments

Spain still most popular place to rent at least for Britons, according to report


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Roadworks leave expat in Spain homeless

Andalucia, Granada, Lead, Property  •  6 Comments

Graham Mullis has been left out of pocket after Compulsory Purchase Order was served on ‘dream’ home

Andalucia, Property »

Junta to regulate thousands of illegal Andalucia properties thumbnail

Junta to regulate thousands of illegal Andalucia properties

President Grinan said decree will ‘probably’ be passed on January 10

Andalucia, Malaga, Property »

Expat goes up against Denmark’s biggest bank in a bid to save his Malaga home thumbnail

Expat goes up against Denmark’s biggest bank in a bid to save his Malaga home

Scottish expat takes Danske Bank to court over an equity release scheme that now threatens to leave him penniless

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Pilot property scheme could encourage buyers back to Spain thumbnail

Pilot property scheme could encourage buyers back to Spain

Ingenious cross-border purchasing scheme could bring buyers back to the market

“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 - 52,000 copies printed monthly with 30,000 downloads per issue with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 500,000 people a month.

From The Archives »

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My Off-Plan property nightmare

May 16, 2009 | Cadiz

Buyer loses tens of thousands after buying unbuilt property through complex web of agents and a lawyer who wasn’t interested

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Rescued rowers back safely in Gibraltar

February 9, 2012 | Gibraltar, Lead2

The team endured an agonising 14-hour before being rescued by a cargo ship

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Kicking back under the stars

September 4, 2011 | Blogs, Factor 50 - A dub in Cordoba

Jane Plunkett’s childhood dream is realised in Technicolor at Cordoba’s Summer Cinema

Yellow Elephant hotel falls victim to recession thumbnail

Yellow Elephant hotel falls victim to recession

June 30, 2011 | Andalucia, Business & Finance, Malaga

Unusual ‘shareholder’ hotel purchase, involving pop band Belle & Sebastian, finally falls victim to the recession

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Handbag heroines fight back against Costa thieves

September 9, 2011 | Andalucia, Lead, Malaga

Feisty expat females lead fight back against spate of Costa car robberies

Spain’s Javier Bardem to play next Bond villain thumbnail

Spain’s Javier Bardem to play next Bond villain

February 11, 2011 | Lead

The Biutiful will star opposite Daniel Craig

Brits warned after Olive Press story

February 22, 2007 | Business & Finance

BRITISH taxpayers living in Spain have been warned to watch their backs, after the Olive Press exclusively reported that a fatcat businessman Mark Langford was hit with a multi-million pound writ in Marbella. A bailiff acting on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) issued Mark Langford, the former chairman of collapsed “no win, no [...]

Busted

November 20, 2011 | News in Brief

One of Europe’s biggest drug smugglers has been arrested in Estepona as part of an operation which seized more than 3.5 tons of canabis from a gang in Huelva.

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Turkish property scam exposed in Spain

December 30, 2010 | Andalucia, Crime & Law, Lead

Police are clamping down on a Turkish property scam that cost dozens of people across Europe their life savings

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In the money

October 8, 2010 | Business & Finance

Malaga has the highest-earning hotels in Spain