Spanish Unemployed be monitored hard Unemployment fell April

May 5th, 2012

Spain Government wants to strengthen the controls on them that lift unemployment payment. According to the Spanish Employment Services are plenty of registered unemployed who are residing abroad. To prevent this and want the the Spanish Employment Services control the passport for travel stamps and also will the presence requirement be tightened.

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Savings need to do all the procedures examined, in order to prevent unnecessary wastage. Another new feature is that the Spanish Public Employment Service records shall be reconciled with the tax ministry; to prevent individuals raises premiums they are not entitled to.
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Furthermore want the Spain government to the unemployed to take a class in which they are informed of their rights and obligations. The purpose is to inform you that unemployment compensation is not an automatic right for what is paid into the insurance fund, but that anyone who raises contributions have obligations to accept a job, if it shows up.

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The Andalucia Unemployment fell in April 2012
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In April 2012 decreased the unemployment rate by 7.571 persons in Andalusia and on 1 May were 1.049.573 unemployed. There is a decrease of 0.72 percent compared to March, the figures come from the Instituto Nacional de Empleo (INEM).

The drop in unemployment in April is a common phenomenon when Easter occurs this month. During the period attributed to fixed-term contract of employment.

This is the first time in eight months as unemployment falls. In the province of Malaga, fell the unemployment by 2.500 in April. But the decline is smaller than at the same time 2011.

On an annual basis harden Andalucia unemployment increased by 117.466 persons or 12.6 percent since April in 2011.

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No money to the tram between Velez-Malaga and Torre del Mar

May 4th, 2012

The tram between Velez-Malaga and Torre del Mar stops scrolling at the end of May. The municipal leaders of Velez-Malaga have made the decision to suspend the tram service, the first of its kind in Andalusia. The reason is the accumulated losses and the Andalusian regional government’s reluctance to inject money.
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The tram between Velez-Malaga and Torre del Mar accumulate a deficit of 2.5 million Euros and the decision to set the traffic equivalent of municipal leaders in annual savings of 1.7 million Euros.
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The reason that local government leaders in Velez-Malaga is delayed one month to discontinue streetcar service between Velez Malaga and Torre del Mar is that it needs to build more bus routes between Velez-Malaga and Torre del Mar first.
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Advertising apparent at Marbella municipality‘s expense.
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Marbella municipal inspectors have located 140 billboards which had for years been illegally connected to Marbella’s power grid.
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Marbella municipal savings needs has led to irregularities that lasted more than ten years been discovered. Two companies have advertising contracts with the municipality of Marbella has been found to connect more than one hundred billboards to the municipal power grid, which was not included in the contract.
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The signs have now been disconnected and that consent will be reviewed. Marbella municipality expects a saving of 15.000 Euros a year.

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Benahavis Marbella seventh most densely immigrant in Spain

May 3rd, 2012

Benahavis, on the border between Marbella and Estepona, is the seventh densest immigrant community in Spain, information from a study of the savings bank Caja Espana, Caja Duero and the report “Datos economicos y sociales de las unidades territoriales de España”.

Last year 2011 was the foreign population of 61.9 percent of all residents in the municipality of Benahavis Marbella. Benahavis is known for there lives so many rich and famous people in their luxury Marbella apartments and the magnificent Marbella villas.

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Spain’s six immigrant densest municipalities are all located in the province of Alicante. It is San Fulgencio, Rojales, Benitachell, Teulada, San Miguel de Salinas and Calp, all have between 62.6 percent and 77 percent immigrants.
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After Benahavis in Marbella comes Mojácar (Almería), Alfas Del Pi, Javea and Torrevieja (Alicante), Santiago del Teide and Adeje (Tenerife) and Castelló d’Empuries (Girona).

