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...Who Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Marbella, €35mn Where In Las Lomas del Marbella Club, a residential development built in the 1970s on the north side of the Golden Mile....
...On New Year’s Eve, thousands gather at the Puerta del Sol to honour the Spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes during the new year countdown....
...And the Costa del Sol has emerged as a particular haven, especially among Scandinavian buyers....
...Bone-dry finish but not at all heavy....
...They head out to the Costa del Sol....
...The Costa del Sol boom has not yet run out of steam, says estate agent James Vizetelly of Affinity Spain. “Transactions are fewer but of higher value,” he says. Now their average buyer spends €400,000....
...He has mixed with people both in, you know, organised crime and at the highest end of boxing. He has followed his father’s footsteps first to the Costa del Sol and then to Dubai....
...The staff-to-client ratio at Finca Cortesin – a 350-strong team for only 67 rooms and 10 villas – is among the highest in the business....
...While his empire of hotels and gastronomia now extends from Punta del Este to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, Brazil still feels like where Fasano does Fasano best....
...This was reportedly the best thing about their stay Website; Directions On my visit at the end of May this year, the excitement was palpable in Puerta del Sol square as hordes of Madrileños waited for...
...Málaga-Costa del Sol airport is about 40 minutes away by car. What A six-bedroom, six-bathroom villa with views of the Sierra Blanca mountains and the Mediterranean Sea....
...Ionian villas from £3,480 per week, sleeping six, thethinkingtraveller.com. Principe di Salina, from €190, principedisalina.it....
...Now they want something drivable,” says Hans Veenhuijsen at Costa del Sol 365 Properties, part of Christie’s International Real Estate. “Their priority is having a sea view or frontline golf....
...What Spain’s Costa del Sol is less well known for, at least in the past few decades of breakneck development, is calm sophistication....
...The latest addition is The Homestead, located 35km north-east of Ladysmith on the site of an abandoned farm, the ruins of which have been incorporated into its design....
...On an afternoon in late April, I stood on a corner and took in the view down Calle de Alcalá towards Puerta del Sol. The wide streets were quiet; an occasional car slipped by....
...At the beginning of the year, Estepona had 82 projects accounting for 5,430 planned units, according to data from Prime Invest, more than a third of all planned for the Costa del Sol....
...says John Greenaway, who lives on the Costa del Sol. “Shelves are now empty because goods are held up for weeks in customs.”...
...One is a business owner who “rather than living in a London apartment, decided to work from the beach in the Costa del Sol”....
...In 1961, Pablo Picasso created one unintentionally by “signing” the bottom of flamenco dancer Antonio Ruiz Soler’s pool in Puerto Banús on the Costa del Sol....
...He has been scouting for villas in Mykonos, on the French Riviera and on Spain’s Costa del Sol....
...Despite its unofficial status as capital of the Costa del Sol, Málaga itself was mostly bypassed by tourists, who headed from the airport directly to the villas and beaches of Marbella and Fuengirola....
...Nearby, in the Puerta del Sol, there were none of the usual men in Mickey Mouse suits offering photographs for a fee; parents watched their children circle on scooters in peace....
...My villa at Cuatro Ventanas, part of which had once been the hacienda’s formal drawing room, had beamed ceilings of Canarian pitch-pine, chandeliers and heirloom furniture, gently sloping floors that creaked...
...From complex cross-border insolvencies involving multinational firms, to the bankruptcy of someone with a timeshare villa on the Costa del Sol, numerous cases will be affected....
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