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Spain bans 'golden' investor visas for non-EU citizens in a bid to curb the housing crisis.

Spain this week stopped allowing non-EU citizens who make property investments access to residency visas, closing off a pathway to Spanish citizenship.

The government said it introduced the measure to help ease Spain’s housing shortage that could reach a deficit of 600,000 homes in 2025.

mediafaro.org/article/20250404

Demonstrators demand more affordable and sustainable housing amid rising prices in Madrid on 9 February 2025. | © Javier Soriano, AFP
France24 · Spain bans 'golden' investor visas for non-EU citizens in a bid to curb the housing crisis.By Joanna York
#Spain#Visa#Housing

Some Manitoba snowbirds flocking back to Canada over U.S. political climate
Some Manitoba snowbirds are selling their properties in the United States after year of spending their winters there, saying they feel pushed out by an eroding sense of safety and growing tensions in the U.S. under Donald Trump.
#politics #migration #economy #property #Manitoba #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sn

Eurozone: Nominal residential property prices and a synthetic euro area aggregate of capital cities 2006 – Q3 2024

Ευρωζώνη: Ονομαστικές τιμές κατοικιών και τιμές οικιστικών ακίνητων για ένα συνθετικό σύνολο πρωτευουσών της ζώνης του ευρώ από το 2006 στο 3ο τρίμηνο 2024

A quotation from Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1816-01-06) to Charles Yancey

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/759…

'The John Lewis Partnership has plans to enter the property market as a build-to-rent housing provider.'

readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25

'A facility run by John Lewis in Reading that was used for customers to collect items is set to be completely demolished and replaced with flats in the near future.'

Reading Chronicle · John Lewis Reading: what's happening as depot will closeBy James Aldridge