Are you thinking about extending your property, building a swimming pool or even just changing your kitchen? In Spain, you need to have licences to carry out even some minor works that you would not need permission for in your own country. New laws are now making it even more important to ensure that your property has all the correct licences in place.

Read about the new laws and how they might affect you:

In this Youtube video you can listen to our explanation of how to make sure that home improvements are legal:

What can British people expect if they decide they would like to live in Spain after Brexit? The short answer is nobody knows! There is plenty of speculation but, as David Ruiz points out in this article, even those in power and legal and tax experts don’t really know what will happen. He warns us not to listen to the advice of people with no qualification to give it.

What David makes clear is that whatever happens afer Brexit, obtaining residency will never be any easier than it is now. So, if you are living in Spain, the advice goes, take control and ensure that you have the correct paperwork in place now:

Well at least for most of us. The Spanish property site ‘Idealista’ has published its research into the ten most expensive streets in Spain. As you might expect, what we’re really looking at here are the ten streets containing the most expensive houses. Pretty luxurious, but perhaps not the best places to organise a bar-b-que with the neighbours?

This is the original article in Spanish but it contains photos of the streets themselves:

This is the article from Euroweekly in English:

Have you stayed in a parador yet? These state run luxury hotels are well worth a visit. They tend to be in renovated, traditional Spanish buildings such as old churches and convents and usually have a high level of facilities. Some of them are in more unusual locations, towns and cities that you may not have visited otherwise.

The Telegraph identifies 14 of their favourites:

Ábaco also has an article about them in Spain Explained:

Whatever your views of Benidorm it’s true to say that it is something of an unusual town. Its skyscrapers are distinctive and the Benidorm skyline cannot be mistaken for other places in Spain. This article, for El País in English, is an interesting explanation of how Benidorm came to be and provides us with details of its record-breaking structures:

Over the years we have regularly updated our readers on the progress of Corvera airport. At times, no one was sure whether it would ever open and speculation continued around the future of this and San Javier airport.

Following its opening, it’s perhaps come as no surprise that the airport has found it difficult to establish itself. Some of the major airlines have been reluctant to schedule flights there and the big winner would appear to be Alicante airport whose passenger numbers have grown.

However, the extent of the difficulty has been reported differently and in this article, Murcia Today seeks to put the record straight as to how many passengers have actually been lost: