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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Spanish property on the up as penthouses command 30% price premiums
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Marbella’s Property Heats-up
Spanish property prices have recently reported price growth after six years in the doldrums, suggesting the bottom of the market has been reached and rebound is on the way. Much of the transaction activity has taken place in the world-renowned millionaire’s playground of Marbella, with wealthy overseas buyers snapping up the majority of prestige property […]
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Sunny Spain: the Great Escape
Spain’s sun-drenched Costal del Sol remains the ultimate golfing hotspot and great golfing escape, the place and destination to go to when the weather turns particularly nasty in the UK. The Costa del Sol in Andalucia encapsulates everything that has made Spain the firm favourite for the travelling golfer for many years; welcoming hosts, a […]
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Beat the hotel price rises by buying your own pad in Spain’s sun-kissed Costa Blanca
This summer has seen Brits heading abroad in their droves to take advantage of cheap sunshine breaks in the Costas. But it seems that Spain isn’t the cheap holiday destination that once it was, with recent data from the National Statistics Institute revealing that the price of hotels in the Iberian country has risen by […]
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Gastronomy and wine attracting 74% of our tourists
GASTRONOMY and wine are the main reason for 74 per cent of British tourists when it comes to choosing Spain as their holiday destination. These are the results of a study created by Mintel holidays to Spain-UK, where it states that 54 percent are interested in buying authentic products without caring where they are produced, […]
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There’s more to Mallorca than Magaluf, as record numbers of tourists are discovering
It seems that tourists everywhere have been packing their sun cream and heading off to Spain this year for some summer beach time. 2014 has seen millions of foreign visitors flock to Spanish shores, with a record 8.3 million in July alone – up 5.9% year on year, according to the country’s tourism ministry. Industry […]
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Mallorca : On the Up !
MALLORCA welcomed more than 3.7 million passengers through Palma de Mallorca airport last month. The record number of passengers is a 5.5 per cent increase compared to August 2013, with 5.6 per cent more operations carried out; a total of 25,592 flights. The domestic market continued its recovery with a growth of 11.1 per cent […]
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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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All aboard! World’s largest cruise liner set to visit Malaga amid soaring Andalucía tourist figures
The gateway to Spain’s Costa del Sol, the municipality of Malaga is steeped in culture and history, from its contemporary art centre to its two Moorish castles and museum dedicated to the city’s most famous son – Pablo Picasso. It is also home to some of Spain’s finest beaches, with wide expanses of sand at […]
