legal and social barriers that threaten the future

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Galicia takes time faced disputes for the development of wind energy. In fact, the Galician government offered the energy produced at half price to try to mediate with the neighborhood community. However, this measure has failed to resolve legal conflicts, which has led the sector to take a desperate measure. No more wind. The sector He has faced A break due to controversial judicial decisions, in which more than 60 wind projects are paralyzed. A recent regulation approved by the Xunta, the Natural Resources Lawforces promoters to sell 50% of energy to local companies and to repower the oldest wind farms (more than 25 years). Obstacles in wind. On the one hand, the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) has annulled multiple projects for alleged deficiencies in environmental impact studies, applying a more strict criterion than that of other Spanish courts. On the other hand, social resistance has grown, with neighbors and environmentalists denouncing the negative effects of wind farms on the landscape, biodiversity and the quality of communities life. Besides, They have argued that wind development in Galicia is being carried out without adequate planning and without guaranteeing sufficient protection to ecosystems. For its part, and as well They have criticized other communities With greater installed capacity, they have denounced that the Galician community is treated as a “sacrifice zone” to supply other regions without receiving proportional benefits. Sos’s call. The publication of the Law 5/2024 in the Official State Gazettewhich modifies Law 8/2009 on Wind Regulation, has introduced additional measures to help the sector. This law includes the creation of windy renewable acceleration areas, where the environmental impact would be lower and the processing of projects would be carried out more quickly. In turn, the wind canon has been modified to adjust it to the new parks models, which could impact both taxation and benefits for local communities. However, this change has been criticized by various wind bosses, such as AELEC, AEE and APPA, who consider That the regulations distort the market and affect competitiveness. Despite having optimal conditions for wind installation, Galicia has to solve concerns about environmental impact and neighborhood opposition. Looking ahead, it will be necessary to find a balance to continue developing renewable infrastructure. Image | Unspash Xataka | In Europe, 2024 marked a turning point: for the first time solar and wind are eating gas and coal

How to create free images with Le Chat, Mistral’s European artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you How to create images with artificial intelligence wearing Le chatthe European alternative to chatgpt. Le chat is a chatbot created by Mistral, and like the main American actors in the sector it also allows you to create images. We are going to use screen captures of the Le Chat version, whose address is chat.mistral.ai/chat. However, you will also be able to do the same from the mobile using its official application On iPhone through the App Store and In Android from Google Play. Here, all you should know is that Le chat has the free option to create images very limitedand without paying you will only be able to create one or two per day. If you want to be able to create more images Create images with ia using le chat Creating images with artificial intelligence Le chat of Mistral is as easy as doing with any other. All you have to do is make a written requeststarting with the word Draw …. so that AI knows that you mean you want to generate an image. If you are on the main screen, under the writing field where you put the prompt you can click on a button with several icons. When you put it, you can decide what options you have active. Here, Be sure not to deactivate the image generation optionsince otherwise you will not be able to create them. In any case, what you have to do is ask the AI ​​to draw something concrete. For example, I have used the petition “Draw a cat playing football”. And when you do, in a few seconds the AI ​​will generate this image. Up to the right on it you have A button to download it On your device. Remember that when asking for an image You will be able to specify details and styles. For example, you can describe a little more in depth the elements you want to appear inside, and in styles you can put things like that it generates it as a cartoon. Don’t be afraid of long descriptions of what you want me to draw the AI. Here, remember that she is trained to understand everything you tell her, and the more details you are able to give you the more you will get closer to what you have in mind. In Xataka Basics | Le chat from Mistral AI: What is it, how it works and what can this artificial intelligence chat done in Europe do

In the war between communities of neighbors and tourist floors there is a key date, on April 3. And favors the first

