Living in Spain

All homes in Spain must have home insurance. Home insurance is important to consider if you are buying a property in Spain.

Moving to a new country can be exciting and challenging, and unsurprisingly, Spain is consistently among the top ranked countries in Europe for expats.

The property market in Spain is attracting more and more foreign buyers, even despite the COVID-19 health emergency across Europe and the world.

Renovating a luxury home in Spain is an investment that pays off.

In these challenging financial times, a lifetime loan (LTL) is a life jacket that offers a financial opportunity that not many borrowers are aware of. It is a type of loan available only to resident senior citizens.

Spain is one of the countries preferred by foreigners both for holidays and for buying property.

The British insurance company CIA Landlord has published a report where it analyses the best cities for teleworking for the British, and Spain's capital, Madrid, leads the ranking.

Spain continues to be a favourite destination for expats and foreigners, with an increasing number choosing to buy all over Spain, the most popular destinations for foreigners still being the Spanish “costas” and islands.

The coronavirus pandemic that is affecting countries across the world has caused the paralysis of many economies, with the tourism and hotel sectors among the most affected.

The expat community in Spain is made up of 5.6 million foreign residents, according to the latest figures from the Spanish government.

This year, summer is shaping to have more unknowns than ever as the conditions for the opening of the swimming pools or the beaches change depending on the COVID-19 situation in Spain.

With Spain’s four-phase plan to lift the strict coronavirus lockdown well underway, the return to a "new normal" is getting closer with some regions of the country ready to find out what this will look like as soon as the end of June.

The Spanish Government has recently approved a guaranteed minimum income scheme (“ingreso mínimo vital”) set to help 850,000 of Spain’s most vulnerable families amounting to around 4.89% of the population.

Last weekend, Spain’s Official State Gazette (BOE) published a set of new measures that are part of a gradual recovery plan to get the country out of the strict lockdown that was introduced in March in a bid to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Madrid, along with the rest of Spain, has been in coronavirus lockdown at home for over a month.

Last Saturday, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced in a new hearing the extension of the state of alarm due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country. This extension has now been passed in parliament and will come into force on 26th April 2020.

The global crisis of the coronavirus pandemic has meant that thousands of employees are working remotely from their homes in Spain.

The spread of the coronavirus in Spain has led to the largest rise in unemployment in history and the largest drop in social security enrolment.

In 2020 the advantages of the Internet are endless and at the moment, we can take advantage more than ever due to the coronavirus outbreak which has left Spain housebound: you can comfortably buy food, clothes or gadgets without having to leave your home.

The Spanish government has approved an aid package of measures focusing on helping struggling rental tenants in the country. According to calculations made by the government, some 500,000 tenants could be affected by the economic consequences of the coronavirus outbreak.

Wedding bells are ringing and you’re getting married – congratulations!

If you had planned to move to Spain in 2020, you understandably might be having some second thoughts due to the current COVID-19 outbreak in Europe and across the world.

You've moved to Spain and found yourself a nice flat but there's just one problem...noisy neighbours, but not the type of noisy neighbours you might be expecting.

The Spanish government is set to extend the current state of alarm for at least another 15 days.

Coronavirus cases in Spain continue to rise and with no immediate end in sight of the pandemic or lockdown, the government has updated decree law detailing the measures of the state of alarm ("estado de alarma") that was implemented in Spain last Saturday.