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• New framework housing law will kill Portugal’s mortgage market

  A chorus of opposition is growing from the property and banking sector in Portugal over the government’s proposed Framework Housing Law. Currently being debated in the Portuguese parliament, the new housing law, if passed in its current form, could impose fixed limits on interest charg...Read More

  15-May-2019

• ​Environmental stickers mandatory in Madrid

  The city of Madrid has activated new traffic restrictions aimed at reducing the current high levels of air pollution in the Spanish capital. Hence from last 24th April, all vehicles with no environmental sticker are not allowed to circulate within the perimeter of the M-30 ring road or on the ...Read More

  13-May-2019

• 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