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More foreign tourists in Marbella when the Spaniards stay at home.
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It promises to be a nice tourist summer in Marbella. The first prognoses for the summer say that the number of foreign tourists to increase in Marbella in the summer. However, the number of domestic tourists who choose Marbella to decline.
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“Last year, the number of Spaniards who chose Marbella on holiday with 80.000, while the number of foreign visitors by 150.000″ said the Tourism Officer of the municipality of Marbella Jose Luis Hernandez.
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Analysts believe that last year’s trend will continue for Marbella even during summer 2012. That is to say that Spaniards are becoming fewer and more foreigners on holiday in Marbella. Among the foreign tourists is increasing affluent travelers from the United States, Russia and countries of the Persian Gulf who like Marbella.

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The Spanish banks need 80 billion Euros

May 2nd, 2012

The British weekly magazine The Economist writes in its latest issue that the Spanish banks need 60.000-80.000 Billion Euros. The Banks need to get money in order to regain market confidence.
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According to the article entitled “falsa Cumbre” false top meeting, said several investors and analysts about the situation in the Spanish banks. Last week, the IMF reported that the Spanish banks need capital; they said on the other hand, no amount or how much it would move on.
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The Economist reports that the Spanish banks have it “difficult” to attract private capital since the country’s economy is currently under review. There have also been reports suggesting that Spain could be the next country that needs help from the European rescue fund.
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On April 27 2012 there appeared new dark cloud on the Spanish sky. Unemployment continues to rise and has now reached 5.6 million, or 24.4 percent of the working population. It is the same figure recorded during the first quarter of 1994 and the third worst figure since 1976.
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In the province of Malaga, unemployment has increased by 255 persons per day since the beginning and has now reached 274.900 persons or 34.6 percent. The Spanish unemployment is expected to continue rising until 2015, it means that the Spanish banks are in even greater need for capital.

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Marbella property is truly hot property!

May 1st, 2012

If you have dreamed of buying a apartment, penthouse, townhouse, bungalow or a villa or any other type of property on the Costa del Sol in Spain, then one of the first and foremost places that comes to your mind is Marbella.

Its a location that will surely fulfill those dreams of spending warm sunny days on the golf courses together with friends or on the long sandy beaches on the lovely Mediterranean coastline.

Marbella town, a seaport located in the middle on the Costa del Sol, is one of the most popular places for people wishing to buy a property in Spain. It have so many different options to choose from city Marbella property, front lines beaches apartments, small townhouse communities around a swimming pools area or expensive luxury Marbella villas in totally gated and security areas in the mountains.

Many people want to be close to the beaches because the beaches in Marbella and on the Costa del Sol, backed by pinja trees covered hills, are reputed to have the finest sandy beaches on the Mediterranean coast and that’s way so many want a Marbella property.

A lot of credit for the current demand for Marbella property in the area must go to the Marbella commune and mayor of Marbella Ángeles Muñoz, whose planning policies have laid down strict restrictions on the stipulated of Marbella property buildings plans and the PGOU rules. The consequent low-rise development policies have ensured that the area has more green and open areas, the people comes first and not the construction jungle that we can see in many other towns in Spain.

Now is it lower prices on Marbella properties.

Today is one of the biggest advantages of buying a Marbella property is that prices are much lower than ever, from the top prices years 2006 and 2007 has the prices on the Costa Del Sol gone down about 20 – 30 %, for example, and typically front line beach Marbella apartment in Elviria was before around 400.000 Euros and today is the prices around 325.000 Euros, the same is for a Marbella villas, before around 600.000 Euros and today is the prices around 450.000 Euros.

Couple this with the growth of tourism in the region of Marbella and Costa del Sol and you can see the immense potential to buy a property in Marbella now. We don’t think that the prices is going more down, instead slowly starting going up again, so you can not only expect a substantial appreciation in Marbella property prices but also expect to get good rental income owing to the high demand from both Spanish and Europeans nationals.

The opportunities by an investment in a Marbella property are good, it is always people who want to live under the sun all year around in a nice and comfortable life and the latest government figures point out that the best performing regions in terms of property investment lie in the Mediterranean coastal areas.

So don’t forget that old adage: when it comes to buying property, it is all about “location, location & location” – and undoubtedly, the location that is really hot again is Marbella and Costa del Sol.

Who is the buyer of Marbella properties?

