Spain
Retirees find comfort in British sense of community – in Spain
Once again crime and weather are to blame for the record number of over 55s wanting to leave the UK. New research from the Foreign Office divulges that more than four in ten Brits nearing retirement age are considering doing it abroad.
A piece of Mallorca – The ultimate original gift
If we’re being honest, ‘original gift idea’ is not something that most people are experts on. Particularly when faced with the trickiest of recipient – the ‘one who has everything’. Step in the solution - a Piece of Mallorca.
Brits abroad to benefit from deregulation of Spanish landlines
Telefonica line rental, customer services and itemised phone bills are now all available in English, due to the deregulation of landlines in Spain. Thanks to the CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciónes), its now possible for Spanish property occupiers to switch their telecom provider and allow other multilingual operators to manage their Telefonica landline.
Murcia reports biggest price rises in Spain
According to Facilismo.com, Spain’s number one property portal, Murcia has posted the highest house price rises of all the nation’s autonomous regions at 0.24%. This makes it one of a select quartet of communities showing positive growth in January 2010 with Valencia in second at 0.11%, Cantabria third with 0.09% followed by the Basque Country with 0.06%.
Mercers adjusts Jerez property portfolio to match demand
Whilst there’s little doubt that life is returning to the Spanish property market, it still remains utterly price sensitive. Overpriced homes simply won’t sell. For real estate agent Mercers, this has meant a conscious shift in its Jerez property portfolio towards the best value, and most profitable, options for this economic climate.
YouTube videos provide previews of Spain’s Desert Springs
Scores of hitherto unseen videos produced by the Cheltenham-based Almanzora Group are the first to go online on the YouTube website to provide news and previews of year-round properties, holidays, golf and other facilities on offer at Desert Springs, Europe’s only award-winning luxury desert resort and golf course in the Almeria region of south-east Spain.
Shared ownership homes in Almanzora from £24k
A new David Lloyd Resort opening this month in south-east Spain is offering holiday homes for sale on a shared-ownership basis at prices as low as £24,000 with a potential for investment benefit.
Pitiful pound helps buyers and sellers arrive at a good price
At first glance it’s tricky to work out how buying a villa in Spain in 2000 for €122,000 euros and selling in 2010 for €85,000 euros can be seen as anything but an unmitigated disaster. But actually the client’s getting a bargain and the vendor’s making a profit. How? Answer - the vendor’s British.
Safe Purchase Spain gives confidence to buyers
“Safe Purchase Spain” is the biggest thing to happen to Spain for years” says Des Rowson, Committee member of NAEA International including FOPDAC, Chairman of NAEA Essex and Senior Partner of DLR Properties Overseas, specialists in the sale of homes in Spain.
Expats driven back to UK by strong Euro
Research from reallymoving.com, the UK's leading provider of instant online quotes for home-movers, reveals that UK expats are returning home in their droves as the weak pound has sent the cost of living in the Eurozone soaring.
Spanish property market ultra price sensitive
Whilst indeed the press reports are correct, the Spanish property market has started to whirr back into motion, it remains highly price sensitive. Basically only if the price is right will the property sell.
British home owners in Spain set to reclaim thousands
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in a landmark legal case that the Spanish government has illegally overcharged non Spanish residents Capital Gains Tax (CGT) by 133% from 1997 up until December 2006. The ruling now paves the way for a possible £283 million refund from the Spanish government to UK citizens alone.
Bargain properties on Spain’s Costa Calida
September was Mercers’ best sales month this year. Put simply the buying public are after bargains and that’s exactly what they’re getting on the Costa Calida.
Mercers awarded Best Real Estate Agency Spain
Thriving in a tricky marketplace, Spanish real estate agent Mercers has just seen a good year get even better with the announcement of a ‘Best Real Estate Agency Spain’ Award for the second year running.
Rent2Buy suited to Spanish property market
Long-established award-winning real estate agent, Mercers, has just launched its newest concept which is ideally suited to today’s Spanish property market - Rent2Buy. With purchasers hesitating and vendors despondent, a Rent2Buy arrangement bridges a win-win gap between the two.