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Following months of dispute between budget airline Ryanair and the Catalonian government, which saw most routes from Girona stopped over the winter, agreement between the two sides has finally been reached. Ryanair announced 19 new routes from Girona from the end of March 2012, increasing the total to 59. They promise to bring around 3 [...]
Anyone looking for a Portuguese home near a beach will welcome a new promotion highlighting every beach along the Algarve. The on-line promotion, organised by the Algarve Tourist Board, is called The 1001 Beaches of the Algarve and began on 2nd January. Every day the tourist board is adding a detailed blog post, complete with [...]
Anyone buying property in Greece and planning on renting it out to holidaymakers would do well to acquaint themselves with the Greek law concerning the EOT or 'Elliniko Organismo Tourismo' licence, especially given the cash-strapped Greek authorities are clamping down heavily on rented properties that are not licensed. EOT licenses provide a valuable income stream, [...]
Anyone considering a visit to Cyprus in coming weeks, whether for a holiday or to look at property, should bear in mind the Cyprus Air Traffic Controllers' Union, PASEEK, has plans to strike before the end of January. PASEEK, is protesting its members inclusion in the austerity measures which the Cyprus government has devised [...]
Property prices in the USA are continueing to fall, as there has been a rise in the number of distressed sales. The average cost of a home in America reduced by 1.4% month-on-month in November, new reports from the Home Price Index show. This included the sale of distressed homes. A chief economist for CoreLogic, [...]
Istanbul in Turkey has been named as a potential property hot spot in 2012 in a new City Investment Guide. In the guide, 2012 is predicted as being a great year to buy property in Europe for knock-down prices. That said, not every country in Europe is suffering from the global crises – and Turkey [...]
Provisional government statistics released in January showed that the number of foreign visitors to Spain rose for the second year in a row during 2011, helped by a surge in tourists from the UK, its largest market. Spain welcomed 56.9 million foreign tourists last year, an 8.1% increase over 2010, Tourism Minister Jose Manuel Soria [...]
More and more experts are beginning to think that Spain's property market is set for recovery following the worldwide economic crash, as it shows more and more positive signs. Taylor Wimpey España is just one development company that is predicting good things for the coming year, and they should know, as they have developed some [...]
A hot topic of conversation among expats in Portugal’s Algarve is the recent launch of toll charges on the Algarve’s only motorway. The A22, also known as the Via de Infante, stretches from Vila Real de Santo Antonio, on the Spanish border, as far west as Lagos. The road was built with the help of [...]
New arrivals in NZ have been warned that the cost of living there might not be as cheap as first expected and they should do as much research into the day-to-day expenses, such as shopping, as they do into larger things, such as salaries and house prices. “Food prices really are astronomical here,” said Pattie [...]