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Owners: ~4 months on the permit. Buyers: a two-question viewing checklist. Renters: a stronger case for the five-year lease.

Article 64 requires 'sufficient means' for the renewal period. It does not specify the form of means.

Three new rules on the road from 1 May. The cars in EU dealerships are catching up.

A Costa hospital worker is sleeping in her car. The failure is at the layer you can't see.

Madrid lost the ZBE in court last month. €650 million in fines stayed. Málaga is next.

€78 a month below Marbella for the same household basket. The Costa now has three prices, not eight.

EUR 2.2 million budgeted. EUR 12 million on pace. Tourist coaches are exempt by design.

Private premiums up 8-10%. SAS surgical wait at 173 days. How to use both systems deliberately.

Your cleaner, your handyman, your piano teacher. Spain just gave them papers and options.

0.86 beds per 1,000 people. The town hall read the numbers before you did.

The fix costs €5 at any post office. Most expats haven't done it.

Eight provinces. One is yours. Both ends of the housing timeline are paying.

Your electricity is staying cheap through the American-Iran crisis, so far. Here's why, and what people are doing to keep it that way.

Spain is closing the gap between residents and non-residents. Here's the trend nobody's connecting.

719 companies, 29,018 employees, and the same short list of English-speaking service providers.

Driving on an unexchanged foreign licence doesn't risk a fine; it voids your motor insurance.

If your rural home lacks a DAFO certificate, most buyers can't get a mortgage on it.

The reporting threshold is gone. Every bank transfer, Bizum, Revolut, and card payment is now logged automatically.

The legal cap is 2.14%. Most renewals on the western corridor are running higher.

The camera moved overnight. The V16 beacon is required. Your ITV plate is being scanned.

The top schools are filling fast. Aloha College has eight year groups full with waiting lists. For the first time in 35 years. EIC has waiting lists too. The one school with confirmed September places is 40 minutes away.

The AVE line to Madrid is still down. Easter is six weeks away.

Spain's largest migration regularization since 2005 is changing who competes for your apartment.

March is when you make the decisions before spring makes them harder.

Transaction volume is falling. Prices aren't. Here's what that means for you.