No shortgage of “Real Spain” if you are interested
I’m on the fast train from Madrid to Barcelona, travelling through the heart of Spain. Miles and miles of stunning countryside bathed in Spring sunshine flash past the window as we cruise along at close to 300 kmh. The snow-capped Pyrenees are visible in the distance.
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Spanish property market in the dark
Spanish property, lost in the desert?
Where are you if you can’t see anything around you, and don’t have a map? Lost, most likely, just like the Spanish real estate market, where a lack of reliable data means we are all in the dark as to what is going on.
‘Mr. Drains’ abandons Spain for Africa
Seseña
Spanish developer Francisco Hernando, better known as ‘El Pocero’, or ‘Mr. Drains’, is abandoning all building work on his macro-urbanisation in Seseña, not far from Madrid, and heading off to build homes in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, one of the least developed, and most corrupt countries in Africa.
Nobody is buying holiday homes on the Costa Blanca anymore
Is this what you really want?
I read that holiday homes on the Costa Blanca aren’t selling so well these days, down 83% in 2 years, from 4,233 sales in 2006 to just 702 last year (sales by developers to non-resident Europeans).