Hot off the heels of and in contrast to last month’s INE figures which revealed a 3% decline in the overall number of property transactions made in Spain in 2012, the latest data from the General Council of Notaries has revealed a substantial 28.4% increase in the number of foreign and non-resident buyers of Spanish […]
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Numbers of foreign Spanish property buyers back to pre-recession levels
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Spain tells British expats to declare overseas assets
Residents of Spain with assets outside it worth over €50,000 are being reminded they are to declare everything by 30 April 2013 – with hefty penalties in store for those who don’t. The new decree is designed to allow those sitting ‘under the radar’ to declare funds worth over €50,000 held overseas in all bank […]
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311% increase in Scandinavian sales as buyers swoop on the Spanish property market
With Moody’s downgrading the UK, Italy struggling to form a political coalition and Eurozone unemployment at record highs, you might think Europe was a lost cause but think again. Across the North Sea, our Scandinavian neighbours have in fact weathered the financial storm better than most. Indeed the Nordic financial model operated in Norway, Denmark, […]
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Russian tourists boost Spain’s tourism sector
Big-spending Russian tourists are flocking to Spain’s beaches and famous landmarks in ever greater numbers, providing a much-needed boost to the recession-hit country’s key tourism industry. They are drawn by the country’s mix of pleasant weather, sandy beaches, historic monuments. and cultural attractions such as the Prado museum in Madrid and Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada The […]
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New Mallorca Rocks Headliners Revealed
ELLIE GOULDING, DIZZEE RASCAL, THE VACCINES, RIZZLE KICKS, REDLIGHT & PALMA VIOLETS JOIN JAKE BUGG & EXAMPLE ON THE SUMMER’S HOTTEST BILL Hot weather, cool accommodation and 16 weeks of phenomenal live gigs under the Balearic stars with the most in-demand live acts and DJ’s on the planet… It can only be Mallorca Rocks! We can […]
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Picasso’s earliest works in Málaga
In the late 19th century, Malaga was a city full of contrasts. The enterprising spirit of the bourgeois classes had resulted in there being over 150 registered factories here in 1878. A large part of the population worked in them, with working hours of up to seventy hours a week. Described in travel books as […]
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Ryanair returns to Alicante
At the end of January El Altet airport had seen 12 consecutive months of declining passenger numbers showing a loss of approximately 1 million travelers in 2012. It was only the Nordic tourism boom and the slightly improved, and ever-faithful, British passenger throughput that ensured the figures weren’t even worse. However, after a terrible 2012, […]
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Boost to low season flights to Palma de Mallorca Airport
The Government has been in talks with airlines operating in Russia, Scandinavia, Britain and other central European countries as they try to secure an increase in the number of flights to Mallorca during the off-peak season. One of the main complaints from tourists and second-home owners in Mallorca has been about the lack of flights […]
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Live in paradise at Villajoyosa, home to Taylor Wimpey España’s latest frontline luxury development
Villajoyosa is one of the most charming towns you will find in the Alicante region of Spain. For years, it was remembered for its iconic brightly-coloured fishermen’s houses providing an unusual backdrop to the award winning beaches. Now, it is also known as ‘chocolate city’ due to it being the home of the delicious Valor […]
