Opinion
HÉCTOR BARBOTTA
...rules of the game to make sure that the competition among local councils is as fair as possible. And also to avoid the creation of giant bubbles that, as usual, end up being paid for by all of us.
Opinion
Héctor Barbotta
...tourism. As the real estate bubble was still inflating, that was a debate that tended to end in a question: Why do they call it tourism when what they’re doing is selling houses? Now, with the tourist apartment issue there is one thing that makes it ... also true that many of the properties now up for rent to tourists are a product of that real estate bubble, that tourism pressure is forcing some long-term residents out of their urban neighbourhoods and that the tourism model based on properties rented ... unrepentant fanatics can trust that the invisible hand of the market will find the answer by itself for a new and complex situation that could determine the future of our strategic industry. We mustn’t forget that the worst thing about bubbles is that they end
Opinion
Mark Nayler
Rajoy's conservative Popular Party tackled the fallout from a burst property bubble in 2008 (a situation both similar to and importantly different from the Covid crisis) by slashing rather than increasing public spending. In many ways, that strategy was
Opinion
Pilar Martínez
...record-breaking figures and unusual growth for such a well-established tourist area. The first decline in tourism on the Costa del Sol since the financial crisis confirms that the vigorous upturn over the last few years was just part of a bubble that is starting
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
For the first time since this incredibly successful star of the cheap and cheerful wine market arrived on the scene ten years ago, Prosecco sales have fallen. WINE OF THE WEEK Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut Reserva The long-running battle of the g
Opinion
Peter Edgerton
...preconceived world view at any cost. We buy newspapers which reinforce our perspectives; we mix with people who conform to our way of seeing things; we even block or 'unfriend' (nice term) anyone on Twitface that disturbs our hermetically-sealed bubble of
Local
NURIA TRIGUERO
Ten years after the property bubble burst, the Malaga economy is back on track. Construction, property development and sales have once again become the leading sectors in which to set up in business in the province, according to the report ... intensifying. In that month alone, 115 new estate agencies were set up, compared with 54 in the construction industry. An obvious question arises: is there a risk of another property bubble? To answer that, it is best to look at different sectors. In terms
LifeStyle
ALEKK M. SAANDERS
...what is the meaning of life. I think you need to create a vacuum bubble around yourself and avoid media intrusion. At the beginning of this century many Russians who had enough of living in a consumerist culture started dreaming of leading a simple
Local
FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
...can be a major difference, depending on whether the cadastral value was set when property prices were high or after the bubble burst and prices plummeted. Variations The modification does not affect the rate the councils use for IBI or plusvalía,