HOMEBUYERS from abroad tend to head for coastal areas, large towns and cities, and tourism hotspots, depending upon their criteria - work, retirement, holidays, or eventually all three at different points in time. 

IT'S NOT all sunning yourself by the sea during your sixth-form summer holidays when you're going to be Queen – sometimes you have to spend your down-time going to work. And in full public view, too, knowing your every move will end up in the newsp...

IF YOU'RE reading this from the USA, you might have just finished watched the fireworks at the end of one of the nation's biggest public holidays.

A HIGH-SPEED, low-cost train line now operating in Spain has put tickets on sale for the Madrid-Valencia route for just €9 each way.

NATIONAL health authorities in Spain have once again recommended wearing a mask in indoor areas, but have not made this compulsory as yet.

ONCE you're settled in your seat, belted in and counting the minutes until that moment you can pop your tray down, go to the loo and switch the reading light on – with one eye always on the qui vive for the food trolley – you probably only notice...

INTERNATIONAL celebrities from Spain or with Spanish relatives are not exactly rare, but are few enough in number that their names are well known – if a quiz show on a non-Spanish TV channel asked contestants to list them, chances are almost everyo...

JUST when you thought you knew what to expect from 'an Almodóvar film', the cult director from Castilla-La Mancha serves up something completely off the menu – and it's getting to the stage where there are few cinema genres left he hasn't dabbled ...

A BATTERY of measures to soften the blow of price-led inflation has been announced following Spain's latest Council of Ministers, at a cost of around €9.1 billion.

SECURITY in Madrid is at its tightest ever this coming week as Spain's capital gets ready to host the latest NATO Summit – in fact, residents and commuters have been urged to work from home if their jobs allow for it.

THE LONGEST day north of the tropics has now passed, and summer is officially here, exams are over, schools and colleges in Spain have broken up for the next three months, and fiesta season is ready to kick off.

EMPLOYEES at the Ford factory in the province of Valencia are celebrating as though all their birthdays and Christmases have come at once – the global motor company has chosen the plant to produce all its electrically-powered vehicles in Europe.

A FRESH reduction in value-added tax (IVA) on electricity has been announced in a bid to reduce costs to Spanish households, taking effect from Saturday this week (June 25).

A SPANISH shipwreck which inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film has been found off the coast of the USA – a whole 329 years after it sank without trace, believed destroyed by fire in the ocean wilderness thousands of kilometres from civilisa...

HOME sales and purchases went up by nearly a quarter in the first four months of 2022 based upon the same period the previous year, although April was far less buoyant than March, according to the latest National Statistics Institute (INE) figures.