Brits' rekindled love affair with Spanish property
The media loves a good bad news story. The more lurid the headline, the more it lurches out at you from the newsstand. The more dramatic the detail, the more engrossed the reader. Living vicariously through the whims of the world is what people do, and when...
Home away from home!
A great deal of the queries we receive from people looking to buy a property in Spain concern the availability of the types of home comforts one is used to in the UK. From food to healthcare, it is understandable that Brits considering a move overseas ask such...
Is now the time to buy?
The demand for housing in Spain will pick up again in 2015, with an increase in transactions of 15%, which will raise real estate prices by an average of 1.5%, and by up to 5% more in 2016, according to the bi-annual report on the real estate market in Spain prepared...
Strong Pound brings the "Brits" back!
In Spanish property news last week, a weakened Euro is providing tremendous prospects for the some foreign property buyers. For British buyers especially, the pound has increased in value by 10 percent in the last year and, over the past few weeks, the currency has...
Spanish property market picking up
An increase in sales by foreign buyers and institutional investors has led to predictions that unsold homes in Spain will shrink to 563,000 units in 2015, a 40% decline from 2010. Spain's landscape has become well-known for being littered with unoccupied housing...
The Vikings are coming
Swedish and Norwegian tourists increased most on Costa del Sol More tourists visiting the Costa del Sol last year, but stayed fewer days, which resulted in lower revenue to the tourism industry. So, the statistics on tourism on the Costa del Sol for 2012 are...
They are starting to build again as property demand increases
Spain’s construction sector has begun building new housing and commercial properties at a rate of pace not seen since 2007 as the economy and real estate market continues its encouraging recovery. During the height of the economic boom the construction industry...