Marbella Mayor, Angeles Muñoz has strong been criticized by The Junta de Andalucia for legalize all the occupied illegally build properties in Marbella as “judicially impossible”. She can’t change black to white. A big backlash for the new Marbella Town Halls GGOU plans. The regional councillor or housing, Juan Espadas, called for a rigorous PGOU Urban Plan for Marbella town that would also convince the courts, adding that it was with the courts where the decision would be taken.

Its over 18.000 illegal Marbella apartments or Marbella villas that Marbella Town Hall want to legally in the new PGOU Urban Plan by just legalize them. Some think is right and some wrong, everything goes back to the Gil era when they sold illegal land and buildings licenses and  now has the new Marbella Mayor huge problem to get it right on the papers, because the banks don’t give any mortgage to buyer when someone want to sell their home.

The problem is politic, The Junta Andalucia is running by PSOE and Marbella is running by PP, so they don’t work together and the latest thing is this when the regional councillor or housing, Juan Espadas, said that proposing the general legalization was a serious mistake. ‘We have always said that it’s not a case of simply change the illegal to make it legal, but a task of defining a coherent and reasonable model’, he said.

Owners of property in Marbella can starting relax now. Marbella Town Halls mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, did have a press conference this week and she made it clear her intention to legalize most of the illegally built property in the municipality, including that constructed during the years of the GIL administration.

Totally, she said that is estimated 18,000 buildings constructed under GIL era and after with his illegal licenses, which did not meet the requirements of the 1986 Urban Plan, would now be legalized, and that includes some of the most controversial examples such as Banana Beach with 300 residents, and the constructions at La Vibora and Río Real with 30 residents each one. There are so many people who have purchased apartments, townhouses and villas who were illegal whiteout know that. Despite their being technical and judicial reports issued against the legality of these buildings, they are now included in the ‘normalizations process’.

Marbella Town Halls new PGOU urban plan leaves only some 1,000 illegal structures and most of those are not completed, and hence unoccupied. What is going to happen with then is not clear jet. But the Mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, says she will protect those who purchased any apartments or villas in Marbella in good faith and have been swindled by builders and lawyers.

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We all know it and here is the fact. The market for new construction is more or less dead. Construction levels are on average 65 percent lower than last year. Marbella for example is 73% lower than a year ago and only 129 Marbella apartments have been starting to build so far this year, not one Marbella villas or any property in Marbella. The construction level for the province of Malaga is 65 % and continues in a free-fall. We don’t see any light in the tunnel for more constructions.

Other areas figures after the first six moths; In Manilva has 90% fewer houses being built than last year, Estepona, Benalmadena and Fuengirola is down by 80%.  For example in Benalmadena only 43 homes were started in the first six months of the year. Maybe one of the reasons is that the ex. Mayor Enrique Bolin (who also has a building company) can’t give his self any more free land and illegal building licenses.

Its only one town on the whole Costa del Sol that sees a recovery is Torremolinos, where 420 homes have been started so far this year, 12% more than for the same period in 2008, but last year was a very low building year for Torremolinos.

Related article: 37.000 unsold properties, not 21.000 for province Malaga and Marbella.

This crazy Marbella and Malaya is a newer ending story. Marbella Town Hall has started disciplinary action against the former Planning consultant Juan Antonio Roca for “unjustified absence from work”. Roca, considered the ringleader of the Malaya corruption at the Town Hall, has been in prison for the last three years. (And he should stay there for the rest of his life) But, by the Spanish law has he a placed reserved for him in Marbella Town Hall and they say that legally they are unable to sack him. So, Roca has a job to go to when he is released from prison. He has a placed reserved for him in Marbella Town Hall with the same wage that he had when was taken to prison, 9,000 € a month.

The step taken by the Town Hall has been criticized by the local PSOE opposition group who claim that Roca should be fired from his post at the Marbella Operative Services as he already has several firm convictions against him.

The local government argues the disciplinary action is the necessary first step towards Roca’s dismissal, according to the Town Hall’s legal service. People have bourt a property Marbella in god faith, but now is it illegal.  Roca have done so much shit in for Marbella community and the people with his illegal and corruption building licenses for Marbella apartments and villas in Marbella.

With this economic crisis we are in now have more and more people sold there apartments or villas and rent a properties instead. And I found this article in SurinEnglish about this problem. More than 900 tenants are taken to court for not paying their rent in the province of Malaga. More and more landlords in the province of Malaga and here in Marbella are being forced to take their tenants to court over non-payment of rent or deposits, figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveal. Last year legal action was sought in 1,019 cases and in more than 91 per cent of these, (931) this was for non-payment of rent.

