Archives for July 2006
July 11th, 2006
Prices have dropped by 1.7 per cent, but only in the last three months. From one year to the next the rise was 14 per cent on average. The recent slowing down of the property market on the Costa del Sol has now made its way into the statistics on ...
Continue reading Prices in Malaga Stabilise
July 10th, 2006
A new scheme in Salinas, Alicante at last allows property buyers to buy a small piece of agricultural land, rather than the minimum 10,000 sqm required elsewhere in Spain. Not only that, but they will also provide help with growing small-scale crops on the land.Current Spanish legislation to protect the ...
Continue reading Owning a Spanish Farm
July 7th, 2006
Traffic authorities claimed that the immediate results of the new penalty points system were evident this weekend as the number of deaths in accidents caused by reckless driving fell sharply with respect to the same weekend last year. The Government hopes that the penalty points system will act as a ...
Continue reading New Spanish Penalty Points System
July 6th, 2006
Spain is one of many countries suffering from water shortages. Part of the reason for this has been the heavy reliance on water, the consumption of which has risen due to agriculture and tourism in those areas of the south where water supply is at its least. Part of the ...
Continue reading Drought, Fire, Poverty and Ecology
July 5th, 2006
The biggest global housing boom in three decades may end not with a bang, but with an extended whimper that will keep the economy growing.Markets for dwellings in the United States, France, Spain, New Zealand and parts of China are slowing down as home-price inflation slows in response to higher ...
Continue reading World Housing Boom Cooling
July 4th, 2006
New transport links are opening up reaches of southern Andalucia to British home buyers, keen on the culture of the bodegas and the bullfight. In Jerez, the three barrel signs of the sherry bodegas are as common as the oranges peeping out from the leafy trees on every street corner. ...
Continue reading Taste and Tempo of Old Spain
July 3rd, 2006
The Costa de la Luz, stretching for 417km from Tarifa to the Portuguese border, has been and still is often described as ‘the hidden Costa’ or the ‘undiscovered Costa’, although those on the ground would argue that neither of these descriptions are particularly accurate anymore. In fact the Costa de ...
Continue reading Youngest Costa is Coming of Age
