Spanish island Mallorca is the most popular holiday destination for Swedes in 2015, 60 years after the first charter plane touched down there. While Sweden is currently basking in record spring temperatures, a new poll suggests that 43 percent of Swedes are planning to travel abroad this summer with Mallorca the most popular location. The […]
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Mallorca remains top sun spot for Swedish tourists
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Britons buying a home abroad still flock to Spain
Britons looking to buy a home abroad still flock to France and Spain with three-quarters of all potential buyers seeking out a property in these two old favourites, new findings suggest. Switzerland and the USA came joint third on the overseas property wish-list with falling property prices and prosperous surroundings triggering an upturn in interest. […]
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Holiday bonanza: European getaways get cheaper as pound soars to nine year high
With sterling at a nine-year high for tourists against the euro, Britons will see their cash go further abroad. Many resorts in popular destinations such as Spain, Greece and Portugal have also slashed prices. Money exchanges were yesterday offering holidaymakers up to 1.39 euros to the pound, 15 per cent more than last year. Some […]
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Rapidly expanding market drives up property employment in Spain
Spain’s property market is expanding rapidly once more, with the latest figures from the Spanish notaries showing a 19% year on year jump in the number of properties sold there during 2014. Prices are on the up too, with the Ministry of Public Works reporting a rise of 0.5% in Q4 2014, the first uptick […]
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Increasing number of Brits buying Spanish property
The number of British citizens buying holiday homes in Spain is on the rise once more. With the pound outperforming the euro in recent months, the interest in purchasing property overseas has soared, with a 48 per cent rise in the number of Brits looking to buy homes in Spain compared to this time 12 […]
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New coastal train set to open up Costa Blanca, bringing joy to property owners across the region
It is common knowledge that when the crisis struck, builders across Spain downed tools, leaving the country with a swathe of unfinished housing. But it wasn’t just developers who paused in their endeavours – infrastructure projects also suffered. Now, with more positive economic times on the horizon, one such project is being revisited by the […]
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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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Malaga boasts healthy tourism results
THE good news for the tourism industry continues, with Malaga getting 10 per cent more visitors in January than in the same month of 2014, During January, the province received a total of 199,246 tourists, according to the data released by the Socio-economical Observatory of Malaga’s Development and Quality Foundation (Madeca). Spanish residents who visited […]
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Iberia Group brings Mallorca closer
The Iberia Group, through its subsidiary Iberia Express, will launch non-stop flights from London to Mallorca, and to Gran Canaria and Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The airline will start connecting the Balearic capital from Heathrow’s T5 with one daily flight from the 1st of April, just in time for Easter. At the start of […]
