SPANISH PROPERTY INTELLIGENCE

Everything you need to know about buying, owning, and selling property in Spain.

Welcome to Spanish Property Insight

A property information web site run by Mark Stucklin, author of the Spanish Property Doctor column in the Sunday Times.

Why Spanish Property Insight?

Spanish Property Insight is a property information web site designed to help you understand the issues you face when buying, owning, or selling property in Spain. The information here is carefully researched, and clearly explained to help you take informed decisions, and avoid expensive mistakes. With nothing to sell this site is totally independent and free of any sales-driven bias, so you can trust us to tell it like it is. Its the only source for real insight into everything to do with Spanish property.

Spanish Property Information is Power

• Understand the costs and risks of buying and selling real estate in Spain.
• Learn all about the issues that might affect you as a buyer, owner, or seller of property in Spain.
• Benefit from free useful tools such as checklists and financial models.
• Find out how to solve your Spanish property headaches
• Make sense of the Spanish property market before you buy or sell.
• Benefit from an independent, unbiased source of expertise to help inform your decisions.
• Keep abreast of important changes in taxes and regulations affecting property owners in Spain (and receive notification of important deadlines).
• Learn about property options in different parts of Spain.
• Share your knowledge in the forum, and learn from others, including legal experts.
  
• Read all about Spanish property investment strategies and issues.
• Separate fact from fiction in a sector plagued by greedy sales organisations that don't tell you the truth.

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Buying Properties in Spain is not without its risks

Every year a good number of people see their dreams turn sour as they rush into buying Spanish properties without reliable information, placing their trust in the wrong people.

For most of us, buying a property in Spain is one of the biggest investments we will ever make. The bigger the investment, the bigger the risk, because there is so much money at stake. So doesn't it make sense to research the Spanish property market before you buy property in Spain? Doing so helps you avoid the common pitfalls, and avoid overpaying. You can use this web site to arm yourself with insight before you start spending your hard-earned cash with people who don't necessarily have your best interests at heart.

Spanish Property Prices

The following graph shows how average national Spanish property prices have evolved since 2000. The red line gives the nominal change, the blue line the real change (after adjusting for inflation), and the yellow line gives the inflation rate over the period. As you can see, the property price inflation trend is downward, whilst general inflation is up. I forecast that, over the next couple of years, average Spanish property price growth will be negative in both nominal and real terms.

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