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Spain’s long-term rental housing market has shrunk by a third – but Malaga is bucking the trend

THERE are now a third less apartments available in Spain for long-term rent since 2019. Hard-pressed renters instead are being faced with short-term and ‘seasonal’

11 Oct, 2024 @ 08:00

Lead·Malaga·Property

Damning report on Spain’s housing market labels it ‘a system of wealth transfer’ as half of home purchases are made by ‘mega landlords’ while 70% of tenants expect to ‘rent until they die’

SPAIN’S housing market has been blasted as ‘inaccessible and monopolised’, with seven out of ten Spaniards appearing to be doomed to rent all their lives.

10 Oct, 2024 @ 18:00

Lead·Property

Slash the red tape! Experts in Spain demand lowering of bureaucratic hurdles to new construction projects

WITH rents soaring and a projected shortfall of 600,000 homes by 2025, experts are warning that Spain’s housing crisis won’t be solved unless red tape

10 Oct, 2024 @ 17:05

Lead·Other News·Property

Record-breaking number of claims demanding a refund of mortgage fees flood the Bank of Spain following EU rule change

A HUGE number of home buyers in Spain are claiming refunds from their lenders after the EU changed the rules on who pays the mortgage

10 Oct, 2024 @ 17:00

Lead·Property

Outrage after plans to build a hotel in a natural beauty spot in Malaga are given the green light

LONG-DELAYED plans to build a hotel in pristine mountains behind the Costa del Sol have controversially been given the green light. The hotel is set

7 Oct, 2024 @ 13:00

Lead·Malaga·Property

Bargain! The British expat haven in Spain where two-bed seaside homes are selling for €65,000

WITH property prices on a steady rise in Spain, it’s becoming more and more difficult to find a cheap coastal home. In Alicante city, for

6 Oct, 2024 @ 13:41

Costa Blanca·Lead·Property

Keep the stress at bay: Casa Direct has the knowledge and experience to guide you through buying or selling a property in Spain

IN the competitive world of real estate, few agencies stand out as clearly as Casa Direct. With a reputation built on trust, professionalism, and a

4 Oct, 2024 @ 10:09

Andalucia·Other News·Property·Sponsored

Expat haven: How Malaga’s least populated village of just 192 people is filled with British, Belgian and Danish residents

IT’S officially the least populated village in Malaga province with just 192 residents living there, according to the 2023 census. But Salares (pictured above), a

1 Oct, 2024 @ 13:43

Andalucia·Malaga·Olive Press Travel·Property

Airbnbs welcome! Holiday hotspot approves construction of 1,000 new tourist flats on Spain’s Costa Blanca

PILAR de La Horadada council has backed plans for 1,086 holiday homes to be built on 290,000 m2 of rural land at Lo Monte Playa.

30 Sep, 2024 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Property

LET IN THE LIGHT (AND WATER): Stunning new development where a salt lagoon in Spain is on full screen

AS any good architect knows you always need to maximise on your environment. And so this is exactly how the talented team at Arquitectos MAB

30 Sep, 2024 @ 16:45

Alicante·Featured Property·Other News·Property·Sponsored

Hidden gem on Spain’s ‘Tropical Coast’ where you still get a free ‘tapa’ with your beer is building four hotels and 1,500 homes amid surge in demand

A POPULAR beach resort in Granada is ramping up its property and hotel expansion plans. Motril, on the Costa Tropical, has announced it is building

28 Sep, 2024 @ 12:10

Andalucia·Granada·Lead·Property

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Moving out: Why 63% of young house hunters in Spain want to buy in rural ‘pueblos’

A QUIET revolution is underway in the population distribution among the young and restless in Spain. Nearly two thirds of Spaniards (63%) who are actively

27 Sep, 2024 @ 14:15

Lead·Property

Spanish property sales soared by 19.4% in July to reach their best level since 2007

SALES in Spain’s housing market jumped by an impressive 19.4% in July to reach levels not seen since the property boom that preceded the Great

26 Sep, 2024 @ 11:30

Lead·Property

Exclusive: Leading American real estate brand The Agency launches first office in Spain’s Barcelona

THE Agency, one of the world’s fastest-growing luxury real estate brands, known for its exposure on Netflix, has announced the opening of a new office

