One of the few and last famous people we have left in Marbella are the Town Hall now hunting out of the community. Antonio Banderas, one of Spain’s most famous film actor and singer,  who is a property owner in Los Monteros, Marbella, will have to pay a price for appearing as legal on the town’s new urban development plan (PGOU). The actor will have to give up the part of his garden that lies south of the swimming pool, a loss of a total of 1,243 square meters which also include a narrow strip adjoining the Siete Revueltas stream, because in the new PGOU plan reserves a strip to the south of the actor’s property for public parks and gardens.

The text of the new PGOU establishes that the plot houses a detached property built with a license granted against the valid planning regulations at the time. However his beautiful beach villa, La Gaviota, will be allowed to remain standing in exchange (community robbery) for part of the garden which will permit public access to the beach. Do you really think he or any wealthy people is going to stay in this stupid community, who one year give you building license and then a couple year later tell you it is illegal and want you to pay a penalty for that….

The legal situation of the property has already been through the courts. In April 2003 the Andalusian High Court (TSJA) ordered the demolition of part of the villa after the building license granted by Marbella Town Hall in 1995, when Jesús Gil y Gil was mayor, was annulled. Banderas, who acquired the property a coupe of years after the license had been awarded, appealed against the sentence but this was rejected in January 2008.

The Marbella Town Hall then applied to postpone this demolition order until the new PGOU has been finally approved, just as it has done with other cases in which the properties are likely to be legal once the new regulations come into force. Meanwhile the community of property owners on the Los Monteros estate has already announced that it would report a case of influence peddling if La Gaviota was finally allowed to remain standing.

Bandera’s neighbors plan to continue with this action, according to their legal representatives, as they consider that the compensation proposed by the PGOU only involves giving up part of the garden but not handing over an area of land equal to the size of the plot occupied by the house.

The ‘La Gaviota’ conflict gained another angle some six months ago. The criminal action against former mayor Julián Muñoz and other ex-GIL councilors for granting the license for the construction of the villa was shelved in December 2008 by a local judge. This problem is the same for many owners of Marbella apartments and Marbella villas in Marbella area.

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A week goes so fast we you are busy. The summer is here with the tourist, also those who want to buy a Marbella apartments or a Villas in Marbella. I had little time over for write in the blog about the entire good and bad thing in Marbella. Ok, we had receive three new villas for sale, new reports of unsold properties in province Malaga, beaches in Marbella, blind test of Google, other search engines, and other news:

There are other search engines than Google!
37.000 unsold properties, not 21.000 for province Malaga and Marbella
SEO optimization: Important Keywords in the URL
Chiringuitos in Marbella allowed staying on the beaches
Blind test of search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing.
No extravagant for Windows 7 launch in October
No more driving for a Marbella man.
Microsoft will release free antivirus Morro soon.
Holiday homes on the Costa del Sol and Marbella escape demolition
MSN virus, so remove you them with this free tool.

The new properties for sale are:

http://www.sundream-estate.com/189-property-marbella.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/188-property-marbella-puerto-banus.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/189-property-marbella.html

Happy reading!

It so many British and other foreigner who has a property on Costa del Sol and especially in Marbella. Many are afraid because of the huge debate, if there property is illegal or legal and if they are going to demolition or not? Marbella Town Hall is trying to sort out this problem and I think they are going to fix it and not razed any properties in Marbella. So, if you have Marbella apartments or Marbella villas, don’t be worry. I found this very good article in Timesonline, about the problem and who the Town Hall see on it.

News that thousands of homes owned by Britons on the Costa del Sol will not be demolished, despite being declared illegal, should help to stimulate the moribund property market in Spain.

Steep price falls and bumper discounts on some new-build homes, as well as the gradual strengthening of sterling, are also increasing the country’s attractiveness to cash-rich British investors.

Foreign exchange companies have noticed a significant upturn. Currencies Direct, for example, says that the number of its UK-based clients buying euros to purchase European homes has risen sharply over the past few weeks, with a 20 per cent increase in the number of its clients exchanging more than £200,000 into euros.

The Junta de Andalusia, the regional government, is due to make a final decision on the “illegal” homes later this year but is expected to announce that it will not knock down the majority of the estimated 18,000 properties without proper building licences in Marbella and other parts of the Costa del Sol. These flats or villas were built with bogus licences after corrupt council officials and councillors took bribes from some developers to by-pass planning laws.

Since the previous Marbella city council was dissolved after a widespread corruption scandal in 2006, planners have sought a solution that enforces the law but does not deter future homebuyers. Hence, after nearly three years of uncertainty, British homeowners who feared that their properties could be demolished are set to be given a reprieve.

The Junta de Andalusia does not plan to punish owners who bought in good faith. Of the 18,000 “illegal” properties, most will be declared legal and left standing. About 400 flats in Marbella, which were built on designated green areas or in an area near the sea where building is forbidden, are the only properties whose fate has not been decided. The developers responsible for obtaining licences by illegal means will, however, are punished.

In the Urban Plan (PGOU), which is likely to come into force early next year, the regional authorities in Andalusia — and particularly Marbella, where many Britons have homes — are to force the offending developers to hand over other plots of land that they own for use for public projects such as parks or sports centers. The Urban Plan has been provisionally approved but needs final approval.

A spokesman for Marbella city council says: “What does not make any sense is that those who bought the properties in good faith and were not advised by the authorities of the illegality of their properties should pay compensation.”

The Junta de Andalusia claims that many developers are willing to pay compensation in the form of a land swap because most still have substantial business interests on the Costa del Sol. But some industry experts doubt whether developers will be capable of handing over large plots of land because many are finding it hard to stay in business.

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.