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Britons are enjoying a buying bonanza in Spain
Despite Cassandra type predictions about the continuing demise of the Spanish property market, it appears that foreign investment in the country is growing steadily with Britons leading the way,...
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Horns lock over holiday rentals in the Baleares
As debates go it had its fare share of fury, comedy, anguish and phlegm. Of course only one topic – the nitty gritty issue of holiday rentals – was capable of raising the temperature so dramatically on...
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Why the Balearic property market is booming
Around six years ago when the Spanish property bubble finally burst and the economy took a nose dive there was wholesale doom and gloom in the country. Here in the Baleares estate agents braced...
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Who says there’s a mass exodus of British expats from Spain?
If there’s any truth in newly released figures from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) thousands of British expats are packing their bags and heading home to the UK. Are British expats really...
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Pouring oil on troubled waters in Ibiza
Although famed as the party isle of the Baleares, there’s little cheer doing the rounds in Ibiza currently. In fact more than 50 organisations on the island including town halls, government and tourism...
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Why so many Majorcans are going back to black
In Porreres, a small town in Es Pla, the central agricultural area of the island, I got talking with a Majorcan chum about the state of the economy and the old chestnut of winter tourism – or rather...
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As an expat it’s never too late to learn
Yesterday I made a call to the surgery of a Palma ear specialist because all of a sudden and quite inexplicably my ears became blocked. Unlike in the UK, it’s quite normal to call straight through to...
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The end of Magaluf as we know it?
Well stone the crows. After weeks of indignant, self righteous ‘disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’ type features in the English popular press about the horrors of infamous bad boy resort Magaluf, action has...
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Fire and ice in Majorca
Sometimes expats complain about the sheer number of tourists descending on Majorca at this time of year particularly in picturesque areas of the island such as Soller, my adopted mountain town where a...
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Many tourists now seek a home from home experience in Spain
At a dinner in London last week eight of my ten fellow guests revealed that they had booked holidays in Spain and France this summer, all of them renting private homes. The odd ones out were two...
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