Property/House & Garden news & information for Spain

AN APARTMENT block in the province of Zaragoza is the second in Spain to win the Passivhaus Certificate, a global energy-efficiency award given to residential properties which use little or no power.

HOUSING market figures for the end of November showed an 18.1% rise in sales for that month based upon the same 30 days in 2016, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

NEW-BUILD residential property rose in value in 2017 by more than any time in the last decade, according to the Surveyors' Society, with major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona seeing prices reach pre-financial...

PRICES of pre-owned property rose by an average of 5.6% between November 2016 and the same month in 2017, according to figures released this month by estate agency analysts Idealista.

MORTGAGE loans signed up for in Spain rose by 9.2% year-on-year as at September 2017, the most recent month for which figures are available.

The signing of new mortgages for home purchases grew 9.2% year-on-year in September, a considerable slowdown compared to the growth of 29% registered in August, although this is the fifth consecutive year-on-year...

Foreigners are buying more homes in Spain than ever before, but the trend is not on the up amongst all nationalities.

A 'SMART Band' which tells people where to buy a house based upon how they feel when they visit different areas and properties has been designed by the University of Zaragoza and the Gandia campus of Valencia...

RESIDENTIAL properties under construction in Spain being abandoned at half-mast were a common sight during the worst years of the financial crisis, but more are being finished off now than ever since the housing market...

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.