Whenever you go on holiday abroad, it’s always best to keep your wits about you and try to ensure that you don’t fall for any of the common ways in which tourists are often ‘taken for a ride’. Getting caught out by one canny opportunist could be an incredibly costly mistake, and could even end [...]
The average price of renting a property in Spain rose by 1.5% during the second quarter of this year, according to a study carried out by Fotocasa and the IESE Business School. This is the first time that the cost to rent a home has gone up in the last 12 quarters, or 3 years. [...]
Property investors, and investors of all kinds, in fact, have had their eye on Spanish real estate for some time now. So much so that during the first 6 months of this year, they have invested a total of 6 billion euro into distressed properties in this country. According to the report by Cushman & [...]
We thought that with the regulation of the energy sector and a new system being put in place after the Government stepped in that, that would be the end of our electricity bill increase nightmares and the service would resume some kind of normality. That’s what we were led to believe, but that quite possibly [...]
If you have ever visited Spain on holiday and stayed in an apartment for the duration of your vacation, it is possible that you have been put up in an illegal tourist apartment. It has been estimated that there are currently half a million of these apartments that are rented out temporarily to tourists when [...]
It’s possibly slightly ironic that with so many people losing their homes in Spain, a recent study carried out by the European Central Bank has revealed that the Spanish own more second homes than practically every other European nation. In actual fact, 36.2% of the Spanish population has a second residence and are only surpassed [...]
Property experts Fotocasa have published a report on the rental situation in Spain for 2013. They have calculated that the amount of money owners can charge to rent out their property has dropped in 96% of Spanish municipalities. In fact, rental prices have only increased in 7 municipalities and remained the same in two when compared to [...]
