Real Estate

A law change in April 2025 already shifted the default. What you can do next depends on your housing type.

Ten years of padrón for protected housing, five for social rental. Three legal walls in front of them.

Owners: ~4 months on the permit. Buyers: a two-question viewing checklist. Renters: a stronger case for the five-year lease.

Padrón scrutiny, the ITP property tax, and contracts behind Moreno's healthcare framing.

The pound is up 1% YTD. British buying keeps dropping. Something else is moving.

A Costa hospital worker is sleeping in her car. The failure is at the layer you can't see.

€78 a month below Marbella for the same household basket. The Costa now has three prices, not eight.

Mijas. Benalmadena. Fuengirola. Torremolinos. The middle of the coast is thinning out.

Spain is closing the gap between residents and non-residents. Here's the trend nobody's connecting.

If your rural home lacks a DAFO certificate, most buyers can't get a mortgage on it.

Most expats with property here have never heard of the rule that overrides their will.

The legal cap is 2.14%. Most renewals on the western corridor are running higher.

March is when you make the decisions before spring makes them harder.

Transaction volume is falling. Prices aren't. Here's what that means for you.

First annual filing for tourist rental licenses. Miss it and risk losing your registration.

Why your current lease is worth more than you think.

Private investment has fallen since 2019. Here's what that means if you run a business on the coast.

What 2026 actually looks like for buying, renting, or staying put on the Costa del Sol.

The coast is growing up. Good news—unless you were counting on that rental income.

You've been here long enough to know if it works. Now what?

The STR freeze you know about. The compliance trap underneath it, maybe not.