Newsletter on Spain's property market and current events
Almuñécar's new health centre has opened. Located in Calle Chinguetti, it is next to the new Puerta del Mar secondary school and the Francisco Bonet sports stadium. Calls for general information should be made to 958 649 762 and requests for appointments to 958 649 754, while emergencies should be reported on 902 505 061.
There are now 114 more Guardia Civil officers based in Málaga province, and they have been allocated to Vélez-Málaga, Coín, Marbella, Ronda, Antequera, Málaga city and Málaga airport. This is in addition to the eighteen new officers who were sent to the province last month. The total number of Guardia Civil in Málaga is now 1,901.
A total of 500 trades union delegates from the hotel and catering sectors have overwhelming approved a call for 14 days of strike action in June, July and August (CDSN May 18 -24). Speakers at the meeting held in Málaga talked of the employers "intransigence" in responding to workers' claims for improved conditions. The action campaign will began with a 30 minute demonstration in the workplace on Monday, June 5, followed by the first four days of full stoppages by over 12,000 staff from June 22 to 25.
Environmentalists and political groups are among those who are opposing Vélez-Málaga council's scheme to build luxury housing on land at the mouth of the Vélez River, and they are urging the Junta de Andalucía not to give into pressure to approve the project. The regional government considers that the land should be for hotel use only.
Ardales Council is reported to have been paid 600,000 euros in advance of approving a golf and residential development which would quadruple the size of the local population and would take up more space than the existing village. The project, which is for a golf course and almost 2,000 homes, is also planned on land not zoned for building. It was approved just one week before a new land law came into force that prohibits advance payments for construction agreements. The mayor of Ardales, Salvador Pendón, is also the president of the Málaga provincial government.
La Línea records a leap of 14.64 per cent in house prices that beats Veléz-Málaga and Torrox into second and third places with their rises being 14.56 and 14.2 per cent respectively. However La Línea is still in the catch up mode when it comes to the price of property per square metre. The survey shows that as of March 31 of this year the price of a new, unoccupied property in the border town was 1,918 euros per square metre whilst in the province the most expensive was Rota with 2,268 euros.
The Accounts Tribunal appears to have detected that 12 million euros are unaccounted for in the accounts of Estepona's former municipal companies. The Tribunal is studying information dating back to the time when Jesús Gil Marin was mayor, between 1995 and 1999, to ascertain the origin of 24 million euros that were allegedly unaccounted for among the municipal companies and the town hall. The companies in question have now been dissolved, and the Tribunal is asking their former administrators to pay guarantees of three million euros. Two of the administrators hold posts on the present council: deputy mayor Ignacio Crespo and the councillor for tourism, Antolín González, both of whom are members of the Partido Estepona (PES) party. If they fail to pay the money, it is likely that their assets will be embargoed. The third former administrator is ex-councillor Victor Sánchez Pinacho (Partido Popular), who is said to have already paid a guarantee to the Tribunal, but whose assets could also be embargoed if his former colleagues do not do the same.
The Marbella Guide reports that as has been widely speculated for a while, it appears that Disney is drawing up plans for a new theme park on the Costa del Sol. Sites being sought are mainly in the Manilva area as access is very good and there is space available. Disney officials have been discussing issues with the Manilva authorities and speculation is that there will be a summer camp opening first, followed eventually by a Disney theme park.
Riviera Andaluza Located in Estepona these are first line beach apartments with 2 and 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a guest toilet. Fully furnished kitchen and underfloor heating in bathrooms. Air-conditioning, alarm system, safety box. Lovely tropical garden areas, with big pool area and direct access to the beach, fantastic sea views.
As Nerja continues to reel from the shock inflicted on it by the region’s Plan de Ordenación de Territorio (POT), 22 local organisations have unified to fight for its modification. The POT defines development plans for the next decade and has, amongst other changes, effectively erased Nerja’s promised golf course from the map.
Altozano development is located in the centre of Malaga and consists of 6 apartments of 1 bedroom with kitchens fully fitted, air conditioning and patio.
