For Life in Spain
May 23, 2013
Two developments in Spain’s dysfunctional housing market went in opposition directions on Thursday. On the one hand, the Andalusian government initiated an embargo on the home of a woman in financial straits who was facing eviction, while on the other the national parliament approved amendments to legislation governing the rental market that allows the...
May 13, 2013
The wife of Santiago del Valle, the man convicted of the January 2008 murder of five-year-old Mari Luz Cortés in Huelva, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined 732 euros for giving false testimony during her husband's trial. The judge considered that Isabel GarcÃa "radically" changed the story she had given during the investigation stage of the...
Apr 22, 2013
A British citizen, aged around 70, died yesterday as a result of drowning after falling into a lake on the Matalascañas golf course in Almonte, Huelva, after attempting to pick up a ball that was lost. The accident occurred at the Dunas de Doñana golf course, at playa de Matalascañas, when the player attempted to continue the game from the lake to hole five,...
Dec 16, 2010
The National Cabinet Office released the population figures of Spanish municipalities last week, resulting from the municipal census recorded at January 1, 2010. The figures showed that there are a total of 8,370,975 people registered in Andalusia, with a growth of 0.8 per 100 over the previous year. In Malaga, the figure is 1,609,557, up 1% on the same date...