Costa's 'costalot' as Spanish tourism hit by crisis

As widely forecast, the current economic crisis and the fall in the value of the Pound Sterling against the Euro has had a severe impact on one of Spain’s largest industries , tourism. The latest figures released by the country’s National Statistics Institute even call...

Valencian Government 'sinks' yet more Expat lives

In a move which has provoked outrage amongst the British Expatriate yachting and boating community, the Government of Valencia has hit out at foreign boat owners who are moored in its Costa Blanca marinas and...

‘Expats’ resident on Spain’s Costa’s receive chilling warnings

Beleaguered British Expatriates resident along Spain’s Mediterranean Costa’s are digesting a series of thinly veiled threats and warnings recently issued by a variety of sources. Facing an increasingly bleak future, exasperated by the coldest winter in some forty years...

Further gloom for ex-pats in Spain

Falling property prices, weakening pound v. euro, inflation, rising crime rates, increasing taxes and now ..... no television ! Thousands of residents have once again been deprived of their television viewing,...

News from the Spanish Costas

Problems with the new website:   1. Will not take pre prepared cut and past work 2. Very difficult to find where to enter a story - buttons halp covered over by 'Author' field 3. Unable to cut and paste this story - I'm off somewhere else !

“Catastrazo” coming on Spain's Costa Blanca

In light of falling income from ex-pat property owners in the Costa Blanca, Spain, taxes and fees on new property projects have failed to be realised, so more and more municipalities are asking the Catastro (the office in the Ministry of Finance regulating the fiscal values...

Orihuela Costa, Costa Blanca - 'Citizens of Europe' report predicts more gloom

I write as a member of an organisation called 'Citizens of Europe' and enclose underneath relevant parts of our newsletter. More gloom for property owners here on the Costa Blanca, I'm afraid to say !  1. In a new section of the National Law on Land (Ley del Suelo)...

Jellyfish plague hits holidaymakers

"A plague of jellyfish is threatening to ruin holidays for British tourists in Spain, Sicily and North Africa. Some of Spain's most popular holiday destinations are affected including the Costa del Sol, Costa...

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