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• Major alert as Lisbon and Faro airports ‘run out of fuel’

  Easter flight misery looks like hitting early this year with the statement by ANA airports authority this morning that its Lisbon and Faro complexes have run out of fuel. On just day two of the strike by truck drivers tasked with transporting ‘dangerous materials’, the country&rs...Read More

  17-Apr-2019

• Easter opening hours

  Our Easter opening hours are as follows:- 18 April:- Our offices in Almancil, Gibraltar and Tavira will close at 1pm. Our offices in Quesada will be open as usual. Our offices in Albox, Estepona, Fuengirola, Mallorca, Mazarrón, Mojácar, Orihuela Costa and Ten...Read More

  16-Apr-2019

• Preparing for Easter

  In order to ensure that drivers maintain safe speeds, there will be 724 speed control points, 62 radars, 557 mobile radars on the roads of Spain to ensure the safest movement of traffic for the Easter period. For more information, please click here http://n332.es/2019/04/12/preparing-for-easter-...Read More

  15-Apr-2019

• Nearly two hundred black spots reported on Spain’s roads

  A total of 195 black spots have been reported on Spanish roads so far this year, up from 190 in 2018 according to new figures. The European Automobile Association’s (AEA) annual report showed risks on roads increased by two per cent over the past five years. Valladolid Province&rsq...Read More

  08-Apr-2019

• A third of Spain is forest

  Spain is ranked 76th in the world by forest area with 36.94 per cent of the country covered by forests. And according to the World Bank data, Spain’s forest area has grown 33 per cent since 1990 rising from 27.65 per cent in 1990 to 36.9 per cent in 2016. Suriname is the country wi...Read More

  01-Apr-2019

• Madrid adopts rules that will shut down over 10,000 holiday apartments

  The Madrid city council has approved a special plan regulating holiday rentals that will foreseeably shut down over 10,000 apartments currently used for short-term tourist stays. The new regulations stipulate, among other things, that apartments used as holiday rentals inside residential bui...Read More

  28-Mar-2019

• Property sales in Portugal ‘have never been at this level’

  Statistics institute INE has released figures showing house sales in Portugal reached ‘a new maximum’ in 2018 “even with prices continuing to rise’. Exactly 178,691 transactions took place, representing the highest number since ‘records (of this type) began’ i...Read More

  26-Mar-2019

• Update - No Deal Brexit – Driving in Spain

  The United Kingdom Government and the Government of Gibraltar have this morning sought further clarification from the Government of the Kingdom of Spain in respect of the continued use of existing driving licences by UK and Gibraltar motorists. This follows a degree of ambiguity in the subst...Read More

  20-Mar-2019

• Buyer-seller expectation gap widens to 22 per cent in Portugal

  The average price of property rocketed by 15.4 per cent in the space of a year in Portugal. But while real estate continues to result in relatively decent profits for sellers, new data also indicates that their expectations of the property’s worth and its actual selling price have widened ...Read More

  15-Mar-2019

• Validity of the UK driving licences in Spain after Brexit

  Here is the section from the Spanish Royal Decree that covers UK Driving Licences, translated: Within section 4, the purpose of Article 22 is to find an adequate alternative for citizens residing in Spain and holders of a British driving licence, which is currently valid for driving in our ...Read More

  08-Mar-2019