Figures published by Fastighetsbyrån, part of Swedish banking group Swedbank, suggest Swedish and Norwegian property buyers have pushed hard into the Spanish residential property market, as British and German buyers have withdrawn in the past half-decade. Figures for property transactions over the past four years provided by Fastighetsbyrån’s Spanish market business The Real Estate Agency, […]
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Swedes, Norwegians lead charge to buy Spanish property
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Jet2.com takes off to Alicante
Jet2.com brought a taste of Spain to Edinburgh Airport today as it prepared to say ‘adios’ to its inaugural flight to Alicante, which jetted off last Friday 30th March – taking sun-seekers to the popular Costa Blanca. To celebrate the leading leisure airline’s first flight to its sixth Spanish destination from Edinburgh, Jet2.com’s Edinburgh Station […]
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Calculate the rental potential of your holiday home with HomeAway
A new online tool which enables overseas property owners to calculate how much rental they can expect to achieve for their property has been launched by HomeAway.co.uk. In a competitive market, making sure that your property offers value for money is extremely important, and the easy to use tool enables those considering a rental to […]
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Iberia Express reveals first routes
IAG’s new no-frills airline Iberia Express has announced its first routes when the carrier begins services on Sunday. Iberia’s new carrier will fly initially between Madrid and Palma in Majorca, Alicante, Malaga and Seville on March 25. Iberia Express will expand this to 17 destinations from Madrid for the summer including eight further Spanish destinations, […]
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What holiday renters really want
Spanish holiday rental specialists, España Breaks, have produced a beautiful chart of what features of a holiday let property actually makes a difference to those renting them. January remains the most important indicator of booking patterns in the annual holiday season so we decided to analyse our 2012 enquiry data to see how key […]
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Just can’t get enough! Spain most popular holiday destination for Brits over Easter
Once again, Spain continues to be the most popular holiday destination for Brits over the Easter period with data from Carehiremarket.com revealing that from the 31st March to 15th April, 35% of UK holiday makers hiring a car through the company booked a holiday to Spain. Marc Pritchard, Sales and Marketing Manager of leading house […]
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Your Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun Live is the perfect place to meet prospective agents when you’re thinking of buying a property overseas. And as you are already in touch ww would like to offer you free tickets to come and visit us at Earls Court London on 30th March – 1st April 2012. A Place in […]
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Holiday car hire prices drop by up to 45% in two years across sunshine hotspots
New research from TravelSupermarket has revealed that car hire is now up to 45 per cent cheaper than two years ago for key holiday periods in 2012. Car hire prices across Malaga, Alicante, Murcia, Palma, Tenerife and Faro all saw a drop in price from 2010 across Easter and Whit Week, with six of the […]
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2012 kicks off with 4.6% rise in tourism
Great news for Spain this morning: Almost 2.8 million foreign tourists came to Spain last month, a 4.6 percent increase on January 2011, according to ThinkSpain.com. These latest figures compiled by Frontur and released today by the Ministry of Industry show an increase of 122,000 foreign visitors in January 2012 compared with the same month […]
