Property experts are predicting a boost for the Spanish property market with the country’s new residency investment visa set to attract a lot of buyers from outside the European Union. The long anticipated legislation granting non-EU nationals automatic Spanish residency via property investments has now officially been made law after being published in the state […]
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New property investment visa already boosting interest in Spanish property
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Marbella and Benidorm top Twitter trends
MARBELLA and Benidorm are two of the three most ´tweeted about´ Spanish beach destinations this summer, according to a Boom Business survey. The group searched tweets mentioning more than 50 different Spanish beach resorts, and found the two resorts were the second and third most mentioned of all destinations. They accounted for a combined 18.7% […]
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Falling Prices of Spain’s Luxury Homes Attracting Foreign Buyers
Spain’s luxury real estate market has become a magnet for wealthy buyers, especially foreigners and investment funds, looking for opportunities to acquire choice properties selling at discounts of nearly 20 percent due to the economic meltdown. Foreign buyers are drawn by Spain’s climate and a change in government policy that allows investors acquiring real estate […]
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Record Summer Predicted for Spanish Tourism
The President of the Spanish Federation of Travel Agencies (CEAV), Rafael Gallego, in a statement to Europa Press this week said that the tourism forecast for this summer, after one week into the season, is “pretty good”, with the number of domestic and international tourists in Spain expected to increase by an average of between […]
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Malaga on the up
Tourism numbers in Malaga, Spain, continue to grow in 2013. The latest data for the first five months of this year show an increase in overnight stays of 6.5 percent compared to the same period in 2012, with a total of 703 277. In June, the trend is likely to continue according to the Department […]
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Ryanair Launches Its Biggest Ever Winter Schedule
Ryanair celebrated the launch of its 2013 winter schedule by launching a 100,000 seat sale across its entire European network, with prices starting from just £22.99 for travel in September, which are available for booking until midnight (24:00hrs) Thur (11 July). Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said: “Ryanair is delighted to launch our 2013-14 winter schedule, with […]
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Top of the Props: Spanish property demand surges to new high
Demand for Spanish property has soared to a new high, according to TheMoveChannel.com’s Top of the Props. Spanish property overtook the USA in June 2013 to account for almost one in three enquiries on the property portal – the highest share ever recorded by a country on the site. Spain’s resurgence follows the unexpected return […]