Costa del Sol property market still deep in the doldrums

Stock markets are surging, gold is glittering, government bonds are holding up, and even property in parts of the UK and the US has shown modest gains in the last 6 months. But property on the Costa del Sol is still deep in the doldrums, if a recent article in the local paper Sur is [...]

Every cloud has a silver lining for British couple buying on the Costa del Sol

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Simon Jordan, a Guildford-based British Airways cabin crew member, his wife Donna, and son Oliver, 12, had long dreamed of owning a holiday home in Spain. But having had their ‘fingers burnt’ once before purchasing off-plan from a Spanish developer they were understandably nervous about starting the process again. However, it seems that every [...]

Invitation to view property at Sotogrande, Europe’s leading residential & sporting estate

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Sotogrande, the world’s finest residential development and sporting estate, has teamed up with international estate agents Savills to offer an exclusive package for viewing property in Sotogrande this summer.

Amnesty plans for 40,000 illegal homes in Malaga province

Andalucia has a serious problem with illegally built properties, which the authorities have done little sensible to solve to date. In Malaga province alone there are an estimated 40,000 illegally built homes, which cannot all be knocked down. Sooner or later an amnesty is inevitable, despite the fact that it rewards bad behaviour.

Saudi royal family makes progress with plans to build luxury development in Estepona

p>Undaunted by Spain’s property crash, Asturion Foundation, a Lichtenstein-based company linked to the Saudi royal family, has signed an agreement with David Valadez, the new Socialist mayor of Estepona (the former mayor is in jail), to build a luxury development of close to 1,500 properties on 590,000m2 of land in the municipality, to the west [...]

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