Links

The most helpful, complete advice on how to go freelance (autonomos) in Barcelona, it's aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language but it was spot on with the procedure. One little note IVA (Spanish VAT) is pronounced "Liva" (L'IVA) when someone is talking to you at the tax office.

Loquo is a classified ads pages for Barcelona. This link is the English section and includes stuff like jobs and accommodation.

English language magazine/e-mag with a useful collection of links to other resources.

Cheaper hotels and hostels in Barcelona. There is severe shortage of middle of the road hotels in BCN - it's either 4 or 5 star and very expensive or cheap and cheerful. When you're visiting and looking for accommodation cheap and cheerful is fine

Hotel and accommodation reviews from around the world, but lots for BCN, especially useful for smaller hotels and hostels. We use the advice a lot in helping friends and family choose hotels when visiting

If you are renting or buying property in BCN this is the main aggregator site with properties across estate agents (like Rightmove in the UK) - the Spanish are only just getting into the Internet for this type of thing and it took ages to find this website. Idealista also publish data on changes in property prices year-on-year.

Helped out with some link checking on this site. Has a list of apartments and pisos in Barcelona

Rental website if you're just interested in renting with lots of properties to let long-term.

A place to hunt for houses and properties. Acts as a repository for other sites. Very useful.

Since starting this site, property search sites have blossomed

Another property site - meta indexed in Trovit too

How to build your own house in Spain. The best description of how things work in Spain - in particular about building your own house. And the amount of paper and helpful bureaucrats that have to be dealt with.