25 Sep, 2024 @ 09:00

Barcelona·Business & Finance·Catalunya·EXCLUSIVE·Lead·Property

These €20,000 prefabricated homes are taking Spain by storm

BUYERS in Spain are snapping up prefabricated homes for just €20,000 in a new trend. In recent years, prefabricated houses have experienced a significant surge

23 Sep, 2024 @ 17:04

Lead·Property

Planned €100m property development in Spain’s Estepona hopes to attract British and other foreign buyers

THE expat colonisation of the Costa del Sol is set to continue apace with the announcement of a new property development. The €100 project is

23 Sep, 2024 @ 13:15

Estepona·Lead·Property

Spain’s Puerto Banus is the most expensive port to dock a yacht in Europe, according to new ranking

Ivy League of resorts: British buyers still top as Marbella shoots into a totally new orbit, according to a new in-depth report by the Panorama group’s Christopher Clover

MARBELLA has truly entered the ‘Ivy League’ of true ultra-luxury destinations, insists a new study of the resort. It has entered the ‘hearts and minds

22 Sep, 2024 @ 18:54

Lead·Other News·Property

How much money do I need to buy or rent a property in Spain? Latest study shows figure is continuing to rise

Good news and bad: Home sales in Spain ebullient in first half of year, but foreign markets off the boil, writes Mark Stucklin of Spanish Property Insight

THE Spanish property market had an excellent first half (H1) of 2024 with the second-highest sales level in more than 15 years, up 6% on

22 Sep, 2024 @ 18:40

Other News·Property

Housing and tourism crises are changing Spain’s property market with bans on short term lets increasingly likely, writes expert ADAM NEALE

IT’s already been another bumper year for tourism in Spain. According to the national statistics institute the number of visitors had reached over 53 million

21 Sep, 2024 @ 12:58

Adam Neale: Property Insider·Andalucia·Columnists·Other News·Property

WELCOME ARRIVALS: International buyers are feeding the Costa del Sol’s booming property market, says Panorama’s Marbella Property Market Report

MARBELLA’s luxury property market is booming with foreign investors – particularly the British – driving the demand. A new report by Christoper Clover of real

20 Sep, 2024 @ 12:26

Andalucia·Lead·Other News·Property

Estepona is planning a shopping centre that would dwarf Marbella’s La Cañada and be one of the biggest in Spain

A HUGE commercial centre that would dwarf Marbella’s La Cañada is being planned for Estepona, it has emerged. The long-anticipated project actually began in 2008,

20 Sep, 2024 @ 10:36

Business & Finance·Lead·Property

Watch: Tourists blast Airbnb on Spain’s Costa del Sol that’s ‘hidden in a restaurant basement between two septic tanks’

THIS is the moment a shocked Airbnb guest arrived at their accommodation to find it was in the basement of a restaurant. The experience was

19 Sep, 2024 @ 18:28

Lead·Malaga·Property·Video

Airbnb owners in Barcelona demand €1billion compensation as city prepares to ban ALL tourist flats by 2028

BARCELONA’S Airbnb owners are demanding compensation totalling €1billion following the city council’s decision to revoke the licences of the 10,000-plus tourist apartments that operate in

17 Sep, 2024 @ 16:30

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Property

Benidorm skyscraper is crowned the best residential development in Europe by a panel of property experts – but its flats aren’t cheap

A SKYSCRAPER in Benidorm has been crowned the best residential development in Europe. Measuring 126m tall, Benidorm Beach was awarded the title by a panel

12 Sep, 2024 @ 11:43

Benidorm·Lead·Property

Spain’s rental nightmare laid bare: How up to 85 families are forced to ‘audition’ for homes in the hottest markets – with demand surging in Barcelona, Malaga, Alicante and elsewhere

SPAIN’S growing rental nightmare has been laid bare by the latest statistics from the second quarter of 2024. According to property portal Idealista, across Spain,

12 Sep, 2024 @ 07:00

Lead·Property·Video

‘Gazumping’ comes to Spain’s housing market: What is the practice and how vulnerable are homebuyers to being gazumped?

HOMEBUYERS across Spain are coming to terms with an expression that Brits have long been familiar with: gazumping. This practice, where a seller agrees to

10 Sep, 2024 @ 14:15

Lead·Property

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