Archives for April 2006
April 6th, 2006
Last year it was reported that the Government had plans to buy land on the Mediterranean coast and on the archipelago of the Balearic and Canary Islands so as to prevent deterioration of the coastline through excessive development.This pioneering effort by the Spanish Government to protect the coastline, was announced ...
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April 4th, 2006
In a world where property prices are moving rapidly, it’s vital to have some means of accessing and digesting those movements. Kyero.com’s Price Guides have been analysing the Spanish property market for the past 12 months.There are more than 400 agents advertising over 60,000 properties on the database, with properties ...
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April 7th, 2006
The Brits’ love of property and of property investment is legendary and it appears to be a passion that is growing stronger.Partly thanks to the number of property investment programmes on television, more and more couples are deciding to retire abroad, while thousands of others decide to invest in foreign ...
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April 5th, 2006
Higher interest rates have failed to dampen Spaniards’ desire to become property owners, new figures reveal.Mortgage loans rose 37.7 percent in the first month of the year, compared with January 2005.The European Central Bank raised its interest rate for the first time in December, with the second rate hike ...
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April 10th, 2006
After announcing a ten month high in house price inflation for March last week, Nationwide released its first quarter report yesterday crediting the housing market with a ‘spring bounce’ right across the UK.The report says house price growth accelerated in all regions of the UK in the first quarter of ...
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April 3rd, 2006
I’m not sure what you call a double U turn, but Gordon Brown appears to have just performed one on SIPPs. As you may recall, when SIPPs, or Self Invested Personal Pensions, to give them their full name, were first announced as part of this month’s “A Day revolution”, the ...
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April 11th, 2006
Barcelona is one of the world’s most dynamic cities, with a rich blend of cultural delights and 24 hour hedonism. It’s situated between the Costa Brava and the Costa Daurada, which is a rugged and beautiful region, located on Spain’s north eastern tip. The Catalan capital, Barcelona resides on a ...
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April 25th, 2006
Agents Fadesa and Grupo Pinar, amongst others, implicated in MarbellaEl confidencial.com reported that in the case of Marbella a number of the big national property agents are being denounced for promoting as many as 82 works for irregularities on as many as 30,000 dwellings within the municipality of Malaga. Fadesa, ...
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April 24th, 2006
A bill to catch foreigners avoiding tax went before the Spanish parliament early this month and even before new legislation comes in, the crackdown has begun.A large number of Britons who let properties have not been telling the Spanish taxman and, after years of turning a blind eye, the authorities ...
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April 13th, 2006
Half of all mortages are for more than 100% of the property price El Periodico de Catalunya reported that nearly half of all property buyers in Spain who request a loan, need to finance more than 100% of the value of the property, according to the fifth annual study ...
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