Asset Rich but Cash Poor?
For many British ex pats living in Spain the current economic situation is detracting from their quality of life and spoiling the dream. However, there are many solutions.
FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS FOR BRITISH EX-PATS IN SPAIN
Over the last eight months or so retired people living in Spain have been finding it increasingly difficult to make ends [...]
AN ESTATE AGENTS WHINGE!
The media is a wonderful thing and I’m sure it is!
It has helped to create this global village and bring us all a little closer together and as we all know, it’s only the bad news that hits the headlines. So if we take Spain as an example, we have seen some fairly depressing reading [...]
SPAIN ExPat – GOOD INTENTIONS.
Over the past 10 years or so the number of UK citizens who have relocated to Spain has increased dramatically. One major contributing factor is that because of EU membership, Britons are free to go live and work anywhere they like within the membership states, immigration without need for permission no need for any work [...]
RELEASED FROM PAIN IN SPAIN
Over the last eight months or so retired (longer than that now) people living in Spain have been finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet, caused mainly by the £ versus the € exchange rate fluctuations. The weak Pound has effectively wiped nearly 25% (and now more than that 26/01/09 ) off the value of UK [...]
Why it is important to have a mortgage in Spain.
Why it’s important to have a Mortgage in Spain?
I will give a brief overview of the importance of having a mortgage in Spain and one of the reasons is that you will pay more in taxes than is necessary and particularly if you are classed as a non resident in Spain.
The money you borrow on [...]
UNDER 65’s NEED NOT APPLY.
Every comes to those that wait.
No mortgage repayments ever again
The rules of the game are changing all the time and this very week (w/c 19 Jan 2009) the minimum age to qualify for The Lifetime Mortgage has now been increased from age 60 to 65 years for each applicant. So now if you are 65 [...]