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The booming Spanish property market continues to grow after reaching a record high in the number of sales last year. The National Statistics Institute (INE) released figures showing that more than 700 000 homes were sold for the first since 2007 when the peak sales of 775 300 homes occurred. In total, 714,237 property transactions took place last year – …

SPAIN’S conservative opposition have gone on the offensive, accusing prime minister Pedro Sanchez of ‘handing over the keys of the housing market to squatters’ amid an ongoing row over anti-squatting legislation. Alicia Garcia, spokesperson for the Partido Popular (PP) in the senate, where the party holds a majority, said squatting – the unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building – had …