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June 13th, 2013
A total of 29,208 agents from the Spanish National Police Force and the Guardia Civil will participate in this year's “Operation Summer” to be launched by the Interior Ministry on 1st July, to ensure the safety of the millions of tourists expected to visit Spain in the coming months. The operation, ...
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June 12th, 2013
According to data published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute, 8,938 new companies were created in Spain in April, representing an increase of 30.5% over the same month in 2012. This is the second increase so far this year, after February’s rise of 3.2%. The capital subscribed for their establishment ...
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May 30th, 2013
According to figures released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute, the number of mortgages on homes reached a new low in March, dropping by 34.1% over the same month of 2012, to stand at 16,270 transactions. The annual decline in March, with which mortgages have accumulated 35 consecutive months ...
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May 28th, 2013
In the first four months of the year Spain received 14 million international tourists, which is an increase of 2.5% over the same period of 2012, and the best figure of the past four years, according to the survey of tourist border movements, Frontur, published last week. The increase, which ...
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May 10th, 2013
The number of companies and individuals who filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of the year was 2,854, representing an increase of 22.8% over the same period of 2012. According to the latest Insolvency Proceedings Statistics published by the National Statistics Institute on Wednesday this week, one in four of ...
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May 8th, 2013
According to data released on Monday by the Ministry of Employment, registered unemployment in Spain fell in April for the second month in a row, bringing the figure down to below 5 million unemployed. The Ministry’s data reveals that the fourth month of the year saw a drop in the ...
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May 3rd, 2013
House prices in Spain fell by over 13% in 2012, even further than the declines registered in the years 2011 (-10.5%) and 2010 (-6.6%), and accumulated a drop in their value of around 30% since their peak levels in the first quarter of 2008. This is reflected in the 2012 statistical ...
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May 2nd, 2013
According to the Egatur Tourist Expenditure Survey, prepared by the Institute for Tourism Studies of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, inbound tourists to Spain spent 3.28 billion euros in March, which is an increase of 13.7% over the same month of 2012. The average spend per person of ...
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April 25th, 2013
The Andalusian government approved a decree last week under which, in the most extreme cases, the homes of the most needy families subject to eviction proceedings initiated by banks, will be embargoed by the region for a maximum of three years. The Andalusian commissioner responsible for public works and housing, Elena ...
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April 24th, 2013
According to the 2011 Census conducted by the National Statistics Institute, the number of empty homes in Spain has grown by 10.8% in the last decade, reaching 3,443,365. This percentage increase is equivalent to an increase in absolute numbers of 336,943 houses. Galicia, La Rioja and Murcia are the regions with ...
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April 17th, 2013
According to figures released at the end of last week by the National Statistics Institute, home sales in February rose by 17.3%, to 35,486 transactions. Since the Institute's report is prepared from property register data referring to closed sales from about two months previously, these figures do not reveal the real ...
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April 15th, 2013
According to data released last week by the National Statistics Institute, 8,644 new companies were created in February, which is 5.2% more than the same month of last year, while at the same time the number of companies dissolved in the month rose by 13.9%, to 2,568. Accumulated figures for ...
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April 3rd, 2013
Global demand for holiday rental accommodation in Spain during Easter Holy Week this year increased by 29% compared to Easter of 2012, according to statistics from the Spanish Internet holiday rental portal, Homeaway.es. Demand for accommodation in Spain by European and American tourists saw an increase of 33%, and domestic tourism ...
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March 27th, 2013
According to the latest tourist border movement survey (FRONTUR), prepared by the Institute of Tourism Studies for the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Spain received a total of 2,797,123 tourists from abroad in February 2013, which is virtually the same figure as for the same month of last year. ...
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March 20th, 2013
The Spanish Government’s entire public administration debt increased by 20.1% in 2012 compared to the previous year, and amounted to 884,416 million euros, which is equivalent to 84.1% of the gross domestic product (GDP), and the highest level of the entire historical series. In 2011, this figure was 736,468 million ...
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