Sun, sea and beautiful scenery, Marbella really does have it all. Known for the marvellous micro-climate that sees the sun shining for 320 days a year, this privileged region of the Costa del Sol attracts upmarket visitors and permanent residents in their thousands every year.
The mature Marbella property market has grown with this demand and offers a range and variety of homes that would be hard to beat anywhere else. Traditional tastes are catered to with beautiful Andalusian luxury villas set in their own gardens, however, there is also a new wave of properties arriving that are not only modern in aspect, but in technology too.
The rise of domotics Domotics can be defined as the technology of home automation, a science that has been steadily gaining in popularity as new home internet capability offers higher bandwidth and faster networks coupled with burgeoning smartphone capability. The ‘interconnectivity of things’ has produced some surprising innovations, from the fridge that can count calories to a bath that will run itself, setting the perfect depth and temperature remotely from your smart phone. Yet it is in the field of energy consumption that the most important developments lie. Solar energy has been around for a number of years now, though traditionally it has been difficult to store the energy produced from this limitless source. Photovoltaic cells provided a solution to this conundrum, yet energy solutions these days are even more intelligent. Batteries containing integrated software from companies such as Tesla and Ovo are leading the charge in energy provision. Factors such as price, time of day, predicted consumption and even forecast weather patterns can be taken into account to either use cheaper energy to charge batteries with at night or switch to solar energy when the sun is predicted to shine. Energy usage can also be monitored throughout the home, automatically closing blinds to keep the sun out, opening windows to allow cooler air to circulate or even ensuring pool covers are deployed in order to maintain an optimum temperature.
Marbella Hills Homes has some wonderful modern properties available and would be delighted to arrange viewings, so please contact us to find out more.
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