Of course, has the Scandinavians, the German and the UK people has always been the main driving force for Marbella properties for sales in Marbella, but now days also is the Russian and Arabian coming in as new money strong buyer on the market who want luxury Marbella villas.

Together with the extremely cheap airplanes tickets from various airports in Europe and the world to Malaga and Granada airports have contributed immensely to the attractiveness of Marbella to a property investment haven, statistics show that apart from the European increasing numbers to buy property in Marbella and on the Costa del Sol.

Marbella property is good for the investment market, because the area Marbella and Costa del Sol has the possible of stable rental income all the year round. Marbella property investors can with a two bedrooms and two bathrooms apartments for example, expect a rental income of about 800 Euros per week during the summer from the holiday’s people and 500 Euros per week during the autumn and winter season from the golf players.

Marbella and Costa del Sol can offer you; highly exclusive golf, lifestyle resorts and low rise luxury villa complexes with bars, restaurants and a host of other facilities. So, if you are looking for an overseas property in Marbella on the Costa del Sol that gives you a regal lifestyle at great prices, then can we highly recommend you to buy a Marbella property as one of the best options.

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Spain tourism industry wants the Spaniards holidaying in Spain

April 30th, 2012

The Spanish tourism industry and employers are asking the Spaniards to holiday in his native Spain this summer. Joan Gaspart who is president of the Tourist Authority, the Consejo de Turismo de la CEOE, told yesterday an appeal to Spain’s inhabitants to close this summer’s holiday in Spain.
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Joan Gaspart came with the invitation in the context of the Third Summit “Cumbre del Consejo de Turismo de la CEOE” which was inaugurated by the Spanish Queen Doña Reina Sofía. “Spain needs the Spaniards in the country, and Spain is a wonderful place that has everything a holiday requires.”
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Spain residents account for 50 percent of the country’s tourism. In times of crisis is the income that comes from the tourism industry a top priority.
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Since the Spanish reforms in the public sector and high unemployment affects the middle class which in turn affect the influx of Spanish tourists to the Costa del Sol during the upcoming season.
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The forecasts are not good according to the president for hotel owners’ association, Asociación de Empresarios Hoteleros de la Costa del Sol (Aehcos), José Carlos Escribano.

“Even during Holy Week, Semana Santa, we saw a decline in tourist influx. Although we anticipate an increase in the number of foreign tourists is not sufficient to offset the number of Spaniards who do not choose the Costa del Sol “.

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Mudder from leisure ports to expand the Marbella beaches

April 29th, 2012

There will be trucks that will be used when the beaches in Marbella should be filled with sand and expanded for the summer. Instead, the sand dredged during May at leisure ports La Bajadilla Marbella and Puerto Banus to be used.
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With rain and storms disappear the sand into the sea and it applies particularly to beaches Fontanilla, Casablanca and San Pedro Alcántara. These beaches need 40.000 cubic meters of sand, says the Environmental Officer of the municipality of Marbella, Antonio Espada.
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Now the 30.000 cubic meters of sand raised by dredge fishing port of La Bajadilla in Marbella and a further 10.000 cubic meters of sand from Puerto Banus to be used.
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Marbella municipality to cope with the beaches is too small. This means that the number of sun beds should be reduced. This summer it will be 1.100 fewer chairs, a total of 11.340. The space is simply not to.
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Marbella Municipal insists on building groynes to protect the beach. They are waiting for the project can get started in San Pedro Alcántara who is first in line.

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Buying an Apartment Marbella the Costa del Sol

April 28th, 2012

Are you thinking of buying a apartment on Costa del Sol in Spain – where the sun always shines and you can play golf year round? Then you might want to look for apartments for sale in Marbella on Costa del Sol. In fact, you might want to specifically consider Marbella apartments for sale, where your pension money is likely to stretch further.

Why choose an apartment Marbella? Marbella is the place where you’ll enjoy spectacular beaches and warm sunshine all the year around. Lying on the Costa del Sol has Marbella sandy beaches on a long coastline and the Mediterranean Sea. You can feel the cool Mediterranean Sea breeze rustle your hair as you cast your eyes towards the sea from the slopes of mountains in the interior of Marbella. Marbella has many small rustic white villages as inhabited by warm hearted people to add to the charm of Marbella.

