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The few new apartment complexes that overlook Los Arqueros Beach, a beautiful part of western Marbella, are small and offer great luxury at an amazingly affordable price. At around EUR 250,000 the mainly 2-bed, 2-bath ap...

According to the Ministry of Development, Andalucía accounted for 4.4 million of unsold homes in Spain at the end of 2012 and since then, not a lot has changed in terms of reducing housing stock. The majority of these un...

The average Spanish home may not find a buyer no matter how heavily discounted it is, but the luxury homes market at the Costa del Sol is doing very well, thank you very much! Prime properties with a price tag of one mil...

Although still heavily discounted, prime properties in Marbella are being snapped up more quickly than those in with medium price tags. The Golden Mile, one of Europe’s most prestigious addresses, still offers the occasi...

The spring and summer season at the Costa del Sol is punctuated by the various festivities that take place in the more traditional neighbourhoods. The final summer fair, or feria, takes place on 19th October and marks fo...

In June Spain welcomed 6.3 million foreign holidaymakers, marking not just a 5.3% gain over the same month in 2012 but also setting a record for June since Frontur began to measure border movements. Overall, Spain was th...

While domestic demand for Costa del Sol homes in well-known resorts such as Manilva, Estepona and Casares has declined by more than 50%, the Malaga province has seen a healthy increase in demand for holiday homes from fo...

Thanks to low-cost airlines, Andalucía, the Balearics and Catalonia have become more accessible over the years and in the first six months of this year these were the Spanish regions receiving most budget airline passeng...

Spain is seeing record numbers of tourists arriving this year – until the month of May Spain welcomed some 19.8 million foreign tourists, a 3.9% increase on the same period in 2012. This May the tourism board recorded 5....

Sadly, this modest recovery has not yet embraced Spain, where real estate prices are still falling and conditions are still difficult. This is one of the findings published by Ramón Forcada, Head of Analysis at Bankinter...