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Architecture in Spain: Casa Son Vida, Palma de Mallorca

SpainHouses.netMarch 6, 2013March 6, 2013Leave a comment

Located near Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Casa Son Vida brakes the boundaries in matters of luxury and futuristic home approaches. The project comes from tec Architecture in collaboration with Amsterdam-based Marcel Wanders Studio, responsible for designing the interiors. This villa is said to be the first of the 6 planned luxury residences in this exclusive area.

Here is some further information from the architects: “Casa Son Vida 1 aims to redefine the notion of the luxury villa by moving most of the paradigms of luxury towards a more contemporary and forward-looking expression of architecture and technology. The project pushes the envelope in every direction and every sense; it is highly sustainable, basically off-the-grid, gives an unheard of sense of space and place, explores new construction technologies, and enters into a critical dialogue with the decorated box buildings in its vicinity. Casa Son Vida 1 is unavoidably exuberant and unabashedly outrageous.”

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Families join waiting list to squat in empty apartments in Málaga 3

SpainHouses.netMarch 4, 2013March 4, 20133 Comments

News that an organised group of squatters had moved into an empty block of flats in Malaga’s Calle Ventura Rodríguez has given hope to more families with few or no financial resources.

Couples with young children, or with babies on the way, have turned up at the building in the hope that there would be room for them, but have been turned away. Under the organisation of PAH (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca) formed to fight against evictions due to mortgage default, 17 family groups have been accommodated in the 14 apartments. Due to the unexpected demand the association has started a waiting list and plans to comb the city in search of new potential squats. These, explained PAH member Fali Doblas, must be uninhabited buildings that belong to banks, builders or public administrations.

In the case of Ventura Rodríguez, the building belongs to Bankinter since it was repossessed when the builders went bankrupt. On Wednesday bank sources confirmed that no action had been taken yet but that lawyers were studying the possible legal routes to take. The bank stressed, however, that it has halted all eviction procedures in mortgage default cases.
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Beautiful Villa for sale in San Roque (Cádiz)

SpainHouses.netMarch 1, 2013March 31, 2020Leave a comment

6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, Area Lot 2,582m2, Built area 1,412m2, Swimming-pool, Second Hand, Cádiz

SOTOGRANDE: A luxurious villa located between 5 renowned golf courses in a secure villa enviroment.

The house comprises of 6 bedrooms, a living room, seperate dining room, marble floors, sauna and turkish room and the advantage of a lift.

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Theatre in Almonte, Huelva, by Donaire Arquitectos

SpainHouses.netFebruary 27, 2013February 27, 2013Leave a comment

The building is located in Almonte (Huelva), on the site of an old winery. It has the challenge of integrate the existing old buildings, declared as cultural interest, and being part of a cultural complex of a total of three buildings and a common space. This space turns into the main place of the town and an important meeting area.

An opportunity to work on light, material and space. The path chosen to work on these concepts, is the contrast. Contrast between outside and inside, between old and new, including a monumental scale and human scale. And the journey as the thread that sews and explains the intervention. A large area covered with large proportions and controlled height works as a high threshold. A monumental scale lobby welcomes the visitor showing the scale of a public building.

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Real Estate Company, Reyal Urbis, calls in the receivers with debt of 3.6 billion euros

SpainHouses.netFebruary 25, 2013February 25, 2013Leave a comment

Some five years after the bursting of Spain’s massive property bubble, the casualty list of companies and individuals that have fallen victim to what former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan termed “irrational exuberance,” in this case for bricks and mortar, continues to swell.

Real estate firm Reyal Urbis on Tuesday told the National Securities Commission (CNMV) that it was calling in the receivers after failing to reach an agreement with its creditors to refinance 3.6 billion euros in debt in what is the second-biggest failure in Spanish corporate history. The biggest collapse was also a property company: Martinsa Fadesa, which eventually managed to escape being wound down after reaching an accord with its bankers to pay back 7.2 billion euros in liabilities over 10 years.

In a later statement to the CNMV, Reyal Urbis said it remained in talks with its creditors to find a solution to its financial problems. It said that the solution would revolve around setting up a subsidiary to which practically all of its assets and liabilities would be transferred. The option also remains open to creditors of canceling loans granted to the group in exchange for property assets, an arrangement known as dation in payment.

The CNMV suspended trading in Reyal Urbis shares, which closed Monday at 0.1240 euros, giving it a market capitalization of a mere 36.2 million euros.

