In a further move to potentially limit property purchases by foreigners in Spain, Barcelona city council is exploring ways to ban investment funds and non-residents from buying homes in the Catalan capital that won't be used for residential purposes.

Barcelona's mix of affordable cost of living and quality of life has helped create a vibrant startup community — and become a hotbed for the creation of surveillance technologies.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Spanish Prime Minster, Pedro Sánchez, announced Sunday a series of government reforms and policy proposals, including harsh restrictions on non-EU residents purchasing property. The measures aim at

Barcelona’s town hall has pledged to completely ... on homes bought by non-European Union residents by up to 100%. Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, Sánchez said ...

Spain is working on implementing a tax as high as 100 percent for houses purchased by non-EU citizens to mitigate its housing crisis.

A new report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has concluded that air pollution in the EU continues to be a danger to health and that, despite recent improvements, member states might fail to meet future targets unless ‘existing and additional’ measures are effectively implemented.

After wide scale anti-tourism protests over the summer, Barcelona is trying to turn a negative into a positive by spending some of the money raised from the city's tax on visitors to tackle issues ...

Major cities — Athens, Kraków, and Barcelona were those selected by the ECA — are failing to tackle noise and air pollution. The authors attribute this to the lengthy infringement processes of the European Commission, city authorities’ misuse of funds EU, and local resistance to measures such as low-emission zones and green spaces.

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A tax of up to 100 percent on Spanish property deals by non-EU nationals living outside the country is one of the leftist government's flagship proposals to tackle a housing crisis.

Brexit has been blamed for ruining the plans of Britons looking to move to Spain, following an announcement by the country’s prime minister that he is looking to ban property purchases by those from outside the European Union.