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Plain-English guides on buying, renting and living on the Spanish coast: NIE, taxes, mortgages, Costa Blanca neighborhoods and more.
NewsWesna GroupSpain Cadastre 2026: Who Must Refile, and Who Pays If Nobody Did
A pool, an extension or a glazed terrace means a cadastral declaration within two months. Miss it and the Catastro finds the work from aerial imagery, back-dates the valor catastral to the day after it was built, and charges the arrears to whoever owns the property when the file opens.
NewsWesna GroupSpain's Land Registry Went Digital: What Changed and What Didn't
Ley 11/2023 put the property registry on an electronic folio from May 2024 and gave notaries a stamped electronic deed from April 2025. It did not make a Spanish house purchase something you can sign by video call.
NewsWesna GroupSpain Notary Delay 2026: How Long the Wait Really Is
Fifteen working days is the realistic wait for a notary slot on the Alicante coast in August 2026, and the peak weeks reach twenty. Here is the queue area by area, what built it, and how to stop it breaking your arras deadline.
NewsWesna GroupVPO Spain 2026: Price Caps, Rules and Who Can Buy
Protection on new VPO built on reserved land never expires, and a 30-year floor applies everywhere else. Income caps sit near 4.5 times IPREM, roughly EUR 37,800 a year, and the residence test rules out non-resident buyers. Check the nota simple before you sign.
NewsWesna GroupECB Rate Cuts and Spain Property: the 2026 Lag Explained
A 25 basis point ECB cut is worth about EUR 23 a month on a EUR 178,750 Spanish mortgage, and on a variable loan it can take up to twelve months to arrive. The full transmission chain, with the lag at each step.
NewsWesna GroupForeign Investment in Spanish Property 2025: The Nationality Ranking
Foreign buyers registered close to 97,300 Spanish home purchases in 2025, 13.8% of the national market. The British lead the latest quarterly ranking at 7.93% of foreign purchases, the Dutch have edged past the Germans, and in Alicante province foreigners took 42.91% of everything sold.
NewsWesna GroupRental Price Ceilings Spain 2026: Regions Affected
Ley 12/2023 rental-price-ceiling framework in 2026: Cataluña fully implemented (271 zones), País Vasco partial, Comunidad Valenciana adopting for Valencia city only, Costa Blanca coastal towns still unregulated. What buy-to-let investors need to know.
NewsWesna GroupEuribor July 2026: What It Means for Your Spanish Mortgage
12-month Euribor settled at 2.61% for July 2026, down 74 basis points year-on-year. What the fixing does to variable-rate holders' annual resets, why fixed-rate compression looks near its floor, and the current non-resident bank landscape at Sabadell, BBVA, CaixaBank and UCI.
NewsWesna GroupSpanish Mortgage Approvals June 2026 vs June 2025
Bank of Spain May 2026 approvals show total mortgages up 12.8% YoY, non-resident approvals up 18.4%. Median fixed rate compressed to 3.4%. What is driving the accelerating trend and what the June release will confirm, with the current best-in-market non-resident mortgage terms from Sabadell, BBVA, UCI and CaixaBank.
NewsWesna GroupCosta Blanca Sales Volume Q2 2026: What the Leading Indicators Say
Q2 official numbers land in late August. What the mortgage-approval data, listing-portal pageviews, and our own first-contact volumes show right now, and what to expect when INE and the Notariado publish.
NewsWesna GroupINE House Prices Q1 2026: +12.9% YoY Across Spain, +13.5% Resale
INE confirmed Spain's house price index up 12.9% year-on-year in Q1 2026, the strongest reading in 18+ months. Resale stock leads at +13.5%, new builds +9.1%. Working interpretation for Costa Blanca buyers planning a 2026 entry.
NewsWesna GroupBank of Spain Housing Market Report June 2026: Mild Overvaluation, No Lending Brake
The Bank of Spain's Spring 2026 Financial Stability Report puts Spanish housing prices 1% to 9% above long-run fundamentals, with no plan to introduce mortgage lending caps despite a 12.7% HPI gain in 2025. Real prices still sit around 15% below the 2008 peak. What the report says, what it does not, and what it changes for foreign buyers on the Costa Blanca and Costa Cálida.
NewsWesna GroupSpain's Supreme Court ends the national short-let registry
On 21 May 2026, Spain's Supreme Court struck down the national NRUA short-let registry. For Costa Blanca, Costa Cálida and Costa Almería owners, the regional tourist licence is now the only thing that matters.
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