The number of passengers using Málaga Airport in April rose by 11.6% compared with the same month last year, to more than 1.1 million. During the first four months of this year 3,526,638 passengers used the airport, which is an increase of 4% on the same period in 2005. The statistics show that most people arriving or departing on international flights in April were British, (442,652), followed by Germans (111,624) and Irish (52,774).
La Meridiana is located in Nagueles, 2 km from Marbella and 3 km from Puerto Banus, a short distance from the 181-b of freeway A7, which will enable you to drive to Malaga International Airport in just 30 minutes.
Marbella's management commission has decided to increase the number of police officers in the town and San Pedro. Eight officers who were previously bodyguards for town hall officials now return to normal duties whilst other police units are being reorganised.
A Manilva apartment block has been demolished after being built on a green zone. This is the first time that a mayor has ordered the knocking down of such a development on the coast. The six apartments were on the Cortijos Altos urbanisation in El Hacho, and whilst they were completed they had not been sold.
Manilva Council has decided to expropriate 14,000 square metres of land in Castillo de la Duquesa, so it can build council homes on the site. Some of these will be used to re-house the occupants of 15 properties which are being demolished because they are too near the beach. The plans also include an archaeological centre, which will be responsible for protecting and maintaining local historical buildings. The castle and its surroundings have been declared of Cultural Interest by the Junta de Andalucía.
Construction of a property in the Alhaurín de la Torre urbanisation of El Lagar has been suspended by the council because it exceeds height regulations by one metre. Several people living in the area had reported the building to the Town Hall as being too tall, and the IU political group is accusing the council of having granted a licence for a building which does not comply with the law. The council denies this, and points out that the licence was granted in January 2005, and when the first inspection took place in March no irregularities were evident. A second inspection in April, however, did show that the house was a metre higher than it should have been, although local residents and the IU insist that it is actually two metres too tall. Opposition politicians are now calling for the council to issue a demolition order on the building, and other people who live in the area are considering reporting the matter to the Public Works Department of the Junta de Andalucía and the Environmental authorities.
A project to build 1,500 properties in the Barranco Blanco area of Alhaurín el Grande has just been approved by the council, after being blocked for thirty years. The homes will be constructed in the style of a traditional Andalucían village on a one and a half million square metre site and the mayor of Alhaurín, Juan Martín, says the development will be in keeping with the environment. The area, on the left hand side of the road between Venta Los Morenos and Coín, is currently occupied by only a few isolated houses, and for the local authority this project is an important part of its plans to develop residential tourism in the municipality. In recent years there has also been massive construction around Alhaurín Golf, on the road between Alhaurín and Mijas, and more projects are planned in nearby La Mota area.
The Tourist sector is set to be severely disrupted by 14 days of strike action by Malaga hotel workers. Trades unions have announced dates for the walkouts after talks with management broke up last week without agreement.
The committee which is managing Marbella Town Hall following the dissolution of the council has warned that the occupants of some properties which are deemed to be illegal could be evicted. The committee has been enforcing orders issued by the Andalucían Supreme Justice Tribunal to suspend construction of developments which do not conform to the 1986 Urban Plan, which is the only one recognised by the Junta de Andalucía, but it has run into a problem because many of the developments have already been finished and the properties are occupied.
A case has been brought up against 3 mayors, councillors and secretaries of various departments of Tolox, Benalmádena, Gaucín and Manilva by Málaga’s public prosecutor for suspected town planning crimes.
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La Torre Golf Resort Spain Situated scarcely 15 minutes away from Murcia town, this new development is located in Torre Pacheco, next to Murcia’s divided highway – San Javier.
Mijas council is carrying out several improvements to the centre of the village, and has built a new road to provide better access to the car park. The 10 metre-wide road from El Compás will normally be for one-way traffic only, but the police may allow two-way traffic when there is severe congestion in the village. The donkey-taxis are also being moved to a new site a few metres away from their existing one, and a shelter is being made in the car park to protect them from the sun. These works will cost an estimated 180,000 euros.
