regional authorities
September 15th, 2006
Michael Cashman, the Labour MEP who has been defending the fundamental rights of victims of land abuses in several regions of Spain attacked the “underhanded party politics” of the Spanish Partido Popular prior to a vote in the European Parliament today. Carlos Iturgaiz MEP and member of the EPP group (European ...
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April 25th, 2007
Spain is coming under renewed pressure to change its ‘land grab’ laws following adoption of an EU report branding the current position a violation of human rights. The report comes from the Petitions Committee, of which UK MEP Michael Cashman is vice chairman. Co-author of the report, which has now been ...
Continue reading Damning report brings pressure for Spanish property law change
February 26th, 2008
Thanks to Property Pulse reader, Judith Robinson, we tracked down an article about a new UN report criticising property speculation in Spain. (Thankfully, someone wrote an article summarising the report because the UN website is a convoluted mass of broken links and mystery navigation.) Aside from the issues I wrote about ...
Continue reading UN Shines a Light on Spain Town Councils
July 30th, 2008
The Spanish Government will buy €300m of land over the next few years to meet the demand for state-subsidised housing. According to reports from Reuters the Spanish Government has announced that it is going to buy 300m of land over the next four years for state-subsidised housing. However, it insists the move ...
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February 20th, 2009
This month, a petition will be delivered to Number 10, suggesting that Gordon Brown picks up the phone and talks personally with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero about Spanish real estate and the UK investor. The document demands he lodge a complaint on behalf of thousands of British ...
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March 30th, 2009
The European Parliament today approved a report slamming Spain for all manner of evils relating to the Spanish property sector, including the ‘land grab’ and Ley de Costas scandals that have created so much misery for home owners in Spain. The report, by Danish MEP (Greens) Margrete Auken, paints a depressing ...
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April 29th, 2009
A British couple who were forced to live in their garage when the Spanish government knocked their £600,000 Spanish villa over supposed building irregularities have been told the demolition was illegal. Len and Helen Prior, who retired to southern Spain from Berkshire six years ago, became the first British expatriates to ...
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June 3rd, 2009
News that thousands of homes owned by Britons on the Costa del Sol will not be demolished, despite being declared illegal, should help to stimulate the moribund property market in Spain. Steep price falls and bumper discounts on some new-build homes, as well as the gradual strengthening of sterling, are also ...
Continue reading Costa del Sol Bargains: Soon to be Legalised
April 22nd, 2010
A number of Spanish local and regional authorities are backing an ambitious plan to help clear the backlog of unsold stock of Spanish property. The Spanish Homes Network (SHN) is a trading platform where international agents can source completed properties that have undergone legal due diligence by one of the big ...
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July 13th, 2010
Finally, a political initiative from Spain’s regional political parties that makes some sense. The Coalición Canaria (CC) party from The Canaries has drummed up enough support from opposition parties such as CiU, a regional party from Catalonia, to debate new proposals to water down some aspects of the Ley de ...
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