Banking in Spain

charfar01 wrote on Wed Dec 9, 2020 12:57pm:

Hi All

Hope you're managing to stay safe and well. I have a holiday home near Mazarron and use Bankia for my bills.  Earlier this year they jacked their monthly fees up from €6 to €14 as well as other charges. They've just merged with Caixa and it looks like the fees will go up yet again so I'm...

 

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... looking for an alternative bank.

I only use it to pay water, electric and council bills. I don't use a card and deposit euros cash whenever I'm out there so it doesn't get used much and I strongly object to paying so much. I know banking in Spain is different to the UK but.....

So, can anyone recommend a Spanish Bank with lowish fees? Does anyone use one of the UK banks like Starling etc to pay their Spanish bills? If so, which, and how easy/difficult is it to set up.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Roland wrote on Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:53am:

I would read this before opening a N26 bank account.

https://www.cityam.com/german-digital-bank-n26-quits-uk-due-to-brexit/

 

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And according to this it is not available to people in the UK.

Available for residents of Germany, USA, Ireland, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece, Estonia, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway.

I could of course be wrong.