Reyal Urbis’ creditors include the asset-management firm Sareb, the so-called bad bank set up by the government to absorb the toxic property assets of the country’s banks, an arrangement that may also help out the sclerotic real estate sector.
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Marvelous Apartment for Sale in Estepona (Málaga) 13

SpainHouses.netFebruary 22, 2013February 22, 201313 Comments

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Built area 170m2, Swimming-pool, Second Hand, Estepona, Málaga

This development presents itself as an indisputable expressión of "exclusivity". A luxury alternative of the highest standard in quality, security and services. A careful selection of owners one of the main keys to this paradise away from the cliches of the Costa del Sol. It is comprised of 7 buildings, 85 apartments, penthouses and deluxe duplex penthouses, unique due to the location and high spec finishes, maximum quality the whole in every detail.

On front-line exclusive beach but without renouncing the commodities of being in town and adjacent to the beach Playa del Cristo well known for luminous mornings and divine sunsets.

It is situated right on the shore-line of the blue Mediterranean orientated to the magical straits of Gibraltar which separate Europe and Africa. Comprising 85 comfortable apartments in seven elegant buildings following Neoclassical architecture in pure white, embracing the Mediterranean heart in form of its winding gardens, fountains, plazas, walk-ways and promenade.
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Casa Batlló, Gaudí’s Architectural Treasure in Barcelona, Spain 1

SpainHouses.netFebruary 20, 2013February 20, 20131 Comment

Casa Batlló, built between 1904 and 1906 in the heart of Barcelona (Spain), is the most emblematic work of the brilliant Catalan architect.

Gaudí gave Casa Batlló a facade that is original, fantastical and full of imagination. He replaced the original facade with a new composition of stone and glass. He ordered the external walls to be redesigned to give them a wavy shape, which was then plastered with lime mortar and covered with a mosaic of fragments of coloured glass and ceramic discs.

Casa Batlló is a key feature in the architecture of modernist Barcelona. Nowadays, the spectacular facade is an iconic landmark in the city. The "Manzana de la Discordia", or Block of Discord, is a series of buildings in Passeig de Gràcia. It is home to a collection of works by the most renowned architects, amongst which is Casa Batlló. The house, now a museum, is open to the public, both for cultural visits and for celebrating events in its splendid modernist function rooms.

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Spain’s ‘bad bank’ begins business 1

SpainHouses.netFebruary 18, 2013February 18, 20131 Comment

Last week, Spain’s so-called ‘bad bank’, which was set up in December 2012 to take over toxic property and land assets from the country’s troubled financial institutions in order to ‘cleanse’ their books, started promoting its first batch of properties.

The new state-run bank, ‘Sociedad de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria’, known by its acronym SAREB, began its operation by putting 13,000 properties, once belonging to rescued lender Bankia, on the market.

In total, by the end of last year, SAREB had taken on 37 billion euros worth of assets from four nationalised banks. In exchange, the banks received EU rescue funds as well as bonds.

These assets, purchased at knock-down prices are to be sold on to investors over a 15-year period, offering a minimum return of 14 per cent.
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Excellent House for sale in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Canary Islands

SpainHouses.netFebruary 15, 2013March 31, 2020Leave a comment

Maspalomas Area, 2 bedrooms, Area Lot 259m2, Area useful 103m2, Second Hand

The house of this week is a stunning villa situated in the popular area of Maspalomas, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Las Palmas (Canary Islands). Maspalomas is a modern tourist resort, which measures approximately 3 by 2 miles and made up of extensive residential estates and luxurious private villas. West from the fringes of Playa del Ingles towards the small beachside settlement of Oasis Maspalomas lies a golf course and modern shopping centres.

The home has an open concept and a modern and elegant style. Light-filled and bright coloured it is just perfect for a family. Wide garden and swimming pool area.

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Contemporary Architecture in Spain: Bilbao Arena

SpainHouses.netFebruary 13, 2013February 13, 2013Leave a comment

The lovely Bilbao Arena lies on ancient iron mines, close to the old part of the town in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). It offers a sports center, a restaurant, a court that can be used by locals and players too and more. The Bilbao Arena is split into two: at the very top of the structure it encloses so it shuns away the noise coming from Bilbao Basket while the bottom of the building is occupied by the sports center.

The design of the entire project is interesting since the Bilbao Arena is meant to look as a tree. Its façade has a metal structure with painted steel sheets that hide the metal components that are found in the arena. The façade is permeable and the corridors don`t require air conditioning or ventilation and the design of the building allows a clear exit if a fire bursts out.

The limestone in the area inspired the designers to paint the sports center in a similar colour and the shape of the sports center looks just like a rock. The three spaces of this center communicate between them in cascade and they also offer access to the swimming pool, gym and parking zone.

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