Last year was a black year for small Spanish businesses. According to the self-employed associations UPTA and UATAE, 13,586 stores closed in just twelve months, an average of 38 closures per day. In the last decade, Spain has lost 142,000 local businesses, almost 20% of its commercial fabric. Behind every ...
The Supreme Court has confirmed that patio owners can maintain the fences that delimit their property, even if this forces neighbors to stop their tractors and get out to open them by hand every time they need to pass. The High Court considers that this maneuver does not impede access, ...
A decade ago, Rosa and Jesús believed in the promise of the new politics. They contributed money to Podemos when the party talked about equality, social justice and defense of the weak. Today, that same couple, retired, has been left without a home, without rental income and without faith in ...
Electrical problems in a home can trigger short circuits and fires capable of destroying a house in a matter of minutes. Although in many cases these incidents are related to installation failures or overloads, sometimes the origin is completely unexpected. That’s what happened to a Florida family, whose home was ...
A man started recycling cans and bottles without knowing that it would help him buy his future house. At first he only did it as a hobby, but after 7 years collecting containers he obtained a sum of 46,000 dollars (just over 38,000 euros), which was enough to participate in ...
This Wednesday, February 11, Madrid was once again filled with tractors. From Guadalajara, Segovia, Toledo or the Community of Madrid itself, hundreds of farmers and ranchers toured the capital to protest against the direction that European agricultural policy is taking. Convened by the Union of Farmers and Ranchers and the ...
The Supreme Court has once again ruled on the installation of charging points for electric vehicles in garages of communities of owners, reaffirming a doctrine that had already been established in previous resolutions. When the charging point is installed in a parking space for private use, permission from the community ...
More and more retirees are exchanging trips and being at home to fulfill one more dream and return to the university classrooms. In Spain, this phenomenon has its own name: the silver students. These are men and women who, after a lifetime of work, decide that it is never too ...
Who hasn’t dreamed of living next to the sea and having a house next to the beach? Well, this ‘dream’ quickly became a ‘nightmare’ for a man from the United Kingdom who, after achieving his life goal and buying a house with sea views for almost 260,000 euros, saw how ...
Talking about inheritances is entering a true labyrinth of legal limits. Unlike other countries, our Civil Code does not allow total freedom: the legitimate freedom, the third reserved by law for children, is a barrier that cannot be broken. However, within the third of free disposition, affection is gaining ground ...