Category: Real Estate Market Costa del Sol

On Friday, September 18, Marbella’s town hall will hold an extraordinary plenary session to give definitive approval to the city’s new General Urban Development Plan (PGOM) — a document that has been seven years in the making and that will formally retire a planning framework dating back to 1986. The vote will make Marbella the…

U.S. buyers still account for a relatively small share of Spain’s foreign property purchases. Their spending power tells a very different story. MARBELLA, Spain — For decades, the foreign buyer on Spain’s Costa del Sol was relatively easy to picture. British buyers established themselves across Mijas, Estepona and Marbella. Scandinavians became an important force in Fuengirola…

U.S. buyers remain a relatively small part of Spain’s foreign property market, but their numbers are rising fast — and they are spending more per square metre than any other major foreign nationality. MARBELLA, Spain — A significant shift is emerging within Spain’s international property market, and it is one Costa del Sol estate agents may…

One of Marbella’s largest residential developments in years is now moving through its final administrative stages. The second phase of the Río Real Golf project — a 472,591 m² site straddling both sides of the AP-7 motorway — has entered land reallocation and public consultation, following the town hall’s original approval of the scheme back…

But the price index is the least interesting number Málaga produced this quarter. The registrars’ data says something the portals can’t: while Spanish transaction volume fell 5.7%, Málaga’s rose 7.7% — and 37% of its buyers were foreign. The headline number On a 100 m² property, the average asking price in Málaga province is now €429,300.…

U.S. buyers remain a relatively small part of Spain’s foreign property market, but their numbers are rising fast — and they are spending more per square metre than any other major foreign nationality. MARBELLA, Spain — A significant shift is emerging within Spain’s international property market, and it is one Costa del Sol estate agents may…

U.S. Buyers Still Account for a Relatively Small Share of Spain’s Foreign Property Purchases. Their Spending Power Tells a Very Different Story. MARBELLA, Spain — For decades, the foreign buyer on Spain’s Costa del Sol was relatively easy to picture. British retirees bought apartments around Mijas and Estepona. Scandinavians gravitated toward Fuengirola and Marbella. Germans and…

After 40 Years, Marbella Is Entering a New Era of Urban Planning For decades, one of Marbella’s greatest property-market strengths has existed alongside one of its biggest complications. Demand has been extraordinary. Investment has poured into the municipality. Marbella has developed into one of Europe’s best-known luxury residential destinations. Yet much of the city’s urban…

The Registrars’ second-quarter figures were reported as a market cooling: sales at a seven-quarter low, transactions falling for a second consecutive quarter. Málaga province was one of sixteen that moved the other way — and it moved further than almost anywhere else. SOURCE: COLEGIO DE REGISTRADORES, ESTADÍSTICA REGISTRAL INMOBILIARIA, 2T 2026 (PUBLICATION Nº 89, AUGUST…