Local
charo márquez
...pair of properties will be the first four-star hotels in the centre of Estepona. The group has invested 10 million euros in Hotel El Pilar and has incorporated the traditional style of the original building. It will have 37 rooms, four restaurants, a
Local
Héctor Barbotta
...reached to the contrary, from next year Brexit will result in fiscal modifications which will affect British citizens who live in the UK and earn money from renting out properties they own in the EU. Around 50 per cent of the properties sold on the ... income they receive, after deducting related expenses including the commissions charged by holiday rental platforms. This has to be paid quarterly after registering as non-resident owners of properties, and the tenants are listed as subsidiary payers. ... in Andalucía, Charmaine Arbouin. This change in tax on rental income could have direct consequences on the property market, because many of the British citizens who buy properties on the Costa del Sol do so not just with their own holidays in mind
National
SUR
...days. Unidas Podemos, minority coalition partners in government, have proposed that tenants should be allowed to hold off paying for an initial period of two months if affected. Owners of properties would receive temporary government support, from ... full cover to partial cover depending on how many properties they had. Some ministers are anxious to avoid harming people who depend on a letting income to live. The government was also said to be looking at more ways to help the self-employed with
Local
AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
...making them legal as has been done in other regions such as Valencia. He says his Ministry has no preconceived ideas about the matter. What is the priority for Decree 3/2019 regarding illegal properties? The environment and people. We are ... fine. We are not legalising these properties with this Decree, but the owners have to bear the cost, that is totally clear. They cannot go on damaging the environment. What does the new regulation do? It recognises that some homes were built years ... future, so much the better. The decree also applies to properties classified as 'outside regulation', but so far not many people have taken up that action. Few people applied because there were a lot of obstacles. The law permitted it, but not for
Local
SUR IN ENGLISH
The Foreign Residents department of Mijas council has got behind a new initiative to help people get home more safely. The scheme, which was the idea of Taxi Mijas, the taxi service in the municipality, is based on the driver promising to wait unt
National
MARÍA DOLORES TOLOSA
The Junta de Andalucía regional government approved on Tuesday a decree to regularise homes built with illegal planning permission. There are an estimated 327,000 properties in this precarious position in Andalucía, with thousands owned by foreign ... normally expires after six years from construction, so as not to fall foul of the court system. The decree offers a range of possibilities for town halls to regularise properties from larger housing developments through to more isolated homes, a ... illegal property has rights to services and utilities and can be entered on the official land registry, as well as letting owners make improvements. Up to now only standalone rural properties built illegally could be regularised this way, but now the rules
Local
charo márquez
...increased by 25 per cent. These would not be old people's homes, but individual properties with a variety of facilities. There is only one condition: the purchasers must be individuals, not companies. The mayor, José María García Urbano, says there is
Local
FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
...cent of the infractions. Another 21.5 per cent were renovation work and changes of use (such as enclosing terraces with windows, or restoring an old house). The remaining 5.9 per cent of properties had swimming pools that did not figure on the ... authorities' database. Place to place By municipality, Malaga city stands out with 13,050 properties being regularised, of which half were extensions or rehabilitation. Nevertheless, in relative terms, it is striking that the inspectors detected
Local
Ivan Gelibter
Urbanisation work has now started to prepare for a development with 700 properties to be built in La Cala de Mijas by the firm Quabit. The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the Planning councillor, Andrés Ruiz, announced the start of the ... the project, which will start, alongside the urbanisation works, with the construction of a first phase of 240 properties. While the majority of the 700 properties in Las Lomas del Flamenco are aimed at foreign residential tourists, part of the area ... is reserved for young people. A sum of 12 million euros is being spent on 79 properties in El Lagar de Quabit, reserved for first-time buyers. A discount of five per cent will be applied to purchases of the two and three-bedroom properties in this
Travel
Andrew Forbes
Beach near Punta Cana has recently undergone a make-over, restoring its status as one of the flagship properties for Bahia Principe. New for 2019 are swim-up pool suites, and the new Escape Experiences from Bahia Principe -signature gastronomy and