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The Brand on the Deed: Inside Marbella's Branded-Residence Boom

One Marbella developer has put three fashion houses on the deeds of homes along a single stretch of the Golden Mile. Fendi Casa furnishes the apartments at Epic; Dolce & Gabbana is finishing 92 residences a short way inland at Design Hills; and five villas nearby carry the name of Karl Lagerfeld. All three were built by the same company, and all three sit within a couple of kilometres of one another on the Milla de Oro. A decade ago none of this existed. Today the label on the building has become one of the defining features of the top of the Marbella market.

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The Brand on the Deed: Inside Marbella's Branded-Residence Boom

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The Americans Have Arrived: How US Buyers Became the Costa del Sol's Fastest-Growing Force

For the first time, the biggest group of foreign buyers walking into some Costa del Sol agencies is not British. According to the developer and estate agency GILMAR, US buyers became its leading foreign client group on the Costa del Sol in 2025, overtaking the Britons who have defined this coastline for half a century. Nationally, Americans still account for barely 2% of Spanish purchases — but the direction of travel, and the prices they pay, are reshaping the top of the Marbella market.

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Is This 2007 Again? What Spain's Record Sales Year Actually Means in Marbella

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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After the Golden Visa: What a Year Without It Did to Marbella's Foreign Demand

When Spain closed its Golden Visa to property buyers on 3 April 2025, the assumption across the Costa del Sol was that the top of the Marbella market would wobble. A year on, the figures from Spain's property registrars point the other way: foreign demand in Málaga province did not fall away — it held close to a record high.

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Marbella Finally Has a New Urban Plan: What the PGOM Means for Buyers in 2026

On 22 February 2026, the Junta de Andalucía issued a favourable report on Marbella's new Plan General de Ordenación Municipal — the PGOM — and transmitted it to the city for final adoption, ending a planning limbo that had run since the 2010 plan was annulled by Spain's Supreme Court in 2015. Marbella becomes the first municipality in Andalusia to bring its urban framework into line with the 2021 LISTA regional law. A grounded look at what this changes for property supply, certainty and buyer due diligence — and what it does not.

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Marbella's Branded-Residence Boom: Fendi, Lamborghini and the New Prime Market

On a clear February morning at the eastern end of Los Monteros beach, the chiringuito looks much as it always has — loungers raked into neat rows, the Mediterranean flat and pale behind them. Look closer, though, and the parasols carry a Dolce & Gabbana print. La Cabane, the beach club that has anchored this stretch of east Marbella for decades, now trades under the Italian fashion house's name. A rebranded beach club is a small thing on its own — but it is also the most visible edge of a much larger shift, as luxury brands move from dressing Marbella's hotels and restaurants to building its homes.

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Marbella Rental Yields in 2026: What Property Actually Returns

On a Saturday morning in May, the dusty car park beside the bullring in Nueva Andalucía fills early. The weekly street market spreads across it — fruit and olives, leather belts, second-hand paperbacks — and the cafés along the edge work through a steady run of coffee and tostadas. A few streets away, in the apartment blocks that ring Marbella's Golf Valley, a quieter turnover is under way: cleaners and property managers carrying linen, welcome packs and key-safe boxes into flats being prepared for the summer letting season. By the second half of May, the Costa del Sol's rental machinery is already running at speed.

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Estepona's New-Build Boom: Why the Costa del Sol's Busiest Construction Market Matters in 2026

Drive the A-7 coast road east out of Estepona a little after eight in the morning, before the day's heat settles over the hills, and the story tells itself through the skyline. On the stretch between the town's eastern edge and Guadalmina, tower cranes punctuate the slope in both directions — over apartment blocks half-clad in pale stone, over villa plots still pegged out in rebar and string line, over show-home cabins with their flags already raised for the day. Count them across that ten-minute drive and you rarely get below a dozen.

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Diverging Prices, New Buyer Nations: What the 2025 Golden Triangle Data Tells Us

At seven in the morning on Estepona's Paseo Marítimo, the light coming off the water is still soft and the surface of the Alboran Sea barely disturbed. A few regulars are already walking the palm-lined promenade that runs alongside Playa de la Rada; the chiringuito near the Puerto Deportivo won't open for another two hours. But look north from the seafront — toward the ridge where the A-7 highway curves inland through the Selwo and Cancelada corridors — and the outline of tower cranes against the morning sky has become a permanent part of the view. Estepona is building at a pace the market has not seen in over a decade, and that activity is the most visible expression of something the data now confirms with unusual clarity.

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