Archives for December 2007
December 7th, 2007
The director general of Architecture and Housing, Rafael Pacheco, has predicted that house prices in Spain will rise by 4% by the end of 2007. This is 1.3% less than the last official data released by the Ministry of Housing in October, when property prices were rising by 5.3%. Pacheco confirmed ...
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December 6th, 2007
The Costa Blanca has been named as the most popular domestic holiday spot among Spaniards. According to a report from the Typically Spanish website, the region overtook both the Canary Islands and the Balearics in terms of its tourist numbers last month. More than 153,000 Spanish nationals were said to have visited ...
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December 5th, 2007
British tourists have been flocking to the small Canary Island of Lanzarote for decades. This tiny speck of Spain just off the coast of Africa attracted over 850,000 visitors from the UK alone in 2006. And is now a permanent home to over 5,000 British expatriates – the largest group ...
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December 4th, 2007
I'm in London at the moment attending the OPP Live exhibition - a business to business show for those working in the overseas property industry. I'll be one of the panelists discussing the state of the Spanish property market - so I've been doing some digging into the official statistics from ...
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December 4th, 2007
Home Seller Packs have been a hot topic recently both amongst estate agents and the general public in the UK In many respects it is rather surprising that something which seems relatively sensible should cause such fierce debate and controversy. Much of that has been due the breadth of information ...
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December 3rd, 2007
Winter 2007/2008 looks like being a great season for Spain's skiing industry, with resorts from the Pyrenees to the Sierra Nevadas opening on December 1st. Last year, the warm winter was pretty dreadful for the Spanish skiing industry. Many Spaniards enjoy getting onto the slopes in the fortnight before Christmas, but ...
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