European Tour season is warming up as the tour coordinating committee announced on Tuesday, January 31 that the 2012 Open de Andalucía will be returning to Aloha Golf Club on Spain’s Costa del Sol after a lapse of three years. Spain has been one of the most visited venues on the European Tour calendar in […]
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European Tour announces return of Open de Andalucía at Aloha Golf Club in Spain
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New NIE procedure ‘won’t affect Spanish property market’
From 3 January 2012 the Spanish authorities have changed the rules on how foreign property buyers obtain their fiscal identification number or NIE. A power of attorney is no longer acceptable and every purchaser has to attend in person, either in Spain or at their local Embassy. An NIE, abbreviation for Número de Identificación de […]
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Happy Days
Brits who have moved to Spain are the happiest expatriates (expats), according to a new survey. The research, carried out by Lloyds TSB International and published by The Telegraph, revealed that 75.9 per cent of those questioned said they were happier living in Spain than they had been in the UK. Overall, 68% of those asked […]
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Spain sees rise in tourist arrivals for second straight year
The number of foreign visitors to Spain rose for the second year in a row in 2011, helped by a surge in tourists from its main market Britain, provisional government figures showed Tuesday. The country welcomed 56.9 million foreign tourists last year, an 8.1 percent increase over 2010, Tourism Minister Jose Manuel Soria told a […]
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A favourable exchange
Spain’s housing market is looking increasingly attractive to Brits as online currency exchange rates are proving favourable for investors from the UK. This is according to head of Spanish Property Insight Mark Stucklin, who explained how the pound is currently up above 1.20 against the euro and this looks likely to continue throughout the year. He commented […]
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Latest report identifies what buyers want from Spanish property in 2012
Having waved goodbye to what was a relatively tough year for the global property market, Kyero.com’s latest analysis of the forever popular Spanish property market highlights some interesting findings, identifying that foreign buyers will continue to look for bargain properties focusing in Spain’s best known areas. Kyero.com’s enquiry report analysed almost 130,000 enquiries made by […]
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Malaga : City of Museums
Málaga is the capital of Costa del Sol. You can come to enjoy its shops, the Historic District, the fine weather and the extensive beaches. What to see: Roman Theatre, Alcazaba or Arab Fortress, Gibralfaro Castle, Cathedral, Picasso Museum, Church of Santiago, Plaza de la Merced, and much more. Exhibition: Alberto Giacometti. Retrospective The Museo Picasso […]
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Hotel Occupancy Rose by 1.7% in November
Spanish hotels recorded 14.6 million overnight stays in November, representing an increase of 1.7% over the same month of 2010, while prices fell by 0.3%, a tenth lower than in November 2010, according to figures released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The increase in hotel occupancy experienced in November was mainly as […]
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Properties sold to foreign residents in Spain increase by 24.7% in third quarter of 2011
Property sales made by foreign residents in Spain experienced an increase of 24.7% in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year according to statistics from The Ministry of Public Transactions. This figure takes into account all foreigners who live and resident in Spain while further statistics show that the provinces […]
