The night of the 30th and 31st of August 2012 is roughly disturbed by an inferno of huge scale. The mountain range behind Elviria is completely on fire and is affecting the entire area between Ojen and Mijas. The fire started in Alhaurin and it is said it was provocated on at least two different [...]

The measure was announced 3 days ago by Ana Pastor, Minister of Development, at the press conference after the Council of Ministers. It implies that anyone who purchases a house from tomorrow will, when selling, receive a 50% bonus on Plusvalia taxes (a tax payed over value increase). The exemption serves both individuals and corporations so the personal income tax and corporate tax are affected.  The measure will not affect transfers of [...]

THE Spanish government has partly nationalised the country’s fourth-largest bank, which is struggling with €32 billion of loans linked to the troubled property market. Under the deal, €4.5 billion in government loans to Bankia – which holds 10 per cent of the country’s deposits – will be turned into shares in the group’s parent company [...]

According to minister Ana pastor who visited the works on the bypass of the A-7 road in San pedro last week the tunnel will open in June for traffic. This would mean an end to a work that should have been finished for a couple of years already and a major infrastructural improvement for commuters [...]

The Spanish tax authority (Agencia Tributaria) owes a total sum of 10.2 million euros to the city of Marbella for unjust charging of IVA (VAT), plus interest over the amount to the old local government body the ´Sociedad Municipal Gerencia de Compras´. Marbella´s mayoress Ángeles Muñoz has communicated this news as they have been trying to claim [...]

Repsol has announced it will start its search for gas off the Costa del Sol off Mijas next year. The company will first carry out work to determine the best locations for the main probes. There are six sections assigned for exploration along the Costa del Sol, from Fuengirola and Mijas in the west to [...]

Plans for a +500 parking spaces subterenean parking on the Severo Ochoa street (on the east side of the center the main road entering Marbella) are moving forward. Provisional aproval has been given by the town hall and plans will have to pass through the Junta from here. The parking will have 518 places of [...]

The second phase of taking non authorized billboards will be completed before summer 2012 and will see about 200 billboards taken away. The first phase has been completed ending of last year and the plan is to take a total of 800 illegally placed large format billboards away to decrease the visual impact on the [...]

Airlines Vueling and Ryanair are profiting from the failure of Spanair. Both airlines have reported increases in the amount of passengers on routes operated by Spanair. Iberia, Spain´s largest airline who are soon to launch a pricefighter airline (Iberia Express) also have reported increase in flights and capacity on routes affected by the bankrupcy of [...]

Marbella is aiming towards a more online administration and make many processes more efficient that way. The local government has approved a new local ordinance for the electronic register and administration. With this law in place soon many things that took ages before will be arranged by the click of the mouse according to a [...]