Port Aventura’s residential development put on ice

The Port Aventura theme park on the Costa Dorada, Tarragona province, is having a difficult year. Visitor numbers in the first 6 months of the year were down 9% compared to the same period last year, with British visitors leading the exodus, down 20%. That doesn’t sound good, but it’s not tourism but the property [...]

Shrewd Shrews prove the value of warm weather training at Desert Springs

Publicity Shrewsbury Town Football Club were so pleased with the results of pre-season warm-weather training for their players at Desert Springs Resort in Spain that they have returned for the second year running – and hope to go back next year as well.

Spanish property market down 26pc in June

Spanish property sales, not including social housing, were down 26% in June compared to the same month last year, according to the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Spanish property price index down 9.2pc in July

Spanish property prices fell by 9.2% over 12 months to the end of July, according to the latest Spanish property price index published by Tinsa, one of Spain’s leading appraisal companies.

Falling second home prices in the Pyrenees and the Costa Dorada

Under the title ‘Summer Crisis’ an article today in the Heraldo de Aragon, a regional daily in Aragon, discusses the market for second homes in the Pyrenees and the Costa Dorada, both popular holiday home destinations with Spaniards living in Aragon, and in particular its capital Zaragoza. Though delightful in places (but awful in many, [...]

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