Buying a Luxury Flat in Madrid: Guide for Foreign Buyers (2026)

If you’re looking to buy luxury real estate in Madrid, this is a guide for you. Over the past several years, Madrid has quietly become one of the

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Spain’s Housing Crisis, the blame game, and possible solutions

Spain is having a housing crisis. Even the New York Times is talking about it. Rent prices in urban areas just keep going up, and people are looking

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Barcelona Bans AirBnb – the end of tourist rentals?

Big news here in Barcelona: Our new mayor, Jaume Collboni, announced yesterday that he wants to ban tourist apartments. The current licenses, he says, will expire in 2028

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Buying a flat in Spain – a sort-of guide for expats and others

Morena and I recently became homeowners. How? you ask. Well, Barcelona’s not cheap, but I guess we did it the normal way: by paying a huge down payment

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Renting a flat in Barcelona – an adventure in Spain’s frozen north

Well, here we are. As you know (or as you don’t) Morena and I came to Barcelona a few days ago. We were staying in an AirBnb for

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6 steps to finding the perfect piso in Madrid

by Natalia Diaz I was sitting in a salón with a woman who reeked of Shalimar and naphthalene balls. She could have been the 80-year old middle sister

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