You can always find a cheap and charming apartment Marbella situated in one of three main areas. In the Old Town, you’ll be steeped in the bygone age of Spain with its traditional architecture from the Arabic and Moorish time and old Spanish life evoking a degree of nostalgia. Here, you can find charming Marbella apartments for sale in the form of quaint apartments suitable for those hankering after simpler surroundings, away from the hustle and bustle of modern living.

For them how want a taste of the sea, you may like to live in a Marbella apartment on the Paseo Maritimo in the one of the three marinas Marbella has. The sea brings people to life on a more traditional mode of Spanish life that is appealing to those with a love for the wide expanse of the clear blue sea.

Puerto Banus, Cabopino, San Pedro Alcantara, Nueva Andalucia and Elviria is an area in Marbella where you are likely to locate Marbella apartments fronting the beach and close to the numerous of bars, chiriquitos and restaurants with something on the menu for global taste buds. The sandy beaches are a plus point for residents who call the surrounding properties in Marbella for their homes.

The excellent climate and strong British exchange rate compared to the Euros for make a buying of an apartment Marbella on the Costa del Sol. The most British and Scandinavian resident want a second home under the Spanish sol.

The hospitality and warmth of the inhabitants of Marbella commune will make your holidays or living in Marbella both memorable and exciting.

You can escape the cold winters in Scandinavia and the British Isles to languish under a broad rimmed hat in the sunshine of Costa del Sol or Marbella when you are playing golf. The low cost of living with fresh produce available at astonishingly low prices make your dinner to a pleasure.

This warm region all year around in Southern Europe draws numerous tourists every year, many of whom are looking for a second home among the apartments Marbella for sale on Costa del Sol.

When you decide to buy one of the apartments Marbella we have for sale, you have opted to reside in an excellent location in Costa del Sol, along the sunshine Spanish sandy coast.

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Spanish banking sector worries Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg

April 27th, 2012

Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg sees the Spanish banking sector as the biggest threat to Spain’s economic recovery.
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News agency Reuters quotes Anders Borg, who, during a performance of the Peterson Institute in Washington took up the economic situation in Spain.

He argues that although the Spanish government succeeds in balancing the public budget Spain forced to ask for an aid package, the banking sector is not cleaned up. According to Anders Borg is on the last days of unrest in the stock market is a sign that there are many questions about Spain’s potential recovery.
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The Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg believes that Spanish banks need about 38 billion Euros to be decontaminated and he calls for a more flexible approach from the European Central Bank ECB.

The Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg points out the high percentage of bad debts, which the Spanish banks have the current situation, at 8.2 percent, while adding that Spain can not be compared with Greece and that country’s own resources to overcome the crisis.

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Home prices fall 20 major cities U.S. February 2012

April 26th, 2012

Home prices in 20 metropolitan areas around the United States fell 3.49 percent in February compared with January 2011, according to S & P / Case-Shillers index. According to Bloomberg News survey of analysts expected prices would have fallen by 3.40 percent year on year.

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The corresponding index for the previous month showed that house prices fell a revised 3.94 percent over the same month the year before (-3.78).

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Compared to the month before, prices, seasonally adjusted, by 0.15 percent in February, following a revised decline of 0.12 percent the previous month (-0.04). Best Development in February, compared with July 2011, reported from Phoenix, +3.28 percent, and Detroit, +1.51 percent.

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The largest price declines reported from Atlanta with – 17.27 percent and Las Vegas with -8.54 percent. In New York, prices fell 2.96 percent in February compared with same month last year, in Los Angeles; prices fell by 5.20 percent and in Chicago, prices fell by 6.95 percent.

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S & P / Case-Shillers Index is based on repeat sales, and therefore provide a more accurate picture of price trends than as specified in the sales of existing homes. The limited sample size may mean that the index overstates both price increases and price falls, compared with broader measures of development for U.S. home prices.

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