The huge Intu commercial and leisure park planned for Torremolinos will soon begin construction, it has been announced. After years of delays and setbacks, British developer Intu revealed on Friday that the first batch of contracts had been awarded to builders Dragados and Sando, which collectively form the Temporary Union of Companies (UTE). The €160 […]
The investment group Mabel Capital, owned by the Balearic businessman Abel Matutes (son of the former minister and businessman of the same name) and his partner Manuel Campos Guallar, has landed on the Costa del Sol with a project for the construction of more than 30 luxury seafront homes. The company, based in Madrid and […]
It’s something that a lot of expats have been telling friends back home for years. Spain is the healthiest country in the world, with a mark of 92.7 out of 100 according to the latest Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index. The country has risen six places since results were last published two years ago. Government promotion […]
Hollywood actor, Antonio Banderas, has kept his promise with his home city to open a theatre in Malaga. This week Banderas announced that his new venture, Teatro de Soho CaixaBank, in the capital of the Costa del Sol, will raise its curtain for the first time this autumn with a three-month production of Broadway-hit A […]
The leading Spanish property valuation firm Tinsa published its most recent data concerning the market value of housing last week, reporting that in the month of December the on-going recovery in prices across the country continued in all categories. The year-on-year increase was slightly more pronounced than in November, amounting to 6.5 per cent across […]
The number of Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land Registry in October rose by 17% compared to the same month last year, show the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). There were 39,600 Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land Register in September, and 43,536 if you include subsidised homes (known […]
JUST three weeks after bagging a third Michelin star, celebrated chef Dani Garcia has thrown in the towel at his Marbella restaurant and will present a daily breakfast show on Spanish TV. Garcia will take over from the popular Torres brothers in March with his own TVE program for La 1, which will be produced […]
He loves coming to Spain. That was the first thing he made clear to the press after arriving in Marbella from London. He has been visiting the Costa del Sol for years, but now Robert De Niro has become a local businessman, opening a hotel and restaurant on the Golden Mile with Japanese chef Nobu […]
The latest data made public by the property registrars of Spain seem to indicate that the real estate market in this country is in very good health indeed, showing a year-on-year increase of 9.4 per cent in average prices and a 13.4 per cent rise in sales figures. In terms of sales figures, the total […]
According to Savills Aguirre Newman, foreign investors continued to be the most dominant accounting for 65% of the total, increasing from 56% in 2016. It means British and other European nationalities invested €6 billion into the Spanish property market last year. Across Europe property investment rose 7% to €234 billion in 2017 from the year […]