Property/House & Garden news & information for Spain

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.

HOUSING market data so far for 2016 has been optimistic across the board from every source, pointing at a significant rise in sales and an increase – albeit tentative – in home values.

A SWIMMING pool can double the value of your property on the open market, according to calculations by estate agency analysts - a typical home in Spain with a pool can cost around €407,704, compared with €193,525...

NEW mortgages taken out to buy property in Spain have reached a record year-on-year high, rising by 10% since April and marking two years of growth – and at the same time, a new EU directive implemented means paying...

Spanish property prices registered another quarter of increasing prices during the three months from April to June with growth of 0.8% year-on-year. The increase is below the 1.4% recorded for the first quarter but...

GALICIA plans to issue a 'house colour guide' with charts showing which ones are not allowed 'to guard against ugliness'.

Tinsa has released its results for the month of May and prices have risen once again continuing the positive streak which began in January this year. The increase for May stood at 1.3% year-on-year, the second highest...

As an architect, I read a certain amount of statistics and obtain most of them from Eurostat.

The year-on-year increase of 2.4% which was recorded for the first quarter of 2016 by Spain’s Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento) means that prices have now put together a run of 4 quarters on the...