Shorouk Express If you’ve been at Madrid Barajas’ Terminal 4 in recent years, you may have been approached by someone asking you for money, perhaps pretending to be a traveller who has run out of money or lost their wallet. The Spanish capital’s airport has seen a steep rise in the number of homeless people…
Shorouk Express If you’ve dreamed of owning a property in Spain, you’ve probably considered various scenarios. If you’re after a new-build home, you will either be thinking about buying one that’s ready to move into or buying one off plan, which hasn’t been fully built yet. The second option gives you more flexibility as you…
Shorouk Express The average price of a pre-owned home in Spain has reached a historic high of €2,271 per square metre after a monthly increase of 1.5 percent in February, according to the latest index from property portal Idealista. This figure represents a rise of 1.2 percent in just the last three months and the…
Shorouk Express Anger and grief are still raw four months after the European country’s worst natural disaster in decades killed 232 people, including 224 in the eastern Valencia region. In a demonstration called by dozens of unions and civil society associations, protesters holding pictures of their dead loved ones chanted “Mazón resign” and marched behind…
Shorouk Express Officers arrested 17 suspected gang members in the southeastern provinces of Alicante and Murcia. Two vehicles – including one believed to have been involved in the accident – and several weapons were also seized as part of the operation, Spain’s Civil Guard police said in a statement. They began an investigation in October…
Shorouk Express 2024 was the year anti-tourism protests in Spain. Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Alicante, Granada, Cantabria, Tenerife, Mallorca, and also the small Balearic island of Ibiza. Every summer, Ibiza becomes the party spot of the world’s rich and famous, drawing in the best DJs and young revellers who don’t mind spending their savings on…
Shorouk Express As anyone who keeps track of the Spanish property market knows, getting on the housing ladder has been a struggle for many Spaniards in recent years. Nowadays many can barely afford to even find a rented place, a trend The Local has covered in detail and you can read about here, and those…
Shorouk Express There are many reasons why you might want to change your name while you’re in Spain or even soon after you move here. Maybe your name is very difficult for Spanish people to pronounce and spell correctly and you just want to make it easier. Or maybe your name means something else in…
Shorouk Express Spain is desperately trying to solve its housing crisis by introducing all kinds of measures, from rent caps and limiting non-EU non-resident foreigners from buying properties to offer incentives for landlords who reduce their rent. LISTED: Spain’s 12 new measures to combat the housing crisis One of the obvious solutions is to build…
Shorouk Express Many foreigners dream of relocating to Spain and opening a business. Language and culture shocks aside, dealing with Spanish administration and bureaucracy may actually be one of the biggest hurdles to making it a reality. On that note, you may need something known as a licencia de apertura — an opening licence — to…
