THE average rent for an apartment on the beach front in Torrevieja has risen by 23 per cent, compared to prices in 2014. According to the annual report of an appraisal company with nearly 50 offices spread throughout Spain, the average weekly rent of front line properties in Spain this summer was up seven per […]
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Prices leap for summer rentals in Torrevieja
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€58,000 for Torrevieja’s cultural programme
TORREVIEJA has released the Spring cultural programme showing what is on offer throughout April, May and June. Councillor for Culture, Luis Maria Pizana, was accompanied by the coordinator of Culture, Manuel Esteban Moreno, as they presented the programme which has a total of 224 acts and an overall budget of €58,000. Among the scheduled activities […]
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Costa Blanca sees best Easter in decades
THE best Easter of the decade. That’s how Costa Blanca hoteliers and restaurateurs are describing the Easter weekend on the coast. Hotel occupancy in towns like Benidorm reached nearly 100 per cent and restaurants said they had had a “very positive” result from the first major holiday period of the year. President of the Hosbec […]
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Coastal upgrades for Torrevieja
A TOTAL of €505,118 has been invested by Alicante Coastal Service to undertake repairs and emergency measures along the promenades of La Mata and Playa de Los Locos in Torrevieja. Government Delegate in Valencia, Serafin Castilian, visited the works in a section of the municipal park of the Molina de Agua in La Mata, accompanied […]
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Get in party spirit for carnival time in Alicante
CARNIVAL 2015 is underway. Torrevieja leads the way in the Mardi Gras-style celebrations that sweep across Alicante Province in the coming weeks. The city has already had the declarations and coronation of the Carnival Queens at the Municipal Theatre, and the eighth annual Drag Queen Contest, now an ever-popular event in Torrevieja’s cultural calendar, was […]
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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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Spanish property on the up as penthouses command 30% price premiums
Spain’s property market is on the up, as a flood of foreign investors are snapping up bargain properties following years of tumbling prices. Provisional July figures from the National Statistics Institute have indicated that home sales increased by 10.7% compared with the same month in 2013, with 28,583 transactions in total. The July figures mark […]
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Tourist figures up again in Torreveija
While July and August water consumption increased in Torrevieja by 1.08% over those recorded last summer, hotel occupancy during July exceeded 80%, while in August the figure reached 85%. That figure increased to over 90% occupancy during the August Assumption weekend. The statistics were released last week by Councillor for Tourism, Luis María Pizana. The […]
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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 […]
