Category: Costa del Sol

  • Digital nomads can now live in Spain with their families

    Digital nomads can now live in Spain with their families

    Hopping between tapas bars in Madrid, gorging on art and culture in Barcelona or simply soaking up the sun in the Canary Islands. For most people, those beat awkward conversations by the water cooler in a lonely suburban office park. Remote workers looking for a change of scenery can now live and work in Spain

  • Spain is the center for cryptocurrency real estate transactions

    Spain is the center for cryptocurrency real estate transactions

    A recent study carried out by Forex Suggest, which examined which countries have the most properties for sale in cryptocurrencies, discovered that Spain is the most advanced country in the sector. The study, which added properties available in specialized cryptocurrency asset portals, discovered that only in Spain there were 289 properties for purchase as digital

  • Malaga is setting the trend in the real estate sector

    Malaga is setting the trend in the real estate sector

    Malaga is in fashion and creates trends. All the promoters have focused on this Andalusian city. Malaga has an offer of more than 7,000 second-hand and new-build homes, according to the real estate services company Activum Real Estate Consulting, where in its latest report it indicated an average of almost 15 homes sold per day. The consulting

  • Malaga Metro on track to reach city centre by Easter

    Malaga Metro on track to reach city centre by Easter

    After failed attempts ahead the big annual fair last August and again at Christmas, Malaga Metro’s extension is now set to reach the city centre before Easter week, which starts on 2 April with Palm Sunday. Possible dates in the second half of March are currently being discussed for the inauguration of the new Guadalmedina

  • Jet2.com will offer more than 360,000 seats – and an extra route – to Malaga Airport this summer

    Jet2.com will offer more than 360,000 seats – and an extra route – to Malaga Airport this summer

    The British airline Jet2.com continues to «strengthen its commitment» to Malaga Airport and has reported that there will be a 4% increase in the number of seats offered to the Costa del Sol this summer, making a total of more than 360,000. In absolute terms, the difference is more than 15,000 places, «or, in other

  • New Build Property Prices Show Biggest Rise Since 2007

    New Build Property Prices Show Biggest Rise Since 2007

    New home prices in Spain 2022 produced a 7.1% annual rise, the biggest increase since 2007. The Sociedad de Tasacion real estate appraisal company predicts price rises will continue during 2023 but it expects the rate to slow down due to the economic situation. It said new builds were fetching an average €2,732 per m2

  • Junta confident that more direct flights between Andalucía and USA will be on the way soon

    Junta confident that more direct flights between Andalucía and USA will be on the way soon

    United Airlines has already announced that its new route between Malaga and New York will be launched on 31 May 2023 and continue all summer until the end of September. Negotiations with airlines to expand connections between Andalucía and the United States – specifically, to Miami and Houston – are on the right track, revealed

  • Puerto Banús to gain new luxury residential developments and a new name

    Puerto Banús to gain new luxury residential developments and a new name

    Marbella’s famous marina and developer Civitas have signed an agreement to launch real estate projects on the Costa del Sol and build new port facilities. Puerto Banús and property developer Civitas have reached an agreement to launch a series of joint luxury real estate projects in Marbella as well as other locations on the Costa

  • The cost of materials in residential construction has increased by 27.3%

    The cost of materials in residential construction has increased by 27.3%

    The cost of materials in residential building activity has increased by 27.3% since the start of the pandemic (March 2020) until last August, the latest data available, according to the Ministry ‘s construction materials index of Transport . This figure (27.3%) refers to residential construction and excludes rehabilitation, non-residential construction and civil engineering works. If all these are

  • Sierra Nevada opens the season with a new six-seater chairlift

    Sierra Nevada opens the season with a new six-seater chairlift

    The Sierra Nevada ski resort in Granada launched its 2022/23 winter season at the weekend with an investment of more than 20 million euros to improve its main facilities and services, which includes the new Emile Allais chairlift. Marifrán Carazo, regional minister for Development, Territorial Planning and Housing, and president of Cetursa Sierra Nevada, underlined