Spanish Mortgage interest rates for buyers of property in Spain are forecast to rise during 2006 but, given the high demand from Spaniards desperate to get on the property ladder and northern European second home buyers, the “slowdown is not expected to be dramatic”. That’s the view of the Spanish Mortgage Association (AHE) in a report that reveals Spanish buyers have racked-up a record EUR 700

Property investors in Spain could be hit with some large tax bills as the country readies its new laws to crack down on property tax dodgers. The legislation, which has been created by the Spanish authorities following heavy pressure from the European Union, looks set to close the loophole that has dogged the country's property sector for years and had allowed people to buy property cheaply.

It has been revealed that 44 per cent of Britons expect property investment to provide the best return for retirement. Published in the same week that Lord Turner made proposals for the state pension age to rise to 67 and possibly to 69 by 2050, the research conducted by Instant Access Properties (IAP) has indicated that Britons have little faith in the pensions system and that property

New rules have been unveiled in the south of Spain designed to eliminate the problem of developers to abuse the system and take large amounts of land for themselves. A new law being debated in Valencia could bring an end to the so-called 'land grab law', which has been abused by Spanish developers for many years, to the detriment of many property investors forced to pay the prices demanded by the

Some 53,000 overseas property investors, mostly European, have bought houses in Turkey this year while some £1.15bn has been invested in real estate projects by overseas property investors. The figures came from Haluk Sur, chairman of Turkey’s Association of Real Estate Investment Companies, GYODER, when on a trade mission to the Middle East. Expectations of EU membership, and local demand

Despite a perceived slowing down of the domestic property market in Britain, recent statistics reveal that over 100,000 British people plan to buy a property abroad in the next six months and by 2008 the numbers of Brits who own homes overseas is expected to rise from 1.38 million to 3.12 million. Of those Britons seeking a new home in the sun a significant proportion of them are specifically

Despite numerous surveys and reports suggesting that eastern Europe is the hot destination for the buy to let market, many Spanish property developers have not been listening – until now. The threat from countries such as Bulgaria and the Czech Republic had been dismissed for a long time by property developers in Spain, especially while the property price boom continued and prices remained high.

A new trend is emerging in Europe, with an increasing number of property purchasers keen to buy second homes on golf courses. Many people are increasingly attracted to the idea of spending money on a second home in a foreign country that is located on a golf course, but they're not necessarily interested in playing the sport. According to some investors, the main reason for purchasing a property

This year is expected to be the most successful yet for real estate sales on the Bulgarian property market. For the first nine months of 2005 208 000 real estate deals were concluded. The number is 196 000 for the entire of 2004. Most real estate agencies experience increased interest toward their offers at the end of the year. Thus, sales are expected to intensify further. If the same transaction