Looks like a dog house, as expensive as a villa! a shack costs €755,000 The Austrian lakes have always commanded a high price and the residents of St. Gilgen in Salzburgland have already experienced a lot of craziness when it comes to the “silly prices” for bathing places and...
There will be no skiing holidays in Austria, not this year. The Christmas holidays will not be able to be spent on the slopes, neither by Austrians nor by foreign guests. The cable cars will start operating, but the gastronomy and hotel industry will remain closed, and the corona-related...
Skiing at Christmas? Who can get out of lockdown first and when will it be in Austria? The number of Covid cases has to go down, is the mantra. There is no fixed number that can be used as a guide. Ski resorts and hoteliers still hope that the...
Lockdown rules: According to the Austria ministry, only one individual can visit another household. The Ministry of Health specified the contact rules on Sunday evening. A meeting of several people from one household with several people from another household is therefore prohibited. The contact provisions during the tightened lockdown,...
On Monday morning, police officers and intelligence agencies carried out raids in four federal states against people and associations that are supposed to support the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. This was announced by the Graz public prosecutor. More than 70 suspects are being investigated; 60 apartments, houses and business...
In Austria exit restrictions come into force – the exponentially growing numbers of infections make the new lockdown necessary, argued Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) on Saturday. The federal government has presented the most important key points. DER STANDARD newspaper answers the most important questions about lockdown, which are...
Catastrophe threatens winter tourism After travel warnings from Germany and the Netherlands for parts of Austria, tourism professionals fear for their existence. There is still a time window to save the season. It was expected and hits the tourism industry to the core. Germany has announced that after Vienna,...
Lockdown to save the winter season? Hotelier divides the country! Christian Harisch receives a lot of criticism for his approach to a “lockdown light”, but also receives approval: “Otherwise the industry is dead,” says another hotelier. A small, invisible virus is putting Austria’s major winter sports to its greatest...
The ÖVP (Austria Peoples Party) has now put pressure for a ban on the marriage of minors. There is much pressure in Austria to ban the marriage of minors, which are mainly in the immigrant community. But it is an interesting political position to take, when the young can...
What now for property in Austria? Well, the main property market has gone a little price crazy, which for Austria is so unusual. This has been fed by locals putting their money into property as the zero interest % at the banks depletes their funds! So, prices have been rocketing this...