Property/House & Garden news & information for Spain

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.

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.