Current residency and visas news, rules and analysis for Spain. This guide brings together 14 source-linked MedRealty stories.
The regional government is preparing a new law that will allow municipalities to prohibit the purchase of apartments not for personal residence. The idea sounds noble: fighting spe…
Read →Analysis by Idealista reveals that the market for homes priced above €3 million is dominated by five locations: the Golden Triangle of Costa del Sol (Marbella, Estepona, Benahavís)…
Read →Spanish media outlets have renewed accusations that foreign investors are displacing local residents from coastal and island properties. On the Costa del Sol, in Alicante and acros…
Read →Spain's Constitutional Court has agreed to hear a complaint from more than 50 opposition deputies against Catalonia's housing and planning law of 11/2025. The legislation extends p…
Read →In Moraira, residents are locked in legal proceedings with local authorities over plans to build a waste-sorting facility in a residential area. Residents fear noise, lorry traffic…
Read →The Vox party has proposed extending the residency requirement from five to ten years for foreign nationals seeking long-term residence permits. Under current EU rules, five years …
Read →The first official data for 2026 reveals a cooling Spanish market, with demand from overseas buyers declining at the sharpest pace. In the first quarter, foreigners purchased 26,97…
Read →France imposes additional taxes on second homes of up to 60 per cent, British county councils have doubled property taxes, and Wales could raise them by as much as 300 per cent. Sp…
Read →German purchasers acquired 1,510 properties in Spain during the first quarter of 2026, representing a 7.2 per cent decline compared with Q1 2025. By contrast, the overall foreign i…
Read →Thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid in May. Young people, teachers, professors—all unable to afford a flat. Despite economic growth, wages have failed to keep pace…
Read →Spain is growing faster than other eurozone countries—GDP is forecast at +2.1% in 2026. Yet this masks a deeper problem: property prices are rising while supply is falling. The cau…
Read →British purchases of Spanish real estate have fallen to their lowest point in years, trading nearly 40% below 2016 levels. In the first quarter of 2026, British buyers acquired jus…
Read →Portugal is paying 35 per cent more than fair value for property, according to the European Commission. Prices in Portugal have surged 73 per cent over five years. Spain has also s…
Read →Foreign purchasers completed 24,800 transactions in the first quarter of 2026, representing a 3 per cent decline compared with Q1 2025. This marks the third consecutive quarter of …
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