Nearly Zero Energy Buildings and the European Directive
Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU. The single biggest thing you can do to reduce climate change apart from stopping flying (which you won’t do anyway) is improve the energy efficiency of your building. The great thing is that energy efficient buildings are alsoContinue reading
Marbella Property Market Update May 2018
The best latest report comes from Survey Spain, a company of Chartered Surveyors in Estepona, that does building surveys and valuations. The report is the most informative and best researched that I have seen and is impartial. It is really useful for people who might be asking themselves where to buy and how values varyContinue reading
Comment and Analysis on the Spanish Property Market March / April 2017
Here we go……………a link to all the articles on the property market in Spain for the months of March and April 2017. There is a brief summary from me. You can sift through and decide what it worth reading. Hopefully this will keep you informed as well as save you time. Weak pound melts theContinue reading
Comment and Analysis on the Spanish Property Market in Spain January / February 2017
I have picked out these articles with useful comment and analysis and excluded those that contain superficial comment or hype and “creative” journalism only. You have here the headline and link and a brief summary from me and maybe a comment so you can decide whether the article is of interest. You may find itContinue reading
Why Brexit Shouldn’t Matter If You Want to Buy Property In Spain
My conclusion is that if you are buying or building a holiday home that may become a second retirement home, and you do not intend you work in Spain, and intend to return to the UK eventually say in your late 80s or 90s then you don’t have much to worry about. So what isContinue reading
Property Prices in Spain will increase steadily acording to a market analyst
This is the opinion of Profesor Jose Luis Suarez Profesor of Financial Management at the IESE. The conclusión of his market analysis are that 100,000 new homes are required every year until 2020 and after that 140,000 a year for the following 5 years. If this is right property values will increase by 40% overContinue reading
Foreigners buying the same number of properties as they were pre-recession
This article in Sur in English says “Figures for the first six months of this year show that the number of trasactions by non-residents has exceeded those in 2007 the year the real estate bubble burst”
Continue readingAndalucia Property Market Analysis
Barbara Wood has written an erudite article analyzing the current state of the residential property market in Andalucía. It is on Mark Stucklins excellent website Spanish Property Insight. There is a link to the full article at the bottom of this page. Barbara really clarifies the issues about which we property professionals in Spain allContinue reading