Insights
Two things matter to us: that you can afford this, and that you can enjoy it. They are not the same thing. Very few people who end up regretting a home on this coast could not pay for it — what wore them down were the bills nobody had mentioned, and the quiet sense that more of them were coming.
Almost all of it is knowable in advance. It is just rarely written down, so we wrote it down. And none of these numbers are ours: the taxes, the fees and the waiting times are Spain's, and they are the same whichever agent's card ends up on your table. Choosing someone else does not make them smaller — only quieter, until the day they are not.
So this is not us being expensive. It is us being early. Being early costs nothing, and it is the whole difference between owning a home here and worrying about one.
The asking price is not the price. Taxes, notary, registry, lawyer — a €595,000 home costs about €649,000 by the time the keys are yours. Move the slider, see your own number, print it and take it to your bank.
Open the calculator →Buying is one number, once. Owning is a smaller one every month — community, bills, insurance, the annual taxes nobody mentions, and the loan. Put your own figures in and see what the place actually costs to keep.
Open the calculator →The coast is not one market. €400,000 buys 66 m² in Nueva Andalucía — or 167 m² twenty minutes inland. Counted from every home we have for sale today, area by area.
See the comparison →Nineteen minutes to the airport from Alhaurín de la Torre. Ninety-three from Casares. Real driving time along the coastal A-7 — plus an honest word about the toll road and the traffic.
See the drive times →Every agent on this coast lists the same homes from the same feed. What we can offer that they cannot is a straight answer. If the numbers talk you out of an area, they have done their job — you would have found out anyway, only later and more expensively. We would rather you found out here.
We have been on your side of the table. One of us, Joakim, has bought property on this coast three times — three lawyers, three sets of paperwork, three things understood a little too late. That the transfer tax lands after completion, not with the price. That the tax office may value your home higher than you paid for it, and tax you on the difference. That fifteen minutes on a map can be forty in August. None of this is secret. It is simply never written down, because nobody selling you a home has much reason to write it. So we did.
Numbers are a starting point, not a decision. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you honestly whether it adds up.
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