The number of Brits living in Spain fell by over a fifth in 2013 as the exodus of Spain's foreign residents brought the country's total population down for the second year in a row, data released on Tuesday shows.
Bargain-hunting foreigners purchased one in every ten houses up for sale in Spain in 2013, as foreign investment into the country's embattled property sector soared to the highest levels in nearly 10 years.
Expats in Spain are taking to Twitter to vent their frustrations about life in the country. Here The Local has selected some of the funniest and truest tweets.
Police from Spain, the UK and Serbia have arrested 110 people around Europe in a sting operating targeting scammers who defrauded UK investors of millions of euros, new information shows.
British expats living in Spain are being urged to register to vote on Wednesday — which has been named the official "Overseas Registration Day". The final deadline for registration is May 6th.
British expats craving anything from Marmite to a good ol' cup of Earl Grey, look no further. This new interactive map will allow you to look up your closest British shop, baker's or butcher's so that you only have to open up the fridge to feel like you're back in Blighty.
Last week the BBC's channels disappeared and now expats across much of Europe have also lost reception of ITV and Channel 4. The problem is the result of broadcasters switching to a new satellite but experts say that there may be solutions, depending on where you live.
Thousands of British expats who have taken early retirement in Spain will now have to get private health insurance following the UK government’s decision to scrap free access to their local Spanish health care system.
Spain has a higher number of UK benefit cheats than any other country in the world, new figures provided by the British Embassy reveal. More than 750 cases were investigated in Spain last year by the Department for Work and Pensions.
British and Irish expats in Spain who are fighting to hold on to the right to vote in their home countries were finally handed a boost by the European Commission on Wednesday. But will it change anything?
Welshman Nigel Hadley has been ordered to sell his home in the southern Spanish city of Marbella to repay nearly £26,000(€31,500/$42,750) in welfare benefits he falsely claimed from his local UK council.
Spain lost nearly 200,000 registered foreign residents in 2012 as the country's economic crisis continued to bite, official figures released on Friday show.
In this week's edition of My Spanish Career, The Local talks to experienced Ohio doctor Mary McCarthy about how she built a medical career in Barcelona and what expats need to know when dealing with Spain's health system.
The number of British expats and tourists needing consular assistance in Spain fell sharply last year but there was a worrying increase in the number of rapes and sexual assaults.
Thanks to an all but forgotten 45-year-old property law he found with the help of Google Translate, Englishman Keith Rule has provided hope to thousands of expats who lost money in failed Spanish property ventures during the credit crunch.
UK government investigators are cracking down on the country's Spain-based expat benefit cheats, a group they claim are the world's worst when it comes to welfare fraud.
In this week's instalment of My Spanish Career, The Local talks to real estate agent Graham Hunt about surviving Spain's property crisis, why the country's new home rental law is so confusing and whether Spaniards really lack an entrepreneurial spirit.
Spain is becoming a model for social integration in Europe as a new study has found fifty per cent of second generation immigrants living in Spain consider themselves Spanish.
This week in My Spanish Career we talk to Romanian HR director Andra Enescu about working life in Barcelona, what she looks for when recruiting foreigners and whether Catalan is a must for the office environment.
This week in My Spain we talk to Barcelona-based New Zealander Charlotte Warren about life by the sea, the fine art of wine tasting and running clubs with drinking problems.
If your hopes of looking for work in Spain have been dented by news of sky-high unemployment rates, ever-decreasing salaries and long working hours, think again.
