Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate rose to 2.9% in January, from 2.8% in the period through December, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday.
A Spanish police chief inspector has sounded the alarm about Gibraltar passengers dodging security checks when travelling from Malaga Airport.
Spanish package holidays were all the rage and TV shows like A Place in the Sun fuelled the dream of owning a slice of its sun-drenched southern coast.
Marc Murtra’s emergence as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s corporate fixer has drawn accusations of crony capitalism
Spain has approved an extension of the powers that allow the government to block foreign investors from taking strategic companies over.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would propose to ban purchasers from outside the European Union from buying properties, as the government seeks to curb rising housing prices, which have become an increasing source of friction.
Pedro Sanchez said the EU should put an end to anonymity of users in social-media platforms and hold their CEOs personally accountable if they fail to comply with regulations.
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Spain to tax non-EU property buyers
Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.
Spain will end its “golden visa ” programme this spring in a bid to address the country’s growing housing crisis. So-called “golden visas” grant residency rights to foreign citizens through investments in real estate.
A new treaty, negotiated between Gibraltar, Spain, the UK and the EU, has so far taken nearly five years and, according to Gibraltar’s chief minister, is in its final stages. Like the Windsor ...
Non-residents from outside the EU bought some 23,000 houses and flats in Spain in 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.
As Spain continues dealing with a nationwide housing crisis, its government has proposed an unconventional fix to the problem — and one that will not please foreigners. Spain has announced plans to implement a 100% tax on homes purchased by non-European Union residents,