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*Spanish bank predicts 60% total price fall. Spanish banks are not famous for being honest about property prices. Most are too concerned about avoiding write downs to be candid.

Irish prices down 64% not 50% say agents Irish property prices have fallen by 64% in Dublin according to real estate agents surveyed by the Irish Times.

*World’s most successful trader backs the euro George Soros, the man who made $1 billion by shorting the British pound on Black Wednesday in 1992, is backing the Euro by investing billions of his own cash.

Market Report – Andalucía 2012 Property finder Barbara Wood provides one of the most insightful reports currently available on the market in Southern Spain..

*Overseas property destination beats 2005 sales record If good news in our industry were an animal, it would be small, furry and hibernating. A little bit like a squirrel everyone assumed was dead.

*The beginning of a Spanish property shortage? Much has been made of Spain’s property glut but it seems that in the Costa del Sol at least, falling prices are beginning to clear the market.

*Spanish new build prices fell just 4% in 2011 New figures suggest that prices of new build properties in Spain fell just 4% in 2011, around half the average rate..

A cautionary industry tale It is easy to have 20:20 vision with hindsight but even the most successful industry people made mistakes as boom turned to bust.

“You’d have to be insane to sell there” part two Following Stuart Law’s stinging attack on the investment prospects of the eurozone and Greece in particular in 2012, we thought we’d canvass the opinion of other leading figures within the industry to find out who’s tipping what this year.

“You would have to be insane to buy there” Assetz Stuart Law, CEO, of Assetz, one of the largest UK-based overseas property companies, has launched a stinging attack on the investment prospects of a number of countries within the Eurozone.