Spain’s long-term rental home listings plunge 44% since 2018 – and 83% in Barcelona
Idealista counted 510,000 long-term rental adverts in 2025, down from 902,000 in 2018, with Barcelona losing 83% of its listings.
Tourist apartments in Spain face property tax surcharges of up to 150% under new Pedro Sanchez’s new housing decree
Spain tourist rental tax bills could rise as councils gain powers to impose IBI surcharges of up to 150% in officially designated housing-pressure areas.
Who was Ferrari-driving, ‘always smiling’ butt-lift surgeon Dr Alexander Aslani, shot in the face in Marbella?
From a one-room Marbella practice to one of Europe's top cosmetic clinics, his friends remember a smooth, sociable man who never forgot a face.
Marbella’s leading Brazilian butt lift doctor is murdered in his own clinic: What we know so far about his grisly death
Dr Alexander Aslani , 57, had been practising on the Costa del Sol for almost 20 years, with a client list that was ‘70% from
Calls grow to axe controversial ‘bullfight’ featuring performers with dwarfism at Malaga village fair
Campaigners say the event, planned for this Saturday, breaks two national laws.
Drug trafficker caught with 1.5 tonnes of cocaine shipped from Ibiza to mainland Spain
A Romanian man has been arrested at the port of Valencia after arriving there from Ibiza by ferry with almost 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in
‘No more Maricarmens’: Tributes pour in after death of pensioner whose eviction sparked Spain housing protests
Hundreds marched to Spain's parliament in Madrid on Wednesday, blaming the pensioner's death on her years-long battle against her landlords.
Why October 9 is an important bank holiday in Spain’s Valencia region
The Valencian Community celebrates a major historical event this Friday with the Valencia Day bank holiday.
Maricarmen dies aged 87: Elderly Madrid woman whose eviction sparked mass protests over Spain’s housing crisis
She died on Wednesday at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, according to a statement released by the Tenants’ Union.
PICTURED: Marbella plastic surgeon executed after ‘masked gunmen storm clinic and shoot him multiple times in head’
Dr Alexander Aslani, the founder of the specialist Cirumed Clinic in Marbella, has been named locally as the victim of Wednesday evening’s shooting.
Police hunt killer after man, 57, is shot multiple times in the head at Marbella cosmetic surgery clinic
Officers were called to a cosmetic surgery clinic in the Finca Panorama urbanisation after reports of gunfire inside the building.
Another shooting rocks Malaga as rival families exchange gunfire during broad daylight street brawl
Officers from the Policia Nacional arrested two people and seized three firearms after shots were fired in La Palmilla in Malaga on Wednesday afternoon.
Spain will grind to a halt in November as unions call first general strike in 14 years over the housing crisis
It marks the first time since 2012 that Spain's major class unions, including the CCOO and UGT, have thrown their full weight behind a general
WATCH: Huge explosion rips through Madrid flats – killing three dogs and forcing families from their homes
Shocking footage shows flames tearing through the four-storey building in Valdemoro, south Madrid, following the blast at around 8.25am.
Desperate search for missing autistic boy, 12, who vanished during torrential storms and flooding in Barcelona province
Worried friends and family say 12-year-old Rami is 1.73m tall with dark skin, a robust build and short curly hair.
Torrevieja demolishes seafront viewpoint built on public land without permission
Torrevieja City Council has started to demolish an illegal viewpoint built on the city's Punta Margalla promenade seven years ago.
Marbella doctor found with dead nurse in hotel room ‘confessed to injecting propofol into her jugular’
The pair allegedly used the drug routinely to help each other fall asleep - but the last time they did, the nurse never woke up.
Upcoming doctors’ strike in Spain is postponed due to snap election
Medical unions have postponed the start of an indefinite strike by doctors due to the calling of a general election for November 29.
Dutch tourist, 51, becomes third drowning victim at Costa Blanca beach in three days for swimming during red flag
It brings the death toll on Guardamar del Segura's red-flagged beaches to three in just three days.
Alcohol abuse remains responsible for nearly one in 10 deaths among people aged 35 to 54 in Spain
A new government-backed report shows almost two-thirds of deaths are premature, with men in the country facing four times the risk of women.
Spain’s proposed terrace smoking ban collapses after Pedro Sanchez dissolves Parliament ahead of snap election
An array of measures going through Spain's parliament- Congress- have lapsed due to a general election being called for November 29.
The astonishing art of an autistic teenage expat who started out painting on the walls at home in Malaga but now exhibits around the world
Naomi Lautier, a 14-year-old French artist on the autism spectrum living in Malaga, is preparing for international exhibitions after discovering painting as a way to
Masked burglars sneak into Marbella villa and tie up terrified occupants in second violent raid in days
Intruders entered the property via the garden while the owner was with two young people, fleeing with an unconfirmed haul of valuable items.
Wild wildfires: Over 3,000 square kilometres wiped off the map of Spain in nine months – triple the average
Spain wildfires have burned 300,998 hectares in the first nine months of the year, more than three times the average recorded over the past two
More Spanish women than ever don’t want children, says new government survey
Work, childcare and money are the main barriers, according to Spain's first fertility survey in seven years.
Andalucia’s narco gangs are militarising and hiring fighters with ‘war zone experience’, new report claims
According to the report, Andalucia – including the Costa del Sol – has become a key territory in the European drug trafficking network.