This Christmas has been the seventh that we have experienced since moving to Spain permanently and it has been as oddly unsatisfactory as the others. We cannot quite ‘place our finger’ on why? It may be because our children are older and that therefore Christmas has lost its ‘magic’ – or it could have a lot to do with Spain [...]
It is always reassuring for a writer when first hand experience meets gut instinct and ‘rumour’. This was recently the case when I became involved in the sale negotiations for a hotel in Spain together with an adjoining Spanish villa. Both these properties ‘belonged’ to the same owner who has sadly gone bankrupt – so the properties were the subject [...]
One of the conundrums facing the Spanish property market is when Spanish property will again become financially appealing to British buyers – given the collapse of Sterling against the Euro which has affected both potential buyers and existing owners of Spanish property. Obviously, the current strength of the Euro against Sterling has had dramatic consequences for anyone living in Spain [...]