The housing crisis drives donations to historic highs in Catalonia

The housing crisis drives donations to historic highs in Catalonia

Lifetime donations soar to historic highs in Catalonia in a context of crisis in access to the real estate market, as a way to help family members. In 2025 they increased by 22%, with almost 23,000, ten points above the Spanish average. In the first quarter of 2026 this trend continues, with increases of 20% and 6,188 signed. “Today we talk about problems of access to housing, obtaining resources… With parents who have accumulated savings, the option of donation is increasingly present” as a solution, explains Raquel Iglesias, vice dean of the Col·legi Notarial de Catalunya.

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Sánchez declares in Barcelona: “The ultras and the subservient right-wing are shouting because their time is running out”

Sánchez declares in Barcelona: “The ultras and the subservient right-wing are shouting because their time is running out”

“It all started in Barcelona!”, Pedro Sánchez has assured will be remembered in the future. While a far-right international has been operating freely around the world for years, accelerated after Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, this Saturday a progressive international, convened by the head of the Spanish Executive and the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has started in the capital of Catalonia, as an alternative to the global reactionary wave and the new geopolitical and ideological order encouraged by the President of the United States.

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We do not deserve all this

We do not deserve all this

Sometimes everything happens purely by chance. Or not. The fact is that the long-awaited statement of the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz at the National Court to defend himself regarding his alleged involvement in the police operation to spy on the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas has…

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‘Tradwife’ literary universe: conservative housewives arrive in bookstores

‘Tradwife’ literary universe: conservative housewives arrive in bookstores

That one of the most anticipated literary debuts of the year features a tradwife as the protagonist is not something that should be surprising. For those unfamiliar with the term, this anglicism is an abbreviation of traditional wife, or in other words, traditional housewife, and this is how Natalie Heller Mills, a character in the novel Yesteryear (AdN) by Caro Claire Burke, who has just arrived in bookstores stirring much excitement among readers, refers to herself. It is no wonder, as actress Anne Hathaway, who these days can be seen on the big screen starring in The Devil Wears Prada 2, has purchased the film rights to turn the novel into a movie, playing the role of Natalie herself. She will thus go from being a promising girlboss ready to succeed at Runway magazine, directed by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), to quite the opposite.

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Puente encourages Puigdemont to return to Spain and be arrested: “It would be a gesture of political leadership”

Puente encourages Puigdemont to return to Spain and be arrested: “It would be a gesture of political leadership”

The Minister of Transport, the socialist Óscar Puente, spoke out this Friday about the CJEU rulings that the day before endorsed the amnesty. “They are very serious, not only because they highlight the legal error made by the Supreme Court or the National Court when arguing that the Amnesty law violates community law, which had no basis, but because they prove that there is a part of the judiciary in Spain that does not respect the legitimacy of the legislative power, and believes it is above it to say what can or cannot be legislated,” he warned on RNE.

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Only 13% of apartment purchases in Barcelona are made by companies or funds

Only 13% of apartment purchases in Barcelona are made by companies or funds

Despite the perception that investment companies dominate the buying and selling of homes in Barcelona, the data shows that the vast majority of transactions in the Catalan capital are still carried out by individuals. According to a report prepared by the Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona with data from the Notary Statistical Portal, individuals accounted for 87% of the sales registered in 2025, compared to 13% signed by legal entities. Last week, the Parliament gave the green light to urgently process the restriction on the purchase of homes in pressured areas unless it is to reside, for a family member, or to rent it out residentially, with the aim of avoiding real estate speculation by funds.

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Zapatero had a decisive role in decision-making at Plus Ultra according to the UDEF

Zapatero had a decisive role in decision-making at Plus Ultra according to the UDEF

The former Prime Minister had a decisive role in the turbulent life of the company Plus Ultra according to the UDEF in the new reports released today. The documents, accessed by La Vanguardia, describe for example the determining role of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the task of persuading a shareholder who did not accept the viability plan without which the Spanish government’s aid would never have arrived or, in another case, report the influence of the former president in obtaining flight permits from the Venezuelan Government for the company.

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