property markets
October 14th, 2010
Two guides from Knight Frank paint a picture of what they believe will happen to the foreign buyer property market around the world. While the reports are not specific to the Spanish property market, the trends and conclusions make for interesting reading. The Knight Frank 2010 Global Property Wealth Survey concludes that ...
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July 6th, 2010
There seems to be renewed international interest in what's happening to the Spanish property market. Last week I spoke with a journalist from the Norwegian Financial Times who was trying to make sense of the official house price data and marry that with some market sentiment. Meanwhile, people are clearly ...
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April 14th, 2010
Buyers are back looking for holiday homes. Mortgage broker Conti Financial Services, which specialises in overseas mortgages, reports a big increase in mortgage applications and the busiest month for over a year. The foul winter in the UK has probably helped concentrate buyers’ minds on that place in the sun ...
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January 25th, 2010
Spanish house prices are still 55% above their fair value despite Spain’s property market crash, claimed a recent article in The Economist magazine that caused a stir in the Spanish press. But what nobody seemed to notice is that The Economist have got it wrong, for which we can blame ...
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October 27th, 2009
I am constantly frustrated by Spanish bureaucracy and how it negatively affects Spain's ability to compete in business internationally. However, this week, I caught sight of an article about Community Enterprise which praises Spain for its commercial initiatives in the 1950's: "The Mondragón cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain are perhaps ...
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September 8th, 2009
Over the summer months, the larger UK property portals reported best-ever numbers for visitors and enquiries. This is surprising for two reasons:There is normally a summer lull in traffic to property-related web sites. We're supposed to be in the middle of a recession. Perhaps even more surprisingly, visitors to Kyero.com increased ...
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August 27th, 2009
The problem that many Britons are facing is that the high value of the euro in relation to the pound has eroded the benefits that they could otherwise have gained from the falling Spanish property market. What's more, others are worried about how safe an investment made into Spanish bricks and ...
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July 30th, 2009
This cycle of bubble and bust in housing is drawing to a close. For many the ferocity of the bust and the collateral damage that followed was a shock, but bubbles and busts are not new; chances are there will be more. 1. All bubbles need a catalyst. Bubbles start in ...
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July 1st, 2009
Spanish house prices drop 7.6% in Q1 vs 5.4% in Q4 - First ever recorded fall in new house prices in Spain - Spanish slowdown behind Ireland, UK, recovery seen 2012 - Analysts see double-digit Spanish price falls this year Spanish house prices fell at their fastest pace on record in ...
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May 12th, 2009
If you already own a property in Spain and have let it out during the past five years, be sure to read UK Tax Break for Holiday Home Landlords in Spain. It may be that the Inland Revenue would like to give you some money.In Spanish State of the ...
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May 11th, 2009
European commercial property recovery not due till 2011 Falling rents puts potential European price rise on hold UK prices to fall 18 pct, rents to drop 11 pct in 2009 Spain to suffer strongest correction over next two years French, German markets to see milder repricing than Spain The decline in European commercial property capital ...
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April 30th, 2009
It's no secret that times are tough for property markets worldwide. The credit crunch, or "la crisis" as it is known in Spain, has had a major impact on the Spanish property market and it doesn't look like it's going to improve any time soon. I'm not going to go ...
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April 7th, 2009
Despite the weak pound, bolt holes in some of Europe's best-loved regions can be had for less than £150,000. Holiday homes abroad have dropped down the list of priorities recently, what with many of us being more concerned with paying the bills and holding on to our jobs. But for ...
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January 28th, 2009
A draft law introducing real estate investment trusts (REITs) in Spain is so complex and restrictive they would be of little use to property companies, Metrovacesa's legal chief warned on Thursday. Manuel Liedo told a property conference in Madrid that the bill, which is going through parliament, needed to shed ...
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December 24th, 2008
Spain's super-rich will emerge as the key investors in its troubled property sector next year and would do well to take up positions in the office market, the head of consultants Cushman & Wakefield said on Monday. Roger Cooke, Cushman's managing partner in Spain, said traditional investors like German property funds ...
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