It didn’t start any new developments to build in Marbella and Elvira area last year. Over the last 5-6 year has it been build over 100 new urbanizations of property Marbella or 6.000 – 7.000 Marbella apartments and about 1.000 Elviria apartments. The massive production of properties was going right in the wall in the end. At the same time came the finance crises in the world so the market more or less died over a week. No one could sale a property Marbella, the banks didn’t give any mortgage and many urbanizations lost there first occupation licenses because of the Malaya scandal. Only the clients with cash money and who didn’t care about licenses was the buyer of property Marbella apartments.

Now in the year 2010 is the market slowly on the way back. In February are Marbella Town Hall coming with the new PGOU plan for Marbella and at the same time give all the so call illegal building back there first occupation licenses for property Marbella apartments and villas. Signals from the banks said that they are ready to give mortgage again, to buyers for property in Marbella. We have also in our company Sundream Estate got more phone calls, e-mail and other enquiry of property Marbella apartments. We have just got in 2 lovely apartments next to Santa Maria golf course, build for 4 year ago. They are on 86 m2 plus terrace, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a lovely living room with dinning area and a fully equipped American kitchen. Both have garage and store room. The community has 2 nice pool areas. The price stated from 225.000 euros. This is a very good investment for rental or to have a holiday home in Marbella.  

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A court in Marbella has told the four British purchasers of a property Marbella seen as illegal by the Junta de Andalusia that they cannot have their deposit returned and they must go ahead with completing the purchase. The purchasers must now pay all the court costs as part of the ruling, but do have the right of appeal to the provincial court.

They had claimed their deposit back after a delay in the handover over a challenge to the building license. Court orders the British buyers to complete purchase of irregular Marbella property.

The buyers have paid over more than 103,000 € as a deposit on the apartments on the urbanization Santa María Green Hills, in Elviria Marbella, signing the contract with Marbella Vista Golf S.L. in November 2004. The Spanish new paper Diario Sur reports that the apartments should have been handed over before 1st January 2006, but, owing to the regional government’s challenging the building license they considered to be illegal, neither the property nor the gardens and promised golf course were completed by that date.

The would-be buyers then claimed their money back through the courts, with the company placing its own counter-claim as part of the same proceeding. First Instance Court No. 5 in Marbella has now found in favor of the developer, ruling that the fact that the property was not completed on time is not the company’s fault. The court also said that any irregularities in the license granted by the Town Hall cannot be attributed to the developer.

There was a similar case affecting the same urbanization two years ago, when other British buyers had their claim for their stage payments to be returned turned down by a court. Sur however reports another case a year later, when the provincial court ruled on appeal in favor of the buyers, ordering the developer to return their payments.

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Over the last two year with the economic crisis in the world and our three criminal cases in Marbella under the names “Ballena Blanca”, “Malaya” and “Hidalgo” have the prices for property Marbella and apartments got down. I have write about many of the problem we have in Marbella. The problem is so many for a seller; first if he get a buyer, then hope that not the buyer’s lawyer say to his client – I think the apartments don’t has the building license or that the prices maybe is going done little more and in the end try to find a banks who want to give a mortgage, the Spanish banks don’t have any money more. The English news paper do also a lot by writing that the prices has going down 40 – 50 -60% in Spain, where??? Where do we asking the client. A property in Marbella has maybe got down 10 – 15 % over the last two years. The most of the sellers say – then do we not sell now and wait some year and see how the market are then. Marbella apartments or villas are a good investment over some year. Now can we se some light in the tunnel, Marbella Town hall have more or less sorting out all illegal licenses problem, the banks are slowly starting to get new mortgage and the buyer have understand that the prices is not going down any more. Here is some of the article I have write about the problems in Marbella.

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Only the three criminal cases in Marbella who goes under the names “Ballena Blanca”, “Malaya” and “Hidalgo” has together been washed an incredible 1,000 million euros. It shows the summaries that the prosecutor has done in cases that are reported today in La Opinión de Málaga.

