Property/House & Garden news & information for Spain

HALF of all Spaniards seeking to buy property search for their ideal home on their mobiles, according to a survey by Fotocasa.

PROPERTY investment in Spain reached a record high last year, totalling €10.2 billion - a figure that has only ever been beaten in 2007 when home prices were at their most inflated and before the end of the housing...

INHERITANCE tax on homes in the Balearic Islands has been slashed by between 25% and 75%, a move which is likely to encourage buyers who know they will not leave their loved ones with a huge bill to pay when they pass...

TRAVELLING for business to and from Spain is expected to rise significantly in 2015 – and property promoters have reported a growing interest in regular 'movers and shakers' buying second homes abroad as a...

HOME prices in Spain are at their highest in parts of Catalunya, Galicia and Mallorca and at their lowest in Almería and Zaragoza, recent sale figures show.

BRITISH homebuyers in Spain outstripped Spaniards in 2014, and the trend looks set to continue this year, according to new development promoters.

SPAIN'S property price freefall is over and home values are likely to start going up, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMFI).

A VILLAGE in the north-western region of Galicia is seeking tenants for €100 a month to 'repopulate' it, since nearly three-quarters of the population has left.

HEATING uses up the most electricity in the average Spanish home, followed by refrigerators – which consume more energy than the washing machine and TV put together, says a recent study.

CABO Formentor in Mallorca and the Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona are Spain’s two most expensive places to buy a house, and among the top 15 most pricey in Europe, according to research by a German estate agency.

Jordi Giro got more than he bargained for when he inspected for the first time a flat in Roses (Girona) he bought at auction last week. For on the sofa in the living room of the property he found the mummified corpse of...

Not in the obvious places, that’s for sure. Us expats are cropping up in the most unlikely of locations…