{"id":108641,"date":"2026-09-16T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/?p=108641"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:17:31","slug":"moving-to-spain-ultimate-expat-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/lifestyle\/moving-to-spain-ultimate-expat-guide\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Spain: the ultimate expat guide with everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-color-200\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Digital Nomad Visa<\/strong> requires proof of a minimum monthly income of approximately \u20ac2,849 and grants access to the tax benefits of the <strong>Beckham Law.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Buying an 80 m\u00b2 home in Spain costs an average of <strong>\u20ac253,270,<\/strong> according to Fotocasa data from August 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Obtaining the <strong>NIE<\/strong>, completing the municipal <strong>empadronamiento<\/strong>, and applying for the <strong>Foreigner Identity Card (TIE)<\/strong> are the first procedures recommended when moving to Spain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Spain is chosen every year by thousands of expats looking to settle down, drawn by its Mediterranean climate, rich cultural life, and high quality of living. However, dealing with administrative red tape for the first time or navigating a shifting rental market can bring a lot of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>At Fotocasa, <strong>we explain step by step the paperwork you need to sort out upon arrival<\/strong> if you are thinking about moving to Spain, which visas remain valid in 2026, and how much it costs to live in Spain in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>What are the first mandatory steps you need to handle as soon as you land in Spain?<\/p>\n<h2>What are the mandatory administrative procedures upon arriving in Spain?<\/h2>\n<p>Upon arriving in Spain, you must immediately sort out your <b>NIE<\/b>, your <strong>TIE<\/strong>, your <b>municipal empadronamiento<\/b>, and <b>open a local bank account<\/b> to operate legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":108647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13668],"tags":[16927,14821,13686,13687,13688,13550,15099,15054,15835,13547,16353,16928],"class_list":["post-108641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-expat-guide","tag-foreign","tag-houses-in-spain","tag-housing-doubts-in-spain","tag-lifestyle","tag-live-in-spain","tag-living-in-spain","tag-moving-to-spain","tag-nie-spain","tag-real-estate-market","tag-renting-in-spain","tag-spanish-paperwork"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}