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With the influx of tourists in Historic maximumsthe residential market Tensioning and the price of housing climbing until Nourish With those of the brick bubble, administrations have launched themselves to regulate tourist floors. In Madrid, Barcelona either Valencia The municipalities have moved file to put limits and in Seville they have even considered ending the illegal offer by closing the tap. Literally. From April 3 who want to devote themselves to holiday rental will have to deal with a new challenge: neighborhood communities. If until now they were the ones that suffered the most tourist floors, they are about to become the opposite: a way to stop their proliferation. What happened? That on April 3 a change of the Horizontal Property Law which will fully affect the relationship between neighbors communities and tour floors. And it will also do so in favor of the former, expanding its margin to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals. Legal change is included in the Organic Law 1/2025a rule published in the BOE earlier this year, but which has a period of three months to enter into force. What does the law say? Basically it establishes that anyone who wants to rent their apartment to tourists must get permission from most of its neighbors. And what is more important, has to have that collective ‘ok’ before leasing the floor. “You must previously obtain the express approval of the community of owners”, Clarify the new standardwhich also specifies that the decision must be made with a broad support of the three fifths of the owners. Wasn’t it so far? The legal change gives more tools to neighbors communities when limiting tourist rentals within their block, but that does not mean that until now they have had their hands tied. On the contrary. He Royal Decree 7/2019which entered into force six years ago, already provided that the communities could “limit or condition” the holiday rentals in the building if the three fifths of the owners agreed so. And can they report? Yes. Now the law goes a step further. It speaks of the need to obtain “previously the express approval” of the community and pronounced on the margin of maneuver that the neighbors have, even about the possibility of denouncing in case they detect a rented floor without their placet. “The president of the community, on his own initiative or of any of the owners or occupants, will require those who carry out the activity, without expressly approved, the immediate cessation of the same, under the warning of initiating the judicial actions,” indicates the law published in January. Does it have retroactive effect? No, the legal change will not have retroactive effect on the apartments that are rented respecting the norms. The text Published in January it is quite clear about it: “That owner of a house that is exercising the activity prior to the entry into force of the law, which has previously been accepted to the tourist sector regulations, may continue to exercise the activity with the conditions and deadlines established in it. “ The new law also echoed another of the powers that communities have and appeared already reflected in The 2019 decree: The whole of the neighbors may apply to the owners of tourist floors a “special quota” or “an increase in the participation of the common expenses of the house”. Of course, that increase should never exceed 20% and the decision must also be endorsed by a lazy majority of the three fifths of the owners. Is it a novelty? It is a novelty the entry into force of the law on April 3, but probably caught by surprise a few owners of flats and communities of neighboring. And not only because the regulations have been published in the BOE January 3. The government had been looking for the way to “empower” the neighbors in the face of the proliferation of vacation rentals and months ago he acknowledged that one of the ideas he had in mind was to give communities a veto power. “What we want is that the authorization of the neighbors be necessary, with a major I advanced In July, Minister Carlos Body in RNE. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and Tomáš Gal (Unspash) In Xataka | In Spain, floors are being rented as tourist accommodations without a license. Now also elderly residences

How the masses move

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On July 6, 2019, as every year, a crowd was crowded in front of the Pamplonese town hall. None of the nearly 5,000 people present at the beginning of the San Fermín festivities knew that their presence and movements during the science was going to be transformed into science. A wave of people. Specifically, in the study that He has revealed That human agglomerations are governed by the same laws that operate in fluid physics, at least from a certain degree of population density. The rebellion of the masses. In a study that could have delighted the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, studying the filling of the square in the minutes before the chupinazo, the team detected the threshold from which the movements of the individuals in the square ceased to be unpredictable and began to operate according to physical laws such as those governing fluid physics. The team studied the movements before the agglomeration, when the density of people in the square of just over 600 square meters around the two people per m²until reaching 9 people per m² in the moments of greater agglomeration. The team observed that the change in the dynamics occurred from the four people for m², when the contact between a person and those around them causes the clashes and shoves to become inevitable. It is at that time that the movement of one becomes the movement of many. In bird view. The study used images and videos compiled by the surveillance cameras located in the Pamplonesa Consistorial Square during the Chupinazos of 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Details on the study process and their results have been published recently In an article In the magazine Nature Oscuring mass. Through these images, the team was able to detect periodic oscillations of 18 seconds in the attendees. Oscillations that led to small groups of people to draw circular movements that dragged with them with increasing groups of people. “Being inside the town hall square during the chupinazo (…) is a unique experience. It is the closest thing to being a tiny particle trapped in a dense, chaotic and constant movement space, with the notable difference that the rest of ‘particles’ carry red scarves and, probably, they have had lunch with more wine than recommended, ” Describe for SMC Spain Iñaki Echeverría Huarte, a professor in the Department of Physics and Mathematics applied to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Navarra, partner of one of the authors but not involved in the study. More than leisure. Understanding the dynamics we acquire in agglomerations is not just a curiosity, it can help us save lives. The examples in which a tide of people has ended up being charged in mass events are countless. The team observed that the chiral dynamics observed in the Sanferminera massification were similar to those that operated in the tragedy of the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, to the west of Germany. On that occasion 21 people lost their lives and hundreds were injured. In Xataka | Three physicists sought the most dangerous sheet of paper for human skin. Not only they found it, they created a weapon Image | Travel24h

