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STYLISH: Hip new wine shop wows visitors, while this spacious interior of a new development in La Reserva is tempting world’s wealthiest investors
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HE Costa del Sol and Barcelona are driving up demand in Spanish property. Data from Spain’s Instituto Nacional ca shows that, on an annualised basis, de Estadistihouse prices grew 6.8% in the second quarter of 2018 with new-build price tags rising 5.7% (see report page IV). However some areas are clearly picking up more of the It comes slack than others, with Catalunya rising 3.7% while Galicia growth as the country is continuing impressive economic by just 0.7%. after being among the worst hit countries by the 2008 crisis. The data is the latest confirmation of a trend of strong In 2017, demand for Spanish property. the total number of home sales in Spain increased 14.6% to 464,423 units from the previous year, according to
Spanish property is a hot commodity and that’s not changing anytime soon
the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Analysts suggest a good portion of (INE). is being driven by foreigners buyingthe recovery in housing homes on the Costa del Sol and in cities like Barcelona. And despite Brexit, the largest number of foreign homebuyers are British, followed by the French, Germans, Belgians, Italians and Swedes. The outlook for Spain’s housing with house sales expected to rise bymarket remains upbeat, to reach about 550,000 transactions between 10% and 15% this year, according to TINSA, the country’s official valuation and surveying body.
Walk this way OVER 2,000 trees and tens of thousands of plants are set to revolutionise the look of Palma’s seaside promenade. The €20 million project will create a far leafier, more pedestrian-friendly arrival in the city from 2020. However, the Paseo project, designed by Ibiza architect Elias Torres, is likely to anger motorists, who are set to lose a lane in both directions, as well as 124 parking spaces, the majority by the Palma Auditorium. The winning project, announced by the Port Authority (APB) this week, will see paths widened between Porto Pi and Avenida Argentina. There will be a zebra crossing introduced every 100 metres and traffic lights will also change quicker to help offset the reduction in lanes.
GREEN FUTURE: Sketches of planned upgrade “It will make the paseo a greener, more human space and one of the best in Europe,” insisted Palma mayor Antoni Noguera. “It will convert it from a six-lane motorway to a new space for citizens.” The first of the 2,150 trees are set to be planted early next year, after a five month period of fine tuning.
Too late! By Laurence Dollimore
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SPAIN’S weather agency AEMET has been slammed for issuing weather warnings ‘far too late’ during the deadly Mallorca floods. Finance minister Catalina Cladera demanded answers over the issuing of a red warning at 10.26pm, AFTER the first of 13 deaths had already been confirmed. “They didn’t make any predictions, as they’re supposed to do,” she said. “AEMET instead issued 16/06/2017 15:36 warnings as a reaction to what was already happening.”
AEMET slammed after issuing red warnings ‘far too late’ during deadly Mallorca floods It has now emerged that the warnings came many hours after firemen were already out on a series of rescue missions. It was also three hours after Mallorca’s Emergencies chief, Pere Perello, decided to send troops to the Llevant district, at 7:33pm. “The lack of prior warning from AEMET made it impossible to act with greater foresight,” added Cladera.
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A high-level meeting with Spain’s Environment minister is now on the books to ‘undertake the necessary changes’ at AEMET. It comes a few days after the father of a young boy killed in the Mallorca floods thanked a cyclist for saving his daughter. Brit David Robinson, was almost left without a family after his wife Joana, 40, and his two children, Arthur, five, and Ursula, seven, were swept away in their car in Sant Llorenc. Joana Lliteras, a 40-yearold pharmacist, drowned after somehow plucking her daughter from their car, which rapidly filled with water, saving her life. In a remarkable story, Ger-
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DROWNED: Mum Joana man cyclist Daniel Thielk then picked up Ursula from the gushing current and kept her safe in a nearby cabin for several hours. Tragically, Arthur was found dead more than a week later by a volunteer helping with the clean up.
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His tiny body was buried in metres of mud that had washed down from mountains in the heaviest rainfall the island has ever seen a fortnight ago. He was found close to where his Spanish mum performed a dramatic rescue of his older sister. The family of Arthur and Joana penned an open letter to the media to thank them for their efforts in finding little
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