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Atletico Madrid win bad-tempered Copa del Rey final
Sat, 18 May 2013 00:57:51 +0200

Atletico Madrid came from behind to win a fiery Copa del Rey final tonight against neighbours Real Madrid.Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off in extra time and Jose Mourinho was sent to the stands in a bad-tempered encounter at ...

Hunt for expatriate with Parkinson's missing in Moraira
Mon, 13 May 2013 17:17:06 +0200

POLICE in Moraira (Alicante) are searching for an elderly expatriate who disappeared after going out for a walk. Bernhard Schulz, 74, lives in Hamburg (Germany) and was spending a ...

PAH stages 'escrache' on Rajoy at motor fair
Sat, 11 May 2013 13:01:28 +0200

A FLASH-MOB siege aimed at president Mariano Rajoy yesterday staged by anti-repossession protesters filled the Plaza de Espana in Barcelona yesterday.

Police officers suffer sickness and headaches from cannabis plants held at station
Sat, 11 May 2013 04:49:53 +0200

POLICE union leaders have complained that officers in Benidorm are suffering unpleasant health problems as a result of a massive haul of cannabis plants stored at the station.

After much dithering, the Spanish Government has let it be known it plans to raise the residency-permit investment hurdle to €500,000, which will buy non-EU nationals residency for the duration of their investment.

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The Nota Simple is one of the most important documents used in the Spanish property conveyancing process. If you ever buy or sell a property in Spain, you are bound to need a nota simple. This great FAQ by Raymundo Larraín Nesbitt answers all your questions about the Nota Simple. What is a Nota Simple and how do you get one?

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One of the poster children of the Spanish property boom will be liquidated after almost six years of trying to stave off the inevitable, leaving many British victims in its wake.

The post Spanish developer Llanera to be closed down appeared first on Spanish Property Insight.

As expected, the Spanish property market took a nosedive in March after tax breaks for buyers expired, and fell below 20,000 sales for only the second time since the crisis began.

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Holiday lettings in Catalonia will soon be controlled by restrictive local laws, as the Government in Madrid moves to devolve the regulation of holiday rentals to Spain’s 17 autonomous regions. The national Government in Madrid is changing the national tenancy act (Ley de Arrendamientos Urbanos) to devolve the regulation of holiday rentals to regional governments, where powerful local hotel lobbies are eager to put the cosh on competition from private landlords. Holiday-home owners in Catalonia, as elsewhere, will have to bone up on local laws to avoid fines for engaging in illegal holiday rentals. Most won’t bother, or won’t even know about it, and will carry on as before. In Catalonia, tourist rentals are covered by decree 159/2012 of December 2012. This distinguishes between tourist apartments (apartamentos turísitcos) and homes used by tourists (viviendas de uso turístico).

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This is the first in a series of occasional articles about life in Spain, written by guest contributor Chris Stewart, the best-selling author of ‘Driving Over Lemons’, from his organic farm in the Alpujarras of Andalucia (the foothills of Spain’s Sierra Nevada Mountain) where he lives with his wife Annie and a misanthropic parrot.

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Who knows how far the Spanish property market would have sunk without foreign buyers in 2012?

The post Foreign buyers kept the wheels on the Spanish jalopy in 2012 appeared first on Spanish Property Insight.

Russian and Scandinavian buyers beat Brits as biggest purchasers of Spanish property according to Taylor Wimpey España

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The currency markets have been likened to the Great British weather this last month; gloomy for long periods with a few sunny days that promises much but delivers very little before the clouds gather once more.

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Under the guise of protecting families from home repossessions, the Government of Andalucia, or Junta, introduces a very nasty little piece of interventionist legislation which perverse effects remain to be seen in the overall picture.

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