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Spain’s housing crisis: Pedro Sanchez promises landlords 100% tax break if they freeze rents and slams seasonal lets as ‘speculation and greed’

Spain’s housing crisis: Pedro Sanchez promises landlords 100% tax break if they freeze rents and slams seasonal lets as ‘speculation and greed’

PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced ‘urgent and decisive’ measures to address Spain’s deepening housing shortage. Landlords that extend long-term leases without increasing the rents in the future will be given a tax exemption of 100% on rental income. Sanchez spoke Monday at the launch of the Campamento housing project, which will build 10,700 new homes on an ex-military site …

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Torremolinos – sports city – Number one on Costa del Sol for sports tourism

Torremolinos – sports city – Number one on Costa del Sol for sports tourism

Torremolinos has the best sports facilities on the coast. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Torremolinos Torremolinos is the top destination for sport tourism in the Costa del Sol. It has broken new records and shown explosive growth of athletic visitors attracted by the top-notch facilities and the region’s mild climate in comparison to most of Europe. The year before last, town The …

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Former Costa Blanca mayor and three ex-councillors convicted of ‘rigging’ refuse contract

Angel Fenoll

Former Orihuela mayor Monica Lorente has been sentenced to a four-month prison term, and is disqualified from holding any public office for a period of 20 months, over the awarding of an illegal refuse contract in 2007. Lorente served as mayor of the municipality from 2007 to 2011. She won’t go to jail because this was her first offense with …

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