
11 Jun 2026
Legal & Finance
A decade ago, a son inheriting a €1.5 million villa in Mijas faced a Spanish inheritance tax bill of €474,260. Under the rules now in force in Andalucía, the same inheritance produces a bill of roughly €4,742 — and if the estate had been worth under €1 million per heir, nothing at all. For the thousands of foreign families who own property between Marbella and Casares, the question of what happens to a Spanish home on death has quietly become one of the most favourable parts of the entire ownership equation. It has also become one of the least understood.
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10 Jun 2026
Market Insights
Is this 2007 all over again? It is the question serious buyers ask more than any other in 2026 — usually somewhere between the second viewing and the first offer, and almost always from someone who remembers exactly what happened to Spanish coastal property between 2008 and 2013. The numbers prompting it are real: Spain registered 714,237 home sales in 2025, the highest figure in eighteen years and the first time the market has cleared 700,000 transactions since the pre-crisis peak of 775,300 in 2007. The answer, however, lies not in the volume of sales but in how they are financed, what is being built, and who is buying — and on each of those measures, 2026 looks almost nothing like 2007.
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9 Jun 2026
Properties & Destinations
Marbella has no railway station. Neither does Estepona or Benahavís — but Benalmádena does, and that single fact explains as much about the town's character and its property market as anything in the brochures. A 2026 buyer's guide to the eastern Costa del Sol's three-in-one town: Benalmádena Pueblo, Arroyo de la Miel and the marina coast, and the prices, connections and lifestyle behind each.
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