The province of Malaga comes behind only Barcelona (4,576), Madrid (2,391) and Valencia (1,295) in the national listing, which proves just how hard the area has been hit by the construction slump and the massive job losses this has entailed and this has only started.

Cayetano Rengel, president of the Malaga Property Owners Association, says that the legal process involved in evicting tenants is discriminatory against landlords. “The process usually goes on for more than a year, and landlords find themselves defenseless, as they aren’t receiving the rent owed to them, nor can they let the property to other tenants,” Rengel points out.

In the majority of the cases which went through court in the province of Malaga last year, the judge found in favor of the claimant (977 cases), while 42 were rejected.
The number of cases which reached court in the province fell almost 14 per cent from 1,173 in 2007 to 1,019 in 2008. Estate agents often recommend that landlords use an arbitration system that cuts court action costs in case of conflict with tenants. By this system, tenants are obliged to present pay slips or guarantees when they sign a rental contract.

Now have the Housing Minister for the first time ever coming out with the figures of the situation on the construction market. The figures are terrible, but I don’t believe them. I thing is worst. The Minister has split up the figures in different groups so it looks better.  He said – For the province Malaga and Marbella is it 21,092 finished unsold properties, but in the report did we find also 8,977 under construction unsold properties and 7,130 under construction sold properties (we don’t know if the buyer are going to finish the purchase or if the banks give them any mortgage) so the totally figures is around 37.000 new unsold properties on the market for sale.   

The property experts all agree that before an improvement can be seen in the disastrous state of the property market in the province of Malaga, it will first be necessary to sell most of the unsold houses and apartments already built and currently without buyers. The stockpile of finished but unsold housing units in the province of Malaga has risen to 21,092, according to figures made public last week by the Housing Ministry, this relates to the period leading up to 31 December 2008. This is the first study of its kind carried out by the Ministry.

The study puts the province in sixth position with respect to the number of new houses unsold, Malaga 21,092, behind Barcelona 55,315, Madrid 51,034, Alicante 46,366, Valencia 30,038 and Murcia 27,279. Together, these provinces make up 37.7 per cent of the nationwide stock of houses and apartments looking for buyers. It will be noted that most of these provinces are also on the Mediterranean coastline. Of the total number of unsold houses, the Ministry estimates that 70 per cent will be primary residences, while the remaining 30 per cent will be bought principally as vacation homes.

Most of Marbella`s apartments and villas are bought as vacation and holiday’s homes. Here in Marbella are the figures opposite 30 % prime residences and 70 % holiday’s homes. As far as houses under construction are concerned, there were 16,107 in the province at the end of 2008, of which 8,977, or 56 per cent, had failed to sell up to that point.

The Association of Promoters and Builders of Malaga believe there is sufficient demand to sell these houses and apartments in the space of two years, at most. The problem is that the banks are not being flexible enough in providing mortgages for purchasers, according to vice-secretary general of the association, Francisco Romero. He asks that the banks respond more proactively to the crisis, “so that we can get new housing projects up and running,” as he put it.

The week has gone so fast. New thing happen every day, we receive one new townhouse in Puerto Banus for sale, ex Major of Marbella brother arrested, Marbella latest new, economic reports in the world, and other news. I have written little about it, here are this week’s blog:

55 tools for statistics on your website.
Turkey has 7th Largest and Most Engaged Online Audience in Europe
So easily clean you your PC from Junk!
Ex. Marbella Mayor missing brother arrested and sent back to Spain
Confirmed: Windows 7 launch October 22!
New Meta tag for duplicate content from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Marbella properties prices have Not dropped with 40 % or more.
Marbella latest news week 22
Twitter accounts hacked by spammers

The new property for sale is:

http://www.sundream-estate.com/186-marbella-property-villas.html

Happy reading!

Its clear that Malaga have not done what they must do, protect the hundreds of private homes in the forest fire risk zone who not have any protection plan. You only have to glance at recent aerial photos taken of the province of Malaga to see how in the last few years houses and residential estates have sprung up quite literally like toadstools: in an uncontrolled fashion and in or very close to forested areas. At the presentation of this year’s Infoca forest fire fighting campaign, the head of environmental affairs at the Junta de Andalucía, Cinta Castillo, spoke of 680 residential areas in the province of Malaga that are located in the so-called ‘interphase’ zone (between forested and urbanized areas, or even inside woodland) which puts them in the high fire risk category. Many of the properties in question are illegal only makes matters worse as these do not have their own forest fire protection plans.