By the end of this year it will be possible to travel between Antequera and Madrid by train in just two hours and twenty minutes, thanks to the opening of the first 100 kilometres of the new AVE high speed railway line. At the moment, the journey takes three hours. When the rest of the line is opened next year, the same trip will take only an hour and three quarters, while travellers between Málaga and Madrid will be able to make the journey in two and a quarter hours instead of the four hours it takes at the moment.
The municipal maintenance service is carrying out eight different projects this week in preparation for the summer. Already finished is the new 250-metre balustrade on the Paseo Maritimo between the Best Benalmádena Hotel and the Torrequebrada Casino. Other projects include roadworks at the Viborilla beach and in Benalmádena Pueblo; improvements to street lighting in Nueva Torrequebrada and Arroyo de la Miel; paintwork around the Castillo de Bil Bil and the addition of pavement ramps in the Bonanza square area to allow better wheelchairs and pram access.
The mayor of Benalmádena, Enrique Bolín, inaugurated Benalmádena Golf on Friday. This is the first municipal golf course of its type on the Costa del Sol, and it has been built on 10 hectares of council-owned land at a cost of 3.5 million euros. The golf course, which has been open to the public for nearly a year, has a special system which uses rain water for irrigation, and can store up to 6 million litres at a time. There is also a public golf school, and the councillor for Sports says Benalmádena Golf is creating considerable interest, as the local authority receives an average of 200 enquiries a day about this new golf course.
The commission managing Marbella has to work out a repayment plan with the main creditors and to try to reduce costs. Its president, Diego Martín Reyes, has been to Madrid to talk with the social security and tax offices to try to ascertain the exact amount owed. Years of mounting debt mean that Marbella owes at least 200 million euros, most due to the social security office.
Málaga airport's new passenger terminal is to have latest generation computer technology for handling luggage. With a capacity of 20 million passengers per year – twice the present figure – and 84 new check-in desks, the volume of suitcases, golf clubs, push chairs, hat boxes and other items to be stored in the hold will grow correspondingly.
A controversial beachfront hotel being built in the natural park of Cabo de Gata in Almería will be bought up and demolished, the Andalusian regional government announced Wednesday, in a move trumpeted by environmentalists as a “victory” for the protection of Spain’s southern coastline. The Seville government said it will pay 2.3 million euros for the land on which the 21-storey hotel is being built, 20 meters from the beach of El Algarrobico. The construction firm behind the project announced it will take the case to the courts, arguing that the regional government and the local town hall had both approved the project.
The approval on Tuesday last week of the POT territorial plan for the Axarquía region mean that plans to build 993 homes and a golf course in the La Coladilla area of Nerja, on the site of an old Sugar factory will have to be shelved. The land is now classified as ‘interés territorial’ which means no building can take place on it.
Inflation rose in April 3.1 percent from a year earlier, holding steady from the previous month at a three-year high. These figures, released Friday by the National Statistics Institute, confirmed Spain as the country with the highest inflation in the euro zone. The sharpest price increases were registered in the areas of transport and home expenses, which are the most dependent on fuel prices. Prices of domestic services such as heating and waste disposal grew on average 7.2 percent on the same month last year, the INE said. Transport prices grew 6.7 percent from a year earlier and 1.5 percent from March. “The price of oil has been high for such a long time it ends up affecting other areas that aren’t strictly energy such as transport,” explained Deutsche Bank analyst Susana García Cervero.
Las Lomas del Conde Luque
La Loma Resort This exclusive project is set in the province of Murcia, within easy access of the regional capital city, and just a short drive to the beaches of the Mar Menor and the airport at San Javier.
Hacienda Riquelme Golf Resort development of 1.864 apartments is located in Sucina, near to San Javier town, Murcia. The development occupies an area of 1,353,041 m2 with a superb18 hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus and covering 71 hectares. The area is surrounded by beautiful rolling countryside, yet enjoys easy access to beaches, airports and the historic city of Murcia. Within a few minutes drive, you will be in the heart of several small countryside villages; all typically Spanish and offering a very different way of life to the stressful towns and cities that most of us are used to.
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