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People from across Europe and beyond are drawn to buy homes on the Costa del Sol and even move here permanently, but when they think of Marbella it is usually the beachfront areas, leafy residential suburbs surrounding golf courses and private country clubs they picture. For this reason, the bulk of those who buy property in Marbella look for apartments, penthouses and villas for sale in Sierra Blanca, Nueva Andalucía, La Quinta