February 2020

This is undoubtedly the stress-free option (so long as money isn’t short). Buy on a resort and you won’t have to worry about cleaning the communal pool, watering the garden, maintaining the roads or finding rental guests. Depending on the resort you choose, of course, you are likely to be living among a wide range of foreign owners as well as Spanish. There will …

50 years ago, the vast majority of Spaniards lived in villages and small towns. From the 1970s to the 1990s more than 10 million moved provinces. Many of the younger people moved to the coasts looking for better paid work in the tourist trade while millions more moved to the cities. Since then, however, in the south and east especially, expats from Britain, northern …