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HOME sales and purchases went up by 16% in August based upon the previous year's figures, following four months of consecutive decline, according to Spain's National Institute of Statistics (INE).
STATE-OWNED financial entity Bankia has signed up twice as many mortgages for buying homes this year than it did in the whole of 2016 – a total of €1.18 billion in property loans between January and August inclusive.
INHERITANCE tax for estates of less than €1 million has been scrapped in Andalucía where the beneficiary is a spouse, parent or child.
HOME sales and purchases leapt 16.8% in July compared with the same month in 2016, with a total of 38,841 properties shifting hands,
THE two most expensive areas in Spain to buy a property have been revealed in recently-published research – and, surprisingly, neither are in the top five wealthiest towns in the country.
HELP is finally at hand to get young adults onto the housing ladder – grants of up to €10,800 will be available to anyone up to the age of 35 inclusive to use as a deposit and fees.
RENTAL properties have been described as 'the new golden egg' with prices rising between 10% and 20% in major cities such as Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Madrid, Barcelona and San Sebastián in the last year.
NEW mortgages signed for went up by nearly 17% in January this year – a healthy sign of the housing market beginning to recover.
A MORATORIUM on home repossessions for 'vulnerable' householders will continue until the year 2020, and new measures have been included in the Banking Code of Good Practice to protect the consumer.
A GLOBAL award known as 'the Nobel Prize for Architects' has gone to a trio in Catalunya, only the second time it has landed in Spain and the first time in history that three have been given out at once.
SPAIN'S tallest-ever wooden building is now under construction in Barcelona, and will have seven storeys and 28 flats when it is finished.
SPANISH-BASED homeowners with mortgages saved a significant amount of money in 2016 thanks to the Eurozone interest rate being negative for 11 consecutive months.