In these countries you already work less than 40 hours

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The reduction of day to 37.5 hours a week has given One more step in its processing In Spain. However, although it may seemA substantial change On the workday, it will actually only involve a mere administrative procedure for many companies whose collective agreement already contemplates a day of less than 40 hours per week. Despite this, Spain still has a longer working day than the European average. But how is the Spanish working day with respect to other countries of the world? 40 hours are the limit. According to Eurostat data Of 2023, the average of the day in real and common work hours in Spain is 36.4 hours. The Last data available The National Statistics Institute in this area are also 2023 and offers a slightly above figure with an average of 37.7 hours per week. That figure places Spain in a place slightly above the average of real hours worked in Europe by people between 20 and 64 years, which registers 36.1 hours per week. It should be noted that this data refers to the number of real hours that these employees work, including overtime, whether or not they are paid. Not to the Maximum workdaywhich in Spain is 40 hours per week. Work a lot, produce little. The European country with the longest working day is Greece that, with 39.8 hours, is followed by Romania (39.5 hours), Poland (39.3 hours) and Bulgaria (39 hours). It is striking that even those countries that supposedly have Larger real daysnone exceeds the average of 40 hours of real work. However, these long days that are recorded in these countries are associated with a low time productivity worked. For example, according to Eurostat data of 2022 collected by the BBVA FoundationBulgaria is at a tail at performance per hour worked, followed by Greece, Latvia and Poland. The most productive days. At the opposite end, countries with shorter working days are the Netherlands, with 32.2 hours per week, Austria (33.6 hours) and Germany (34 hours). If we do the same exercise of crossing the data of the real hours worked with the productivity of those hours, we see that these countries, with shorter days, obtain a higher performance of their working hours, being above the average. Spain with the 36.4 hours we have commented before, is located in the middle zone of the table. Portugal registered a day slightly longer than the Spanish with 37.7 hours, while below the day of Spain are that of France (36 hours), Italy (36.1 hours), Belgium (34.9 hours), Ireland (35.5 hours), Sweden (35.7 hours) and Denmark (34.3 hours). The working day in the world. According to ILO data collected by World Population Reviewthe average working hours in the rest of the world are very different. Among the most working are Bután with 54.3 hours a week, United Arab Emirates (52 hours), Lesoto (49.5 hours), Qatar (48.2 hours), Lebanon and Liberia (48 hours), Republic of Congo (47.9 hours), Jordan (47 hours) or Pakistan and Brunei with 46.6 hours per week. Among countries with smaller working hoursin addition to those already mentioned in Europe, they are Syria with 25.3 hours, Yemen (25.3 hours) and Mozambique (29.4 hours). However, most of the world works in the strip between 40 and 35 hours, with countries like Brazil with 37.9 hours, Japan (36.7 hours), Estatos United (36.4 hours), Israel (Israel ( 35.6 hours) or Argentina (35.4 hours). In Xataka | How are salaries in Europe, explained in a graphic developer Image | Eurostat

