Exclusive Estates Marbella Blog

Andalucía, in third place after Turkey and the Balearics for British and German holidaymakers, has already welcomed record numbers in the first 5 months of this year. It is easy to get carried away and buy a holiday home...

The Costa del Sol is still one of Europe’s best loved holiday destinations. Many tourists fall in love with places like Estepona, Marbella or Fuengirola and decide to call it a permanent or semi-permanent home after thei...

British property investors still account for the largest group of overseas buyers, having an overall 15% stake in the Spanish property market. In 2012, the General Council of Notaries recorded a total of 38,312 property ...

Compared to the final quarter of 2012, prices for Spanish homes declined by 6.6% in the first quarter of this year, their sharpest drop since 2007, when the housing market crashed and the economic crisis began. It is als...

Perched high above the white luxury villas and mansions that are the hallmark of Marbella at the Costa del Sol, the exclusive community of El Madroñal overlooks verdant hillsides, sun-baked valleys and mountains that ris...

The Spanish economy may be in meltdown with high unemployment and around one million unsold homes standing empty, but for many expats, who moved to the Costa del Sol in search of a better life, Marbella is still home and...

Simply oozing LuxuryThere are parts of the Costa del Sol where the soul cries out at the sight of man-made destruction of the coast’s natural beauty, but in other parts of this sun-blessed part of Europe developers have ...

According to the Bank of Spain, house prices have plummeted by 34.4% in real terms since the second quarter of 2008, when the downward trend started. Having just released their 2012 annual report, the Bank confirmed the ...

Since the formation of SAREB, Spain’s “bad bank”, there has been the hope large scale international investors would step in and snap up hundreds if not thousands of unsold and heavily discounted homes. Such a move would ...

According to Spain’s Land Registry, a total of 100,768 home sales transactions were completed in the first quarter of this year, the highest recorded level for the last eight quarters. Buyers looking to invest in a Marbe...