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March 13th, 2006
If you escape often to your second home in the Loire Valley or enjoy spending August sipping sherry at tapas bars off the Plaza Mayor, you might want to consider setting aside some euros ahead of time to finance your excursions. The tough part is working out the best ...
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April 18th, 2006
House price growth has remained strong in Spain and investors continue to flock to the country with the intention of making considerable returns, both through rental income and capital gains.As reported by the Spain Herald this week, average house prices are now higher than €6,000 (£4,146) per square metre in ...
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May 9th, 2006
Lying within the peaks of the Cantabrian mountain range, Asturias is one of Spain’s northernmost regions. With historic towns, rugged coastline and mountainous peaks, almost a third of Asturian territory has been declared protected natural space. Asturias Costa Verde (Green Coast) runs for 145 kilometres and is one of the ...
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September 13th, 2006
Hugging the northern coastline from west to east, much of the Celtic-influenced Green Spain has a wet climate familiar to northern Europeans. But a diverse collection of provinces, including resurgent arts centre Bilbao, plus Rioja country give it a special appeal. If ever a building reinvented a city then the ...
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January 11th, 2007
With temperatures dropping still further as we start the long haul to spring, it’s the time of year when many Britons fly south. Some 2.5 million of us own holiday homes abroad and, according to Halifax estate agents, that is set to double in the next five years. The most popular ...
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June 27th, 2007
According to a survey carried out by the Organisation for Consumers and Users (OCU) Pamplona, Bilbao and Gijón are considered to be the best places to live in Spain. More than 10,000 people in the OCU survey, carried out in collaboration with associations that are members of Euroconsumers. In the survey, ...
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July 23rd, 2007
A new computer programme will allow the tax authorities to know instantly about the sale of a house, and whether the declared price is fictitious. Big Brother is lending a helping hand to the tax inspector. In the near future, the tax authorities will know immediately of the sale of ...
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October 10th, 2007
THOUSANDS of British people with second homes abroad are the latest to face a payment shock following the global credit crunch, as lenders across Europe raise their rates and tighten up their criteria. British borrowers with euro mortgages, which have been popular in recent years because they have tended to be ...
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November 7th, 2007
Holidaymakers are at risk of costly mistakes at overseas ATMs because of the growing use of a practice known as "dynamic currency conversion". The confusing choice over whether to withdraw currency at your own bank's exchange rate or at an alternative rate offered by the company that owns the overseas ATM ...
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April 11th, 2008
Windmills pay. On a breezy Saturday at the end of March, Aeolian Parks scattered across the hill-top ridges and off-shore sandbanks of Spain produced 40.8pc of the country's electricity needs - 9,862 megawatts to be precise. The much-derided turbines produced enough wattage to power the great cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, ...
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