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29S - signifying September 29th, the day of the general strike in Spain. Union members are protesting against the recent labour-law changes which they say favour the employer, not the employee. The popularity of the Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero has taken a big hit over this particular issue as he had previously vowed not to mess with employment laws without the approval of the unions. However, when the unions stood in the way of ANY change, Zapatero decided to implement them without their approval - hence the general strike today. Union representatives say that Spanish workers are already under-remunerated compared to their equivalents elsewhere in Europe. They say that many Spanish workers are on temporary contracts with reduced entitlements when they should be on permanent contracts and greater benefits. Employers say that they use temporary contracts to skirt-around the high cost of hiring and firing workers on permanent contracts. They say that they'd employ mor...

Over the past few years we’ve heard a lot of talk of Disney opening up a theme park in the Manilva area on the Costa del Sol.  In fact, many estate agents sold properties under the premise that Disney were coming and that it would mean that property prices would increase due to the resulting tourism in the area. Must of us knew all along that this wasn’t really ever going to happen.  Disney were not about to put their Paris theme park out of business, even though originally they had planned to build the “Euro Disney” in Spain; the actual location being what is today the Selwo Adventure Park in the Costa del Sol. The lack of infrastructure in the area is allegedly what put Disney off and chose, perhaps mistakenly, Paris instead. Now more recently we’ve heard a lot of talk about Paramount Studios opening up a theme park in the Murcia area of Spain.  Although originally many people assumed this was just another rumour, the fact of the matter is that the Paramou...

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One Bed Apartment, Atrium I, La Cala Yes that's right, we sold this property during the month of August in the relatively short time of five weeks. Whilst location, location, location is still paramount, the most important aspect is pricing the property correctly, and actually having an informed agent who will tell you where your property should be priced.