El Pais

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Spanish mortgage lenders offering alternatives to repossession

Some mortgage lenders in Spain are starting to offer clients struggling to pay the mortgage an alternative to repossessi...
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G14 Concede Falling Spanish Property Prices

Last year was the worst year ever on record for the Spanish property sector, and this year doesn’t look like it’s going ...
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Spanish Banks Pile on the Misery

A large number of Britons buying off-plan homes from bankrupt Spanish developers say they are tens or even hundreds of t...
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Fortuna Estates: Busted by Spanish Police for Land Fraud

The Spanish land investment scam run for years by Fortuna Estates has finally been busted, with the Spanish fraud squad ...
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Rise in new-build properties looking for buyers in Spain

A high number of new-build homes are without buyers in Spain, it has been suggested. According to Spanish daily newspape...
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Spanish Glut of New Builds Rises by 20%

The inventory of newly built Spanish homes languishing on the market in search of a buyer rose by 20% in the first 6 mon...
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Barcelona property prices will fall 10% this year, and 20% in real terms over 2 years say estate agents

Barcelona’s property market has collapsed, and Barcelona’s estate agents’ association (API) forecasts that prices for re...
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Bank Guarantee Woe for Buyers

Some Spanish banks and insurance companies are breaching consumer protection laws by stalling, or refusing to honour gua...
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Biggest Spanish agents close half their offices in 6 months

In just 6 months, the 10 largest estate agents in Spain have closed more than half their offices, reports the Spanish d...
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More buyers backing out and losing their deposits

The number of buyers backing out of purchases on new developments and losing their deposits in the process is creating a...
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Morgan Stanley issues alert on Spanish banks

Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, has issued a major alert on the health of Spanish banks, warning that a replay of t...
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Spain Stops Reassurances as Crisis Deepens

Spain's finance minister Pedro Solbes has stunned the markets with an admission that his country faces the worst economi...
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The speculation behind Spain’s property boom

A recent article in the Spanish daily ‘El Pais’ illustrates the excesses of Spain’s recent property boom. Using the exa...
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Illegal Building Problems in La Axarquia

An article over the weekend in the Spanish daily EL Pais, entitled ‘La Axarquia, a building and whitewash catastrophe’, ...
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