Property news from The Olive Press, covering Spain's housing market and the trends shaping it, rather than individual listings. Coverage spans price and rental data, the ongoing housing shortage and affordability crisis, foreign buyer nationality shifts, and the tax, mortgage and rental rules that affect owners and tenants. For related coverage see Business & Finance, Costa Blanca and Malaga.
Record millionaire migration in 2026 is boosting interest in Marbella, BenahavÃs and Estepona as wealthy international buyers seek stability, lifestyle and prime property.
MARBELLA has finally approved a sweeping new masterplan that ends four decades of planning paralysis and opens the door to legalising roughly 18,000 homes built
GIBRALTAR is seeking fresh investment and international businesses as its new EU relationship transforms cross-border movement and strengthens commercial links with Spain.
TENANTS across Spain have been driven out of major provincial capitals by soaring rents, creating unprecedented demand in surrounding commuter towns and secondary municipalities. Data
THE Spanish government’s new flagship national affordable housing portal has come under fire for offering zero homes across Andalucia or Madrid. The Casa 47 website
Andalucia is introducing a mandatory register for real estate agents aimed at improving professionalism, transparency, training and consumer protection across the property sector.
THE PP president of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, is facing growing questions over her regional government's purchase of a €6.3m penthouse with public cash
SPANISH house prices have fallen month-on-month for the first time in nearly four years, ending a relentless 43-month streak of consecutive national increases. Average asking
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