Archives for ministry of housing

September 4th, 2006

There’s a new ‘big-picture’ price guide available now - just download it from our Price Guide page. It’s a quick overview of which Spanish provinces are above and below the national average - conveniently arranged, side-by-side on a graph.This new format is really easy to understand and shows up ...

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September 25th, 2006

Danny Lawrence emailed us with some strong thoughts about our price guides. In this article, Danny shares his concerns and Martin Dell of Kyero.com attempts an answer. Take it away Danny..!I have just browsed through your new price guide and whilst I appreciate that it represents a huge amount of ...

Continue reading Kyero.com versus Ministry of Housing

October 30th, 2007

In this week's news, there's a good pair of articles about Spanish developer Llanera running out of money and the more general credit crunch in Spain at the moment. My mailbox was inundated this week with many more news stories of doom and gloom - mostly about the overheated property market ...

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November 6th, 2007

Last week we updated our Spanish house price index and posted an article comparing our statistics to those from the Spanish Ministry of Housing. The whole price index section also got a bit of a makeover to make it easier to find price-related articles. If you feel like having a ...

Continue reading Different Perspectives of Spain

November 27th, 2007

I had to laugh. Just back from Las Vegas and I find that the Spanish are to build their own rival in Aragon. The climate will be a little different from Nevada though - Most of Aragon enjoys decidedly seasonal weather. We receive more and more questions about property prices ...

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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 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 14th, 2007

The autonomous community of Aragon is tucked away in the Northeastern corner of the stunning Mediterranean nation of Spain - and whilst Aragon is rich in culture, rich in history, rich in traditions and also rich in GDP and employment prospects, it is poor in terms of what is known ...

Continue reading Aragon: Spain’s Wealthy Community of Contrasts and Culture

January 2nd, 2008

A customer from Wiltshire asks "I have found the kyero website to be an excellent source of information on Spanish property. One thing that I haven't been able to find though has been a source of information that tells a potential buyer of the actual price a property has been sold ...

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January 10th, 2008

Concern over the financial problems confronting young people in Spain deepened yesterday after it emerged that more than 200,000 applied for a new housing grant within hours of it coming into force. So great was demand for the new state handout that two government-supported websites crashed within two days ...

Continue reading Rush to Claim Crashes State Websites