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Spain's Banks Enter the Real Estate Market Lots of noise, little substance dariointernet.com Summary : 2009 The Quality of journalism in Spain is rather low if compared with that of journalism in the United States. For example, recently Spain's printed media published front page articles announcing with maximum flair and excitement that Spain's banks have entered the Real Estate Market offering apartments with major discounts . I would think a journalist before writing such garbage, should go and check if what the banks claim is actually happening! But since they didn't bother to check, I did it myself. What I found out was that these Banks overly exaggerate their claims and there is very little truth to their claims. In any case, even if there are discounts , they are on housing that is at a price range that is out of the reach of the typical Spaniard. So they are not solving anyones problems by giving a 30% discount on a property priced at 290,000 Euros....

A Big F in Math for Zapatero dariointernet.com Summary : May 12 Anti crisis measures announced by Spain's government May 12th 2009 was the debate of the state of the nation in Spain. At this point everyone knows exactly in what state the nation is: total dispare!!! with 4 million unemployed, twice the unemployment rate of any industrial nation, a ridiculous housing market with prices no one can afford, etc.. . This is the real snapshot of Spain . During the debate ZP as he is called over here, announced his measures to pull Spain out of the crisis. I read, and RE-READ the main measure several times to total and absolute disbelief . The main measure is designed to encourage people to buy homes. YOu tell me: What would encourage you to buy a home? . Here I am, having worked since my sophomore year in college and now I am approaching midlife and I still don't own a home. What would encourage me to buy a home is having money in my pocket. A nice measure, would be ...

These are the pair of really sweet "lobo" or "wolf" dogs in my neighbourhood. They are very calm and they let me pad them and touch them. There is a third dog of that breed in the neighbourhood. He is much older. He moves really slowly which might mean he is really old. But he is so sweet. It is owned by a hairdresser that has a barber shop in the hood! I had gone out for a stroll hoping some fresh air would lift my mood. But not even such a cute site could cheer me up. It was one of those days I had to think about my future. Here I am in my late 30s and still without an apartment of my own. Still renting. A friend from the UK saw my apartment and couldn't believe the ton of money I was paying for the shithole I live in. "You pay THAT for THIIIS??". And then thats the cheapest thing there was. I'm lonely. My anxiety level was so high today. I tried calling whoever I knew. One responded they had to work till 11PM, the other one lives in the outski...

Hola, Estoy apuntado en su programa de vivienda en Madrid. La verdad es que con tanta necesidad de vivienda que hay, los sorteos de "el Plan de Vivienda de Madrid" no me causan ninguna esperanza, ya que es dificil que de yo sea una de las 200 personas afortunadas de un sorteo de entre probablemente mas de 20000 solicitudes. Y si no vives en mostoles o en las afueras de la ciudad, parece que no tienes ninguna oportunidad. Yo vivo en el centro. Ayer miré prestamos bancarios y asi quede totalmente seguro que voy a morir alquilando habitaciones de señoras jubiladas que no me dejan empadronarme donde vivo, porque el estado si se entera les quita la pension! En el casco urbano de Madrid, es dificil encontrar un minusculo estudio por menos de 169000 Euros. La pagina web de el banco de Santander tiene un simulador estupendo. El 20% de esa cantidad, osea lo minimo que hay que tener disponible para que te den un prestamo, es Euro 33,600. Fijese que es dificil encontrar trabajo en Ma...

Ayer pedí permiso en el trabajo para salir 2 horas mas pronto porque iva a venir un tio de Telefonica para ponerme la linea de telefono. Bueno, hago esto, y llega el tio de la telefonica. Resulta que hay que pasar un camble por la habitacion donde esta la señora que me alquila la habitacion. Despues de llamarla y tocarle el timbre por 20 minutos, la muy XXXX sale y dice: No interrumpirme ahora, que estoy viendo mi telenovela!