Marbella has still not a local emergency plan.

Marbella, Mijas and Estepona, almost the entire western Costa del Sol that borders mountainous areas, and the Genal Valley are the black spots when it comes to forest fires. We all remember past fires in Mijas where the proximity of some properties to forested areas has put human life in danger and meant that the fire fighting work had to focus on saving people and property.

Castillo announced last week that her department has put an expert at the disposition of residential estates to help draw up forest fire protection plans (and the ten or so local authorities that have still not produced a local emergency plan).

Infoca offered the example of two residential areas in Mijas that have set up a mini fire station with a small tanker lorry containing 500 liters of water at the ready.Castillo explained that this summer Malaga was on maximum alert for forest fire as the abundant rainfall in recent months has produced a lot of pasture which burns quickly when dry. As usual the risk depends on the weather conditions with strong, warm winds and low humidity being the most dangerous combination.

Malaga region has a good backup for fire.

Recent statistics are favorable. Last year Malaga lost a total of 245 hectares to forest fire, not a high figure bearing in mind that in 2001 600 hectares burned in one night alone in Mijas. So far this year there have been seven small outbreaks of fire, each damaging less than a hectare.

Nevertheless Malaga is always a forest fire risk area in the summer and this year’s Infoca campaign boasts 642 people at the ready. Of them 452 are forest fire specialists and 152 are staff from the Environment Department. They have the back-up of 2,992 volunteers who can be called upon if required. Three Junta de Andalucia helicopters are based in the province, at the Forestry Defence Centres in Ronda and Colmenar and at the specialist Brica base in Cártama. Meanwhile two amphibious planes supplied by the Environment Ministry wait at Malaga Airport.

Now it start, in the beginning of April did the first illegal development to be demolished in Marbella, a bloqe of 34 properties in Las Chapas in Rio Real east of Marbella, was finally reduced to a pile of rubble at the end of last week. Machinery has still not made a start, however, on pulling down the second development that has been issued with a demolition order by the Town Hall. All eyes are now on the six houses built without a license by Prosavi on a green zone in Linda Vista Alta in San Pedro.

According to municipal sources it appears that the developers have sent several letters to the authority in an attempt to put off the demolition. The Town Hall has now delivered an ultimatum: the developers have until the end of May to start the work or the Planning Department will do it for them, and send them the bill afterwards.

From the beginning it was totally around 36.000 illegal apartments and villas who didn’t have correct building licenses, after 2 year has the Town Hall new coming down to 500 illegal properties, who maybe note going to get the licenses in the end. If you are a owner of a property and you have moved in, can you sleep well, the Town Hall is not take down any building where people are living in.

When you flying over Spain a cloudless day, can you see the border to Andalucia. The brown flat country passing over in to hills and mountains, who is totally covered with olives trees. The closer you come to coast in the south, the dryer is the country and then you have come to Costa del Sol. The largest community in Costa del Sol is Malaga and I’m going to tell you everything about Malaga and Malaga community in this and follow articles.

Malaga International Airport is situated between Malaga town and the village Torremolinos, who is the port to Costa del Sol. It is a pity that not more people take time to teach the new Malaga Town, who is bidding for the title of 2016 European Capital of Culture and the new criuser port, who has wide range of archeology, history, art, culture and charming atmosphere with shops, restaurants and bars.

The castle Castillo de Gibralfaro

If you want to know the town, then I recommend you to first drive up to the old and huge Arabic Castle “Castillo de Gibralfaro” situated on the hill and surrounded by palms trees just over the centre, but its note much of the castle left inside the walls. For them who want to see a how an Arabic medieval castle look like, is there no more beautiful place then Alhambra in Granada. However have you a fantastic view over Malaga; the bullfight arena, harbor, beaches, mountains, and the town. Here can you see the town as it is; crowd of people in the city, on the beaches, in the sea with the strong sun and the glittery Mediterranean in the background.

Malaga old history

The town founded by the Arabian from Syrian for over 3.ooo year ago and have always been a strategic imported town because of the two rivers Guadalmedina and Guadalhorce. When is digs anywhere in Malaga, do they always finds remains either from the Romans or the Arabic who ruled Spain from the 7th century to the end of the 14th century. Below Gibralfaro are the Roman Theatre and an archeological museum.