Alfredo Bloy-Dawson – Costa del Sol Real Estate Consultant

June 27, 2026

Spain Updates Tax Haven List: Gibraltar Removed, Russia Added

Spain’s Ministry of Finance has updated its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions (commonly referred to as ‘tax havens’), removing Gibraltar, Barbados, Dominica, Samoa, the Seychelles, and Trinidad and Tobago, according to an article in Expansión. This decision follows confirmation of the effective exchange of tax information and greater convergence of their tax regimes with international standards, according to a ministerial order published this Saturday in the […]

Spanish Property Market

June 23, 2026

Explained: Spain’s 26.1% New-Build Property Tax Burden

While public debate routinely centres on rising material costs and high demand, an Ernst & Young (EY) report commissioned by the Madrid Promoters Association (Asprima) has brought a startling reality to light: taxes and administrative fees now account for a staggering 26.1% of the total cost of a new-build home in Spain. To unpack what this means for developers and everyday buyers, property expert Alfredo […]

Stats

June 12, 2026

Spanish Housing Market Update: April 2026 Land Registry Data

Let’s dive straight into the latest provisional data from Spain’s land registry (Colegio de Registradores) for April 2026. If you are tracking the Spanish property market, the headline figure shows a gentle tapping of the brakes nationally, but as always with Spanish real estate, the real story is entirely local. Here is exactly what happened to residential property sales in April 2026 compared to the […]

Stats

June 11, 2026

Wtf: Why Nobody Can Agree on the Numbers

If you’ve ever tried to figure out exactly how many homes are selling in Spain in a given month, you’ve probably ended up staring at a bunch of conflicting numbers, scratching your head. Take March 2026, for example. If you look at the official headline news, you are told one thing. If you log into the back-end statistical portals (Penotariado), you see another. And if […]

News

May 22, 2026

National rental registry declared void by Spanish Supreme Court

The Spanish Supreme Court has partially accepted an appeal against Royal Decree 1312/2024, striking down the central government’s mandatory national registry for short-term and seasonal rentals. According to an official statement from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), the court ruled that the state overstepped its constitutional boundaries by enacting an exhaustive national registration process. Because tourism and housing oversight belongs strictly to Spain’s […]

Tech

May 20, 2026

89% Costa del Sol Estate Agents Use AI Daily

A LinkedIn poll asked a simple question. Do you use AI in your day-to-day work? …and the results were clear. 89% (rounded up) said yes. 11% said no. These are based on just 128 agents votes, but it is something. On the surface, this suggests AI is now standard across the sector. But the comments show a more detailed picture. They show how AI is […]

Stats

May 8, 2026

75% of Spanish Property Sales Financed With a Mortgage

According to data from the Spanish Land Registry, 133,618 residential mortgages were registered in Spain during Q1 2026, up from 132,385 in the previous quarter, a quarterly increase of 0.9%. Mortgages accounted for 75% of all residential property transactions during the quarter, 0.8 percentage points higher than the previous quarter. Seven autonomous communities recorded quarterly increases in mortgage activity. The highest volumes were registered in […]

Stats

May 7, 2026

Beyond the Brits: Foreign Buyers Ranked

Based on the Q1 2026 Spanish Real Estate Land Registry Statistics report, foreign demand reached 13.9% of all purchases during the quarter, totalling just under 24,800 properties. The following table details the number of properties sold to the top 18 foreign nationalities in Spain during Q1 2026. Note that these figures are derived by applying the specific percentage of each nationality relative to the total […]

Quarterly Review

May 3, 2026

Sotogrande Property Market: Q1 2026 in Focus

I caught up with Charlie Gubbins, Partner at Noll Sotogrande, to get his read on how the first quarter has played out for the real estate marke there. “Q1 has been relatively okay,” Charlie told me. “A slow start. I think everyone had that with the weather and people getting on later.” The numbers from Spain’s Notarial Statistics Portal for postcode 11310 backs that up. […]

Stats

April 28, 2026

Spain’s Emancipation Hurdle (compared)

Two-thirds (67.1%) of Spanish adults aged 18 to 34 were still living in their parental home in 2025, according to Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) survey ‘Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida‘ (ECV). Among those aged 26 to 34, nearly half (47.3%) say they cannot afford to move out – 34.6% citing unaffordable rent and 12.7% unable to purchase a home, per INE data reported by […]