Will 2024 be the year that you decide to give up work, sell up and move to Spain? It remains a popular choice among retirees. Almost four years on from exiting the EU, the visa application process is fairly streamlined. The non-lucrative visa is the gateway to UK passport holders who want to live in Spain and not work. It is the retirees visa! Webinar: Applying for the non-lucrative visa Thursday 18 January 2024. 10:00am GMT Free to attend, click…
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This is a guest blog post by Mathieu Edwards, Partner, Blevins Franks Javea. Both the Spanish state and autonomous community regional governments have been busy planning their budgets for 2023, which includes reviewing tax rates and allowances. There have been various statements over recent weeks, so here we summarise the key tax elements. While Andalucía hit the headlines first with the surprise announcement that it was effectively abolishing wealth tax in the region, this was quickly followed by the national…
There are early signs that the 90 days (in any 180 day period) rule might be up for discussion, allowing Brits to spend more time in Spain without the need for a long stay visa. The topic is being pushed forward by officials on the Costa Blanca, lobbying that there will be a negative impact on the local economy if British citizens are unable to spend Winter in the Valencian Community. Present rules will only allow three months at a…
Golden Visa Spain The Spanish Golden Visa scheme offers British citizens and other non-EU citizens a path to residency in Spain. The most common method is through an investment of €500,000 made through one or a number of property purchases totally at least this amount. Spanish residency also conveys visa free access to the Schengen zone. Sun Lawyers can provide all of the advice and support to help people through the Golden Visa Spain application process. Other investment channels are…
If you are an aeroplane geek, and aware of Flight Radar 24 (check it out if not) then the number of yellow aircraft emojis over France and Spain is all the evidence you need that travel around the continent of Europe is back up and flying. Is the dream of living in Spain back on? Looking at the number of flights, does that means people’s dreams of living in Spain are back on? Just because COVID has pushed Brexit off…
Good news for British property buyers as bureaucratic obstacle removed Britons buying typical homes in a Spanish military area no longer need to worry about disruptive delays, thanks to the scrapping of a law introduced over 40 years ago. On 2nd July 2021 Spain’s Ministry of Defence removed the requirement for non-EU citizens to obtain special permission when purchasing a home in one of the country’s strategic defence (or military) zones. This is welcome news for British buyers, who lost…
We are hearing that the Spanish Government is to scrap the 40 year old law that non-EU buyers of Spanish property (that’s Brits of course) have to apply for military permission to buy property sited on historical military land. This law created uncertainty and long delays to the time it took to complete on a property purchase. It was a law which didn’t apply when Britain was an EU member and in many ways has been proven redundant. In today’s…
This week the UK has taken a big step forward out of lockdown and plans to mobilise travel abroad are moving forward. A survey by the UK website A Place in the Sun – linked to the popular TV series – being published this week found that Brexit has not put off 76 per cent of people buying in the European Union, with 61 per cent of readers looking to buy in Spain, of whom 46 per cent want to…
We’re now three months on from Brexit – and not quite through the pandemic – but it’s clear that there are very many Britons still hoping to move to Spain. For some, cooped up after a long-hard winter, the appetite is even stronger, whilst for others, there’s the desire for a complete reset after a watershed year. Here’s what you need to know about moving to Spain after Brexit. So whilst we cannot just move freely back and forth as…