Monthly Archives: May 2008

Is your seaside home in Spain yours… or does it suddenly belong to the Spanish government?

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. »

Spain: Housing prices in freefall

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. »

Spanish property market “totally stopped”

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. »