Home sales in Spain increased again on an annual basis in September after dipping in August, according to the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics. Sales went up 13% in September and excluding social housing, there were 24,096 sales registered, the highest level in four years and 14% up on a monthly basis. […]
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Homes sales up again in Spain in September, most recent data shows
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Alicante-Elche airport serves almost 9 million so far
Alicante-Elche airport has served a total of 8,954,841 passengers so far this year, 4.7% more than the same period in 2013, after October brought 966,287 travellers through the facility. According to a report issued this week, domestic traffic increased by 23.9% compared with October 2013, with an additional 99,117 passengers, with the accumulated number of […]
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Don’t put it on your Christmas list – treat yourself to a bargain Spanish apartment this Black Friday
The end of this month will see Americans hit the stores in a shopping frenzy as Black Friday – the day when the Christmas shopping season officially begins – sees stores across the country offer impressive discounts in order to kick start the traditional holiday spend-a-thon. According to Statistic Brain, a staggering 25% of all […]
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The Russians are on the move… from the cold of Moscow to the warmth of the Costa Blanca
There’s no questioning the attractions of the Spanish Costas. With sea, sand and sunshine, they make the perfect location for everything from a quick weekend break to a permanent move overseas. While Brits and Germans have been heading to Spain for decades, Russian property investors and tourists have been a more recent addition. Russian buyers […]
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Monarch Airlines announces Summer 2015 flights to Alicante
Monarch Airlines has announced the launch of a new route from its summer 2015 schedule direct to Alicante from Leeds Bradford Airport. The schedule for summer 2015 from Leeds Bradford Airport includes flights to 10 sun and city destinations across Europe, with the introduction of new routes to Alicante and Naples. This is in addition […]
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Beat the hotel price rises by buying your own pad in Spain’s sun-kissed Costa Blanca
This summer has seen Brits heading abroad in their droves to take advantage of cheap sunshine breaks in the Costas. But it seems that Spain isn’t the cheap holiday destination that once it was, with recent data from the National Statistics Institute revealing that the price of hotels in the Iberian country has risen by […]
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Building a better future – Spanish construction sector is fastest growing in Europe
Spain has had enough of economic doom and gloom. The sun-kissed Iberian country has put its economic troubles behind it and is now leading Europe in the race to build a better and brighter future. Figures from EU statistics office Eurostat have shown that the Spanish construction sector has registered a massive year on year […]
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Scandinavians swoop in on Spain’s lucrative property market, says Knight Frank
Online searches for properties in Spain increased by 29% over the first three months of 2014 compared to the same period last year, data from Knight Frank’s Global Property Search has revealed. Converting the searches into results, more than a fifth of all Spanish residential sales – 55,187 transactions – were made by foreign buyers. […]
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Costa Blanca property is top of the wish list according to leading Spanish property portal
Leading online Spanish property portal Kyero.com‘s latest analysis of the forever popular Spanish property market identifies just where and what foreign buyers are looking for in terms of Spanish second homes. Kyero.com‘s enquiry report analysed enquiries made by email during the first quarter of 2014 showing that between January and June 2014 47% of enquiries […]