Amazon prepares to invest 100,000 million dollars in 2025. All for AI, of course

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I was missing in combat, but it seems that he wants to resurface strongly. Amazon, the company that imperially dominates the electronic commerce sector (and the cloud) seems to have awakened from its lethargy and promises to put the batteries in the AI ​​segment. And he will do it by investing an irreverent amount of money. 100,000 million dollars in 2025. This Thursday Amazon presented its financial results, and at the conference with investors Andy Jassy made clear His aspirations for 2025. “We spend 26.3 billion dollars in Capex in the fourth quarter, and I think that reasonably represents what can be expected for the capex rhythm in 2025”. Or what is the same: they plan to invest 100,000 million dollars during this year. Almost everything for the. And the clear focus, explained the head of Amazon, will be in the field that is attracting almost all the investment. He said that “the vast majority of that capex will be spent on AWS.” This means investment in data centers, communications and hardware equipment to meet the enormous demand in generative. The Big Tech spending like Big Tech. It seems that talking about stratospheric investments has become contagious among the greats of the industry. Alphabet revealed Wednesday that would invest 75,000 million dollars In Capex in 2025k, and Microsoft indicated that he planned to spend 80,000 million dollars In 2025 for the construction of data centers dedicated to AI. Goal is also in that race, and those responsible said the company will spend up to 65,000 million dollars In Capex this year. Do these investments make sense of Depseek’s emergence? The model Deepseek R1 He has put the Sector upside down, especially by demonstrating that it was possible to train a model that competes with the best for very little money. It is likely that the six million of those who speak Deepseek are only part of the total expenditure, but still the companies seem determined to continue investing and burning money as if there were no tomorrow. The creation of data centers is for these key companies of the future: it will be in which theoretically all the requests that billions of users will end up doing (according to their plans) will be processed at all hours. The new Alexa, protagonist. Amazon It takes months —Who years – preparing the launch of a new version of Alexa enhanced by AI. The company has summoned the media on February 26 to Attend an event dedicated to Alexaand it will be then when we can know his novelties. A lot of this renewed assistant is expected, which could play a fundamental role in the Amazon ecosystem. Amazon has invested a lot in Anthropic. It must be remembered that although there have been no releases such as those raised by OpenAi, Google or Meta, the company has strengthened its position with multimillion -dollar investments. Here the specific case is that of the 8,000 million dollars that Amazon has invested in Anthropic, head of the Chatbot Claude that could be a fundamental part of Alexa or other proposals and platforms in the short term. And they have a gigantic (but inaccessible) model. The company also has been working on Olympus, a gigantic LLM that has double parameters that GPT-4 and that in theory it must be able to compete with the most powerful models today. Amazon has not launched it publicly or is available, but if the leaks are confirmed, we could be facing another of the great protagonists of this sector. Will they license it as Open Source as they have made a goal and deepseek with their models? It will be interesting to see what happens to him. Image | Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2014 | Microsoft In Xataka | Stargate impossible accounts: the challenge of finding 500,000 million dollars for the largest IA project

OpenAI will receive 40,000 million dollars

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In his eagerness to maintain leadership in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), OpenAi is burning money as if there were no tomorrow. Therefore, Sam Altman It has been immersed in a career for months collect all possible capital. Masayoshi are becoming a key piece of its strategy. SoftBank, The Japanese conglomerate led by Son and known for its role in the failed Wework Stock Exchangeis about to close an initial investment of 40,000 million dollars in OpenAI. The information has not been confirmed by the companies, But it comes from anonymous sources cited by CNBC. An investment of colossal dimensions According to the data shared by the American environment, the AI ​​startup would receive an assessment of 260,000 million dollars before receiving the new investment. Once the arrival of the new funds was finalized, the assessment would make a substantial leap to nothing less than 300,000 million dollars. According to Financial Timeswe would be facing the greatest investment in a startup in history, a relevant fact if one takes into account that Openai began in 2015 and it was not until the arrival of Chatgptat the end of 2022, when its impact became global. Interestingly, this movement would take prominence from Microsoft. In 2019, the Redmond giant disbursedThe first 1,000 million dollars For OpenAi. He did it within the framework of an ambitious agreement to “support the development of the General Artificial Intelligence (AGI)”And where it was located in a comfortable position like exclusive supplier In the Startup cloud. Openai had the vision, had the talent, but did not have the money to advance. Later new investments arrived from Microsoft, which allowed him to reach 13,000 million dollars, and an observer post was profiled In the Board of Directors before the first crisis broke out in the signing of AI. However, the relationship with the company led by Satya Nadella has begun to be diluted. Microsoft is no longer the exclusive provider of cloud services for OpenAI, which opens the door for the artificial intelligence firm to use Computer infrastructures of other companies Or, if you wish, develop your own. The news occurs shortly after Openai and Softbank announced the creation of a joint company called “SB OpenAI Japan”which seeks to market products and services in Japan, but also has international ambitions. And previously, Son and Altman were in the White House promoting Stargate. Something that should not go unnoticed is that the days it seemed that Openai had An unmatched technology They seem to be falling behind. Companies like Google, Anthropic, Mistral ai and Deepseek They have proven to have the AI ​​models robust enough to compete in better conditions. Images | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Some researchers claim to have created an AI as good as those of Openai and Deepseek for $ 50. And the data is real

