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Beds 2u spain is a family run company offering huge discounts on quality beds and furniture. We pride ourselves on great customer service, high end stock, prompt delivery, and unbeatable prices. All of our beds are selected by us from overstock of well known UK retailers. Handmade in Turkey, our beds are quality, stylish, and...

IT’S the must-have boiling water revolution coming to sophisticated  kitchens around Spain. But the story of the Quooker begins in 1970. Henri Peteri was in London, at the multinational Unilever’s headquarters, when he had an inspiration that would change his life forever. It was during a presentation about instant soup. It was shown how to...

A NEW high quality prefabricated home is being marketed for €27,556 by Amazon in Spain. Covering 70 m2, the Nyab is larger than other prefabs that are available and claims comfort and security in all types of extreme weather conditions. It consists of three bedrooms, kitchen, air conditioning, bathroom with shower, toilet, sink, water heater,...

SodaStream, the world’s number one brand for sparkling water consumption, arrived in Spain in 2022 to offer a completely personalized way of drinking at home through its sparkling water machines. As simple as filling the SodaStream bottle with water up to the marked line and connecting it to the machine. Then, with just the press...

THE deadly fire that killed 10 residents of a Valencia apartment complex may have been spread by the use of a highly flammable cladding banned in the UK, the Olive Press can reveal. Ten people perished in the inferno on Avenida del General Alives on February 22, including a newly-married couple and their two-week old...

IDEALISTA listings have revealed that there are now only two studio apartments available in Alicante for €600 per month, the cheapest offerings in a city where demand for affordable housing now far exceeds supply.  Alicante — which once offered entire flats for 300 or less — is quickly becoming one of Spain’s tightest housing markets,...

DESPITE fears of a post-Brexit slowdown and the negative effects of interest rate rises, UK buyers dominated mortgage application requests for home purchases in Spain last year. The conclusion comes from the online mortgage platform Hippo, which says applications for home financing by non-Spaniards in 2023 was 7% higher than the previous year. 40% of...

AN ambitious American has revealed her plans to transform an ancient palace in Spain. Incredibly the woman, known only as Monica C, purchased the historic building online while surfing the web from her home in California. The property, in Cervantes, Galicia, had failed to sell for €225,000 over a four-year period, before it was snapped...

A NEW expert index comparing locations for high-net-worth individuals to invest has ranked Madrid as the hottest property market in Europe. The 2024 Barnes City Index studied 50 cities across the globe for “practical, emotional and financial criteria” that included social life, business, taxation and culture. The Spanish capital was placed as the best in...

THE costliest area for properties on the Costa Blanca has been revealed to be on the Calpe coast. Buyers looking to purchase a home by the town’s Arenal-Bol beach will have to a pay an average price of €7,049 per m2- compared to the national average of €2,215. Not only is that the highest figure...