Spanish crackdown ‘exaggerated’
The scale of
With so many headlines about property companies failing, rumours of price collapses and the bulldozing of illegally-built villas,
They, of course, are British investors. Figures from Kyero.com, the Spanish property portal, have shown that long-term letting has emerged as one way for investors to be able to acquire a property to rent out without actually needing to buy something outright, homesworldwide.com reports.
The last year has seen the number of enquiries about such arrangements treble in number, perhaps suggesting that for many landlords it has been judged the wise way to approach the overseas property market. As the website noted, it offers the chance to assess the market before committing to any purchases, while long-term letters can evict tenants more easily under new laws.
No one immune
One might even add that if a property turns out to be among those deemed illegal and subject to a crackdown, there will not be the loss experienced by those who have bought such properties only to see their assets turned to rubble before their eyes.
Of course, the demolition of illegal properties has received plenty of attention, not least this week when it was shown nobody is too famous to be affected. Actor Antonio Banderas was told by a
Yet it has been emphasised recently that the scale of the problem is exaggerated. Mark Stucklin, editor of buyers' advice website Spanishpropertyinsight.com, said the crackdown was mainly confined to Andalucia and
Moreover, such considerations are not putting off the tourists, a major source of buy-to-let income. New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that
Healthy market
The statistics reveal that in 2006, overall overseas travel was up 4.7 per cent to 69.5 million trips, of which
Such trends indicate that, for all the negative comment of late, tourism in