The largest network of administrative corruption and Urban Development began to be investigated in March 2006. The 26 front men and women alleged used by Juan Antonio Roca (who was Marbella town planning advisor) the man at the centre of the Malaya case, suspected to be bribes and other amounts channeled around between municipal officials and builders to the tune of 670 million euros. The money came from the backhanders which many real estate promoters and builders paid to do business in the town, get illegal building licenses for new apartments blocks and villas urbanizations.

In the other cases are internationally known criminals and drug trafficking. Large sums of money have been sent around the network and ended up in accounts in tax havens. The Hidalgo case saw 220 million laundered and Ballena Blanca some 150 million

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Marbella Government has new laws for the streets in Marbella. The new regulation prohibits the offering and demand of sexual services in the street, i.e. prostitution. It also prohibit anyone from performing acrobatics on skateboards, roller skates or bicycles in public spaces which are not made for such purposes; anyone from offering massages or tattoos, or tarot card reading, without the respective license from the local government. I don’t know if this law is good enough. The local police can’t not today stop the huge illegal sales of cd, video movie, watches, handbags and the other millions things, because if they take one person today, are they out in the street in couple of hours again. The new laws welcomes by the local living people in Marbella who is tired of the huge street prostitution. 

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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Much property Marbella is empty. The beaches are packed, but something is wrong. The property in Marbella is empty of tourist. The first couple of weeks of the peak summer season this year have revealed a different atmosphere in Marbella and on the whole the Costa del Sol. The beaches are packed but more of the space is occupied by locals who have put off plans for a holiday elsewhere. After all going to the beach for a swim doesn’t cost anything if you don’t live too far away.

Meanwhile the shops, boutiques, the hotels, bars and restaurants are noticing the difference. For example, the hoteliers association, Aehcos, predicts that the average occupancy rate for the month of July will be down around 10 per cent on last year, despite the increase in last minute bookings. “Reservations are picking up a little, but we are still below last summer’s levels”, said Aehcos Chairman, José Carlos Escriban. As for August, bookings are still very slow. Just two weeks from the busiest month of the year and there are still plenty of vacancies in Marbella, Estepona, Fuengirola and on the whole Costa del Sol.

Restaurants and Bars are also noticing the effects of the crisis as customers are ordering more tapas and cheaper set meals rather than selecting dishes from the menu. Also the rental companies for a property Marbella have many emptier Marbella apartments and Marbella villas than last year. The rental prices are lower this summer than last year. One trend that has become clear from the results of the first fortnight in July is that the establishments that are better positioned on Internet have more reservations.

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The result of count how many illegal property Marbella has is finish now. The list from the Marbella planning office is now closed at 38,194 constructions outside the PGOU Urban plan guildelines approved in 1986, 24,488 of them are homes. The numbers have been published Monday by La Opinión de Málaga.

90 percent of the official list or 24,488 of the irregular buildings are homes (apartments, townhouses and villas). The full extent of the illegal building problem in Marbella has been revealed with an official count of the irregularities coming in at nearly 39,000 buildings. People have bourt a property Marbella in god faith, but now is it illegal.  

On the list are homes, hotels, schools, petrol stations, golf courses and even a chapel and heliport. Marbella Town Hall has to speed up with get the “illegal” homes there license.

Summer means hot.  Spain – Germany in David cup in Marbella, what more can you have in one week. Of course – 1 million tourists is also here. Everything tougher means more jobs for us, more people who want to buy Marbella apartments or Villas in Marbella. I only have little time over for write in the blog about the entire good and bad thing in Marbella. Ok, we had receive two new apartments and one villa, property Marbella for sale, new reports of the water problem in Marbella, slowing down in the constructions,  new fresh free fonts, new mobile prices, The sacking of Roca, illegal building licenses, Windows 7 on the top on Amazons and other news:

Marbella Town Hall still only talk, talk and talk about the water problem.
Marbella and Costa del Sol construction is slowing down.
40 new really smart and fresh free fonts!
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The new properties for sale are:

http://www.sundream-estate.com/191-marbella-villas.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/425-marbella-apartments-aloha-park.html

http://www.sundream-estate.com/424-marbella-apartments-menara-beach.html

Happy reading!