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The AP-7 costs €19.55 for a light vehicle from Málaga towards Guadiaro in peak season and €12 in normal season. For Costa del Sol owners, the useful question is how much transport optionality the road adds to a particular address.
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The AP-7 costs €19.55 for a light vehicle from Málaga towards Guadiaro in peak season and €12 in normal season. For Costa del Sol owners, the useful question is how much transport optionality the road adds to a particular address.
Andalucía’s current housing rules treat accessibility as a route through the whole building, not simply a lift beside the stairs. For Costa del Sol buyers, the useful test runs from the garage and entrance to the front door, terrace and communal amenities.
Spain has recorded 61 days under heat-wave conditions in 2026, while new homes must already meet formal solar-control limits. What terrace depth, glazing and shade mean for Costa del Sol buyers after the hottest Spanish summer on record.
Plug-in cars reached 27.7% of new passenger-car registrations in Spain in August 2026, while Spain’s building code requires EV-ready cable routes to every parking space in new private residential buildings. For Costa del Sol buyers, the useful question is what actually reaches the allocated bay.
Marbella had 173,420 registered residents at the start of 2026 and residents from 155 nationalities. As the new school year begins, the city’s international schools and sharply different family neighbourhoods show why Marbella increasingly works as a permanent base rather than only a second-home resort.
Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport is closing August 2026 with 2,507 scheduled flights across four days. The bigger story is not summer traffic but year-round access: 16.27 million passengers in the first seven months, 276 routes in 2025 and winter months that now move well over a million travellers. For second-home buyers, that changes what makes a property genuinely easy to use.
A Marbella development now includes a dedicated pet spa. In Domosmar’s 320-development live catalogue, 69% are tagged with spa facilities, 50% with a gym or fitness room and 19% with coworking. Resort-style amenities have moved well beyond the super-prime market.
On 21 December Marbella gets about 9 hours 40 minutes of daylight and the sun reaches only 30.1° above the horizon at noon. In June it climbs to 76.9°. That seasonal swing is why a terrace that looks perfect in August can feel completely different in winter — and why orientation deserves a serious place on a buyer's checklist.
The address on the brass plaques says Bulevar Príncipe Alfonso von Hohenlohe. It runs for six and a half kilometres between the edge of Marbella town and the entrance to Puerto Banús, and the density of amenity it contains per linear metre is difficult to match anywhere on the Costa del Sol. Within this single corridor sit two of Spain's most celebrated hotel resorts, more than twenty named restaurants, an internationally recognised tennis and padel club, a spa that completed a full renovation in 2026, two private beach clubs, and a beachfront promenade that residents use as their daily running circuit — before breakfast.
Marbella's summer opens on a timetable. Nikki Beach begins its season in Elviria around the middle of April, Ocean Club opened its 2026 run with a party on the Puerto Banús sand on 1 May, and from then until early October the coast keeps score in sunbeds: about €25 a day at Trocadero Playa, roughly €35 at La Cabane, and closer to €190 for a Balinese bed for two — champagne included — on Los Monteros beach.