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Four areas in the Costa del Sol are in Spain’s top 50 most expensive places to buy a house, according to a study of real estate portal Idealista.  It is no surprise that Marbella has been identified as the most costly place for property buyers in Andalucia, and 9th overall in Spain.  A square metre...

THE billionaire car tycoon, Wolfgang Porsche, has been holidaying in Mallorca with his girlfriend, Princess Gabriele of Leiningen. The pair have been staying at the luxury hotel complex St. Regis Mardavall after arriving on the island by private jet.  Luxury real estate agent Marcel Remus has reportedly been accompanying the couple on property searches. On...

THE Olive Press carried out a Q&A with Sam Shaje, the man behind the deals and CEO of Marbella Estate Group, about the state of the Marbella luxury property market in 2023. Did house prices go up or down in 2022? In 2022 house prices went up – we’re talking about a rise of about...

MALAGA is the now the fifth most expensive province for buying homes in Spain in comparison to wages, latest figures indicate. The place where the highest proportion of wages that has to go towards home ownership in the country is the Balearic Islands. Madrid, Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country, and Barcelona precede Malaga in this...

BRIAN Berney from C2C Properties is passionate about regulation in the real estate industry and concerned that the vast majority of real estate agents on the Costa del Sol are not members of any professional bodies or affiliated with the Official College of Real Estate Agents. He explains: “Not all agents are registered, as it...

IT has been something of a silent takeover. But in just seven years an ambitious Israeli group has acquired 17 hotels in Spain. In the last year alone, the Leonardo chain has bought eight hotels in the country, with six in the Balearic Islands and one in Fuengirola. The giant €200m-plus splurge includes its first...

WHY do people come to Javea? Why do they invest their money in property in this small Mediterranean town over many others? What is it about Javea that brings people here on holidays, makes them retire and invest here or to relocate here with families? Julie Jones, the owner and founder of Alta Villas, a...

AT home, Enric Miralles is seen as one of Spain’s most celebrated architects, with works including the Santa Caterina Market and Natural Gas Building, both in Barcelona. Abroad however, it is sadly a rather different story, where he has become infamous for designing the much derided Scottish Parliament. Causing much controversy, the building in Edinburgh,...

THE Goya Real Estate group has announced details of its project to build the ‘Gran Delfin Private Residences & Hotel’, situated next to the Delfin tower in Benidorm which finished construction last year. The new 158 metre high building will have more than 44 floors with over 200 apartments and an exclusive hotel on the...

IT is said to be Spain’s most renewable home. Casa Sophia, near Madrid, is constructed entirely from recycled and low-impact materials which ‘protect the planet but also the health of its inhabitants’.  Covered in an incredible 60 solar panels generating a whopping 24,000 kWh of electricity a year, it creates much more energy than it...