Category: Costa del Sol

The number of residents registered in the Costa del Sol town has now passed 80,000 for the first time. Despite a lack of space remaining for development, Fuengirola has seen its population grow again this year. Passing the 80,000 mark for the first time, (with 82,000 people on the population census), Fuengirola is now the

Additionally 1,000 professionals from Malaga’s private health system have also received their first jabs The coronavirus vaccination campaign in Andalucía has entered the phase of injecting the second dose in care homes and to public health professionals who fight the pandemic on the front line. Twenty-one days after the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine

International stars who had to cancel last year, such as Tom Jones and Lionel Richie, hope to make it to the Nagüeles stage in 2021. After paving the way for a new era of ‘Covid-free’ concerts in the summer of last year, the Starlite Catalana Occidente festival is set to return this summer to celebrate

The recent heavy snowfalls in the mountains of Sierra Nevada, just south of the city of Granada, have led to increasing speculation that the southernmost ski resort in Europe could be allowed to open despite the on-going restrictions on activities and movement during the coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday the regional government of Andaluca authorized

The distortion of data during the coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult to draw valid conclusions regarding the state of the Spanish property market in 2020, but figures published this week by the governments central statistics unit could be seen as an indication that despite the coronavirus the underlying conditions remain healthy. The figures published

The leading Spanish property valuation firm Tinsa has published its latest batch of monthly data regarding the market value of housing across the country, reporting that in November 2020 the downward trend sparked by the coronavirus pandemic continued, albeit only gradually in most areas. Following a long period of slight increases in property values, the

The Ministry of Health wants immunisations to start at the same time across the country after the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrive. Spain’s Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities are proposing that the coronavirus vaccination campaign will begin even before the arrival of the Three Kings. Either 4 or 5 January are

Two firms are interested in building the proposed marina with 500 to 600 berths in the San Andrés area, at the mouth of the Guadalmedina river in Malaga city, and managing it for 50 years. Both are joint venture companies: one is formed by Marina Malaga San SL and Marina de Formentera SA, while the

The latest home sales figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), and the Association of Spanish Notaries, both show the Spanish housing market back in positive territory in August and September, but much of that growth came from sales postponed during the lockdown, and so far this year the market is still 20% smaller

It seems that the pandemic has definitely changed people’s preferences when it comes to buying a home. What the experts pointed out months ago as a possible new trend, is now being confirmed by official statistics. Those looking to buy a property are leaning towards chalets and single-family houses with larger surface areas than before