The recession has left 1.5 million warehouses empty in Madrid and Barcelona according to latest data from Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Consumption of electricity represents 54.2% of the total energy consumption.

Industrial energy consumption exceeded 9,682 million euros in 2009. This item of data represented an 11.8% decrease as compared with that registered in 2007, the last year that this survey was conducted.

The main energy products used by industrial companies were electricity (54.2% of the total), gas (27%) and petroleum products (13.7%).

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The number of mortgages that change conditions decreases 14.1%, while registered cancellations increase 1.6%

During the year 2010, a total of 956,127 mortgages registered in the land registries were constituted on rustic and urban properties, which implied an 11.7% decrease, as compared with 2009. The capital of the new mortgage loans decreased 18.2%.

The average amount per mortgage constituted in 2010 on the total properties was 127,767 euros, 7.3% less than the previous year. In the cas...

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It’s a 2% fall with respect to December and the sixth consecutive reduction in the number of foreign workers. There are now 1,777,567 registered foreigners in the system.
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The data comes on the Day for Wage Equality. Data for 2008 places Spain below the EU average regarding women’s wages which are 78.1% that of men in Spain on average.
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Numbers for January in absolute terms show 119,000 more tourists than in 2010 at a total of 2.6 million.

It’s estimated that more than half a million tourists will change their holiday plans this year in Spain’s favour, following the troubles in the north of Africa and Middle East.
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The production of vehicles in Spain went up by 10% in 2010, with a total of 2,387,900 units manufactured. The manufacture of passenger cars accounted for 1,913,513 units, an increase of 5.6%.

2010 can be divided into two distinct periods for vehicle production. During the first six months of the year, the rate of production remained high, partly as a consequence of the impetus provided by incentive plans still in force in some European countries including Spain.

The second half of the year saw ...

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• The report quantifies the attractiveness of Spain in comparison with 17 other countries, all potential competitors for FDI.
  
• Spain’s strengths in attracting foreign investment include the favorable overall environment for business, infrastructures and its highly skilled professional labor force.
  

Spain is the seventh most attractive economy for foreign investment among the developed and emerging countries it is competing with directly for the capture of Foreign Direct Investment. Over t...

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The average wage fell by 0.4% in 2010, despite the year ending with 3% inflation. The numbers, from the National Statistics Institute, come as Germany is demanding that wages be linked to productivity instead of inflation.

45% of workers in Spain who do overtime, do not get paid any extra at the end of the month. That number goes over 70% in some activities such as computing professionals, while in financial, real estate or education the percentage is over 85%.

The average cost for an hour of o...
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