Valencian government to pass new law regulating holiday lets
The decree is aimed at regulating the tourism accommodation market and weeding out illegal practices.
SAFE AS HOUSES?: Valencian government to tax large property owners for empty homes
THIS year sees the introduction of a new tax on empty properties held by large owners in the Valencia region. According to the Generalitat, the
Spain’s Malaga and Torremolinos see noticeable drop in rental property price—while rent in Marbella remains high
MALAGA City and Torremolinos lead the way in the annual drop in the price of housing rent in the whole of the province. Renting a
UK lockdowns encourage interest in a Spanish place in the sun
DEVELOPER Taylor Wimpey Spain says that ‘lockdown misery’ is helping new home sales as they launch five developments for 2021. The British-owned company also claims
Property sales in Spain fall again but are miles better than springtime figures
PROPERTY sales in Spain fell by 13.4% in October over a 12-month period according to the College of Notaries. The figures are significantly lower than
ON THE UP: Why are property prices in Marbella still rising?
WHEN the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, homeowners and property developers braced themselves for a drop in housing values, but in the end this didn’t materialise.
Home buyers in Spain looking to go out-of-town due to COVID-19 pandemic
HOME buyers are looking for out-of-town properties and more space due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to one of Spain’s major real-estate valuation firms, Tecnitasa.
Border closures hitting holiday home market right across Spain’s Costa Blanca
A LEADING Costa Blanca developer has warned of a ‘sharp slowdown’ in the holiday home property market due to border closures. Pablo Serna from Torrevieja-based
Beat the looming tax deadline for British non-resident property owners in Spain with Spanishtaxesonline.com
A DECEMBER 31 deadline for British owners of second homes in Spain to pay their Modelo 210 tax return is fast looming. Some property owners
‘Whiter than white’ house on Spain’s Costa Blanca grabs big social media attention
A COSTA BLANCA house has gone viral on the internet amongst fans of minimalist modern architecture. Carmen House was designed by Valencia-based Carles Faus Architects
Major property price falls predicted for the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca in Spain
PROPERTY prices in Spain’s tourist areas of the Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol could crash by over 20 per cent over the next year
Two decade-long battle continues over villa land grab on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN AUSTRIAN couple are trying to get their 200-year-old Costa Blanca finca classified as an ‘Asset of Cultural Interest'(BIC) in the latest stage of a
Online Boom for Costa Blanca-based Furniture Retailer, Don Baraton
AN ILL WIND like this year’s Covid-19 pandemic in Spain has blown in some new opportunities for businesses to expand including the Costa Blanca-based online
Citizens in Malaga to benefit from rental subsidies due to economic crisis triggered by COVID-19
In Malaga, €6.4 million will be allocated and some 1,799 people will benefit.
As Spain’s COVID-19 crisis recedes the spectre of Brexit has returned for British property buyers
SPAIN has finally allowed tourism to return after several months of the world’s most draconian COVID-19 lockdown. Brits, Germans and other key tourist markets are
Real estate agent Amanda Butler welcomes stream of property enquiries as Mallorca opens up once again
WITH the state of alarm now lifted, the Balearic Islands opened their borders to over 10,000 German tourists early last week as a test run
How lockdown life in Spain will change the look of new-build properties around the world
LIFE AT HOME has changed for everyone, thanks to varying lockdown restrictions across the world. Here in Spain, we’ve been lucky to have had very
Property market in Spain’s Marbella set to weather coronavirus storm
MARBELLA’S property market is set to weather the coronavirus storm without sinking to the depths seen in the 2008-14 financial crisis. This is the conclusion
Spain’s Top 6 most popular Airbnb listings
MOST of Spain is now in Phase 2 of the de-escalation measures and has started seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
COVID-19: Real estate agent Amanda Butler is leading Mallorca’s Phase 2 celebrations and is looking ahead to a property market revival
WITH coronavirus figures plummeting around Spain and only two new cases reported with no deaths over the weekend in the Balearic Islands things are looking
Spanish hotel giant Parador will reopen all hotels on June 25
SPANISH hotel giant Parador has announced that it will reopen all its hotels on June 25, in anticipation for the tourist season to restart on
Plenty of Brits will be committing to Spain post-coronavirus lockdown, predicts property expert Campbell Ferguson
WELL, well, well. Demand, no surprise, has virtually ceased in the Spanish property market, though a few committed buyers are hanging in there and there
Coronavirus will rip a few roof tiles off Spain’s property market but it’s resilient enough to escape structural damage, writes Adam Neale
CORONAVIRUS AND ADVICE FOR SELLERS A crisis always creates opportunities. For real-estate buyers, this can be good news. For sellers, it may mean lower expectations,
House sales in Spain’s Andalucia increased by 8% in February, compared to the same month last year
HOUSE sales in Andalucia have increased by 8% in February, compared to the same month last year.
COVID-19 and the actions to slow its spread have changed Spain and the world, writes surveyor Campbell Ferguson in the first part of his quarterly property report
IT is firstly vital to thank the frontline staff, or worker bees, without whom our hive would not survive. But it is fairly obvious that
Property is a safe house for investors in the time of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, writes agent Adam Neale
AS financial analysts and market experts debate what shape the post-coronavirus economic recovery may follow, drawing on letters like V, U and W to trace