Bill Gates has radiographed Intel. And his diagnosis is overwhelmingly accurate

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Intel’s health is worrying. We have talked about the problems he faces This company with some depth during the last six months, but to delimit its context it is important that we remember that on August 1 he announced A very aggressive cost reduction plan which seeks to increase the efficiency of your business model and competitiveness. Its purpose is to reduce your expenses in More than 10,000 million dollars during 2025. To achieve this in essence, two fronts are attacking: 15% of its workforce has been undone, and, in addition, it has significantly reduced its investment in research and development, marketing and general administration. Presumably most of these cuts was executed before 2024 ended, so, on paper, for 2025 Intel’s maximum austerity strategy It will consolidate definitively. Bill Gates analyzes why Intel is in such a committed situation For users it is very bad news that Intel is going through such a delicate moment. It would also be to the same extent as AMD, NVIDIA or Apple, among other companies, cross a similar crisis. It is evident that what interests us consumers is that these companies compete with each other, and so that they can do so, they are necessary to be in the best state possible. Bill Gates also believes it. Your statements a The Associated Press They have no waste. “I am stunned because Intel has lost his way. Gordon Moore always kept it at the forefront, and now they are lagging behind in terms of chip design, and also to the manufacture of integrated circuits. And both aspects require a great capital investment. artificial intelligence (AI), and Your manufacturing capabilities They do not even use the standards that companies such as NVIDIA or Qualcomm consider simple. I think Pat Gelsinger was very brave when he said: ‘I will not fix the chips design; I will fix the manufacture ‘. I expected, for its good and for the good of the country, that it was successful “, Bill Gates has confessed. “The chips revolution for AI and their manufacturing capabilities have not even used the standards that NVIDIA or Qualcomm consider simple,” PAT GELSINGER Abandon Intel on December 1. Although it is already completely disconnected from the company that has led for almost four years, the possibility of separating the chips manufacturing subsidiary from the rest of the company remains above the table. However, like We explain to you At the end of November, if you finally decide to do so, you will not have complete freedom. And he will not have it because he has contracted obligations with the US government as a result of the reception of the 7,860 million dollars given by the Department of Commerce as a subsidy, and also of the 3.5 billion dollars which will receive from the Department of Defense to make chips for military applications. Intel’s commitment to the US administration directly involves the splitting of its semiconductor manufacturing division in the form of an independent subsidiary. The US government has asked Intel that Keep the property of at least 50.1% Intel Foundry if this business unit finally got to separate and acquire the form of a new private legal entity. And, despite everything that has happened in the company in recent months, as I mentioned a few lines above, this possibility is still on the table. Intel it is crucial to increase its competitiveness, and the splitting of chips factories could help you get it. Dave Zinsner, the company’s financial director, has declared That a possible formal separation of the manufacturing and development of products is a matter that is completely open and that will have to decide the next leader of Intel. He will decide if he goes ahead with Gelsinger’s plan, or if, on the contrary, he turns around. Right now it is difficult to anticipate what will happen, but whatever happens, as Bill Gates argues, it is desirable to be in good shape. Image | Pexels (Cottonbro Studio) | World Economic Forum More information | The Associated Press In Xataka | The next revolution of the chips is approaching. Intel, Samsung, TSMC and AMD already work on glass substrates

The price of housing in Spain is already higher than in the bubble peak. But the data has a small trick

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That Spain has A problem With housing it is no novelty. Even so, it is interesting to find data that specifies to what extent it has been complicated to access a house in this country. The Property Registrars they just disseminated one that results especially valuable And it shows that those who want to buy an apartment today meet the highest prices of the historical series, even above those of the 2007 real estate bubble. However, it is convenient to handle those figures with perspective. Prices above 2007. The real estate market is in full Price climbing. That also does not suppose any surprise and can be seen in the ascending curves that have been showing for a long time graphics like those of the idealistic portal. This week the College of Registrars published A report That leaves an extra, more interesting reading. The sustained price increase has led to the average housing price has reached in Spain “A new historical maximum”overcoming the values ​​that were handled in 2007, before the real estate bubble. According to the data collected by the registrars, the average cost during the last quarter of 2024 stood at € 2,164/m2. Table of the study of registrars on the evolution of the price of housing. Going down to detail. The dossier It allows to delve even more and check for example how the new and ‘second -hand’ housing housing market is responding, which has accumulated from afar the largest volume of sale operations. In fact, almost 637,000 transactions Scored by the professional body throughout 2024, just over 505,000 were starring used properties, 6.4% more than the previous year. The new house left ‘Solo’ 132,000 sale, although that data reflects a considerable increase with respect to 2023, of 21.6%. As for prices, at the end of 2024 the square meter of the release was charged on average to 2,338 euroswhile that of the already used properties was quoted at 2,133. In the first case the price exceeds that it was handled between 2006 and 2007, before the brick bubble exploded. The same does not happen with the second -hand housing, which although it has been more expensive, it would still continue slightly below of those prestisis values. Prices with small print. The study of registrars of Spain effectively shows an average price of housing in historical maximums, above of the 2007 level, but the big question is … does that mean that the houses are more uninquerable today than before the real estate bubble? To answer that question, you have to take into account the difference between the nominal valuesthat measure the current prices of each moment (in this case 2024) and The real onesin which the effect of inflation is taken into account. A few days ago, after the publication of the registrars dossier, Doctor of Economics Daniel Fuentes He warned in x which shows nominal prices, with which the comparison between 2007 and 2024 has 17 years apart. And its inflation. The nuance does not remain value to the report data, but it should be taken into account if comparisons are made with the prices prior to the 2007 brick crisis. Click on the image to go to Tweet. More perspectives. In fact, registrars are not the only ones who have published more or less updated information on Spanish real estate market prices. In April 2024 the Bank of Spain launched A report in which it clearly reflected the differences between nominal and real values. According to their calculations, in 2023 the average housing prices had been recovered since 2014 with a nominal revaluation of 56%; But in terms of real revaluation that rise was much lower, of 30%. What does that mean? That in the first case the prices of 2023 were about to exceed those of 2007 (they were 2% below); But in the second, taking into account the real values, the average of 2023 was still 28.5% lower at 2007. The indicator Tinsa Imie (monthly real estate market index) December It also shows that, although the values ​​have grown clearly, the general indicator It is still below of the scored in 2007. Graph of the Annual Report of 2023 on the housing market in Spain. Graph of the Bank of Spain on the evolution of the price of nominal and real housing. Evolution of the price of housing in Spain reflected in the October October report. Different situations. That current prices approach or exceed those of 2006 and 2007 also mean that the current scenario is the same as that of the years prior to the brick crisis. “The demand after the bubble was speculative, the one now is demographic,” says Fuentes In your tweet. During A talk with The country Santiago Carbó, Professor of Economic Analysis, also ruled out a crisis similar to that of the bubble. The reason: the great current challenge of Spain is the mismatch between supply and demand, rather than indebtedness, as was the case then. The problem, Carbó aboundsis that finding affordable housing becomes “increasingly difficult” and it will be difficult for the measures taken by the Government to let their effects feel this year or even the next one. “The incorporation of thousands of floors to the market would be needed to relieve this tension, and that requires years.” Is there more? Yeah. The study of the registrars allows to know three other factors equally interesting: the differences between regions, the number of signed mortgages and the weight of foreign buyers. With regard to the first issue, that of the lags between communities, the report shows that disparate realities coexist in the Spanish market. For example, while Madrid led the cost of the house, with € 3,780/m2, in Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura that average did not even reach the € 1,000 barrier. The weight of the foreign buyer … and the banks. The report also shows that the vast majority of purchases are made with bank financing. Throughout the last quarter of 2024, 124,000 … Read more

We have been fearing the arrival of the ‘Beast of the East’ a week and in the end an Atlantic front has sneaked into the squad

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In recent days, the big topic of weather conversation has been the ‘East beast‘. Many things have been said: from Nieves generalized throughout the country to a simple decrease in temperatures. What we did not expect was the “extraordinary turn” that the situation has taken. What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘Beast of the East’? As we explained yesterdaybeyond the controversy by name, the phenomenon is very simple: a mass of polar air that takes advantage of an Atlantic blocking situation to move from the northeast of the European continent to the southwest. That is, towards us. From ‘beast’ a ‘bestiecilla’. Unlike the ‘Beast’ of 2018the mass that was approaching had no capacity to form a cold and snow storm worthy of that name. However, since these situations are rare and difficult to model, there were many doubts and uncertainties. Beyond that We were going to notice the closeness of that mass of cold airnobody was very clear about what was going to happen. The unknown is clearing. On the one hand, the mass of air has started doing something that was as far as possible: cycloogenesis. These types of masses are very dry, but on their way to the southwest they can generate cold danas or storms. On the other, an Atlantic Front It has sneaked by the northwest and is on the way to the Southeast leaving generalized rains throughout the Peninsula (less on the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands). And what will happen? The interaction of the two phenomena will leave a lot of snow in the Pyrenees (already very low levels). The front will leave some water in most of the country. However, the great turn is that the instability that the front is creating will help moderate the cold peaks. That does not change the general image (it will be colder than usual), but it does make The worst forecasts are diluted Between the rain. In fact, as the front passes the temperatures will tend to rise. Be that as it may, care in the north third: snow, fog and ice will roast a few days between us. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | The Arctic is living a very anomalous situation: temperatures above zero in the middle of winter and a 30º thermal anomaly

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