Evicted 2,000 People By A Fire In The Murcian Mountains
Three homes have been destroyed by fire. They fear that the flames reach the urban centre of Portman. The wind makes it difficult the tasks of extinction. Nearly 2,000 people have been evicted in Portman (Murcia) once was declared a fire in a forest area close to La Manga Golf Club, in Cartagena, shortly before 23.00 hours on Thursday. A crew of ten fire trucks moved into place, although extinction efforts are proving complicated, as confirmed Francisco Bernabe, Mayor of La Union, town also affected by the fire, which has an active front of eight kilometres. This is a disaster, said Barnabas to Radio Nacional of Spain (RNE), who confirmed that the entire population of Portman had been evicted and the tremendous force of the wind was hampering the extinction of fire.
The fire, which has already destroyed three houses, is located a few metres from the town centre of Portman. Evacuees have been temporarily resettled in three pavilions while finds means to extinguish the fire, since its location, in a zone full of ancient mining traps and abrupt, makes it virtually impossible to tackle it from the ground. Six forestry brigades, fire Consortium and Cartagena firefighting service, working in the fire and you are awaiting the arrival of air assets. Source of the news: Desalojadas 2,000 people by a fire in the sierra murciana
Jose Blanco
Although improved by 22% compared to the first quarter of 2011. According to data from the Ministry of public works, in the second quarter of the year more than 1,000 homes were sold each day. New housing represented only 33.7% of sales. The collapse of the sale of homes not located limit. The number of homes sold during the second quarter of this year stood at 90.746 houses, representing 40.8 per cent less than in the same period of 2010, according to the Ministry of development. I.e., a few thousand homes were sold each day. Of the data provided can join one positive: there is an increase of 21.9% compared to the posted between January and March 2011 sales.
Similarly, flats transactions by foreign residents in Spain grew by 22.9%, to 8,514 units. Ministry of Jose Blanco attributed the descent to the greater the increase in VAT which came into force in July 2010, that could have caused a larger number of sale and purchase of housing focus between the months of May and June of the last year. In total, in the last year (July 2010 – June 2011) 396.245 apartments were sold in Spain. In addition, for by the VAT hike, this market was affected by the disappearance last month of January of the tax relief by sale of homes for income exceeding 24,000 euros. Almost 70% are dwellings used by types of housing, the new represented 33.7% of the total number of transactions, which continued thus losing weight with respect to the used, which already accounts for two-thirds of the total number of sale and purchase. By autonomous communities, the buying and selling of flats rose in all communities in comparison with the first quarter of the year, with the exception of Galicia, where drops a 1.32%, and Navarre (- 15.74%).
Side rises, the more pronounced are recorded in Cantabria (+ 45.9%), Catalonia (+ 39.2%), La Rioja (+ 36.2%) and Aragon (+ 33.9%). Transactions of dwellings rose in 45 provinces in the second quarter of the year compared with the period January-March, that Burgos, Soria, Zaragoza, Santander and Barcelona counted 40% increases. In terms of falls, Lugo, Segovia, Navarra and Guipuzcoa presented above 10% declines. Source of the news: the sale of houses collapses a 40.8% in Q2
Dictatorship
They are almost 2,000, 800 of them in Catalonia. It is estimated that they took away nearly 3.5 billion pesetas of the time, current 5.3 billion. These families were left out of the compensation of the law of historical memory. Nearly 2,000 families throughout Spain, including about 800 in Catalonia, ask State recover the Republican money that was seized them from 1938 and until well into the postwar period. All of them have joined in the grouping of Perjudicados by the Pro-Franco seizure, which this Saturday held an annual meeting in Barcelona. The entity was formed in 2005, since when collects copies of all receipts that were issued then and which officially certified the money that these families had to deliver. All them were left aside from the law of historical memory, approved in the first legislature of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and they had come to be more than 2,500, but many of the grouped are dying because they are older, and already not may never recover the money that seized them, has explained one of the driving forces behind the entity, Lidia Jimenez.
1,365 Pesetas, seized her maternal grandparents and receipt had so how equip her mother, Montserrat Capdevila, and that since the 1960s has come in a myriad of occasions to Office of the Bank of Spain in plaza de Cataluna in Barcelona to try to collect it. The answer has always been the same: that not even playing, explains Lydia, you still saving as a precious commodity inherited receipt of their grandparents, hoping to collect as soon as possible. Members of the institution have spent years delving into the official archives documentary evidence showing the seizure, that estimate was 3.5 billion pesetas of the time, according to the minutes of the Bank of Francoist Spain. They estimate that a Republican peseta equals day to 1.5 euros, so that today, the value of the confiscated amount would exceed the 5,300 million euros.