If you are thinking of buying or renting a house, villa, apartment, or any other real estate property at the Costa Brava, in Catalonia, Spain, here is a directory of helpful information
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Posted by Landlord June 16, 2008
However, Corredor reiterated it was a good time for first-time Spanish house buyers to enter the market as large property developers are likely to offer price discounts given the high level of new unsold homes.
» Lees Verder: Spain’s housing minister: real estate construction in severe slowdown
Tags: spain, housing, first-time buyers, real estate, house, buying, mortgage, construction, spanish
Posted by admin May 07, 2008
Enforcing a much-neglected 1988 law, the Socialist government is getting tough about what constitutes coastal public domain - the strip of land stretching back from the water’s edge - and telling thousands of house and apartment owners their properties do not really belong to them.
» Lees Verder: Is your seaside home in Spain yours… or does it suddenly belong to the Spanish government?
Tags: Spain, property, housing, housing market, coastal, government, cleanup, corruption, public domain
Posted by admin May 07, 2008
The unforeseen rapidity with which the Spanish housing market is falling seems to indicate that it may well bottom out earlier than the most pessimistic forecasts say it will.
» Lees Verder: Spain: Housing prices in freefall
Tags: Spain, property, housing, housing market
Posted by admin May 07, 2008
Both buyers and sellers appear to be taking a deep breath, in anticipation of more bad news to come about dropping valuations and tightening credit.
» Lees Verder: Spanish property market “totally stopped”
Tags: Spain, property, housing, housing market
Posted by admin March 29, 2008
Builders throughout Spain are going out of business because real estate developers – whose sales have slumped – cannot afford to pay them.
» Lees Verder: Credit crisis rocks housing boom in Spain
Tags: Spain, property, housing, housing market, credit crisis, builders, real estate
Posted by admin March 29, 2008
Home sales in Spain fell 27 percent in January compared to a year ago, the government reported Wednesday, releasing more bad news from the country’s once-booming real estate sector.
» Lees Verder: Home sales plummet in Spain
Tags: home sales, Spain, housing market, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, mortgage, real estate
Posted by admin March 15, 2008
Rising interest rates and the international credit crisis have hit Spain’s loan-fueled housing market.
» Lees Verder: Spain sees 14 percent drop in property sales in 2007
Tags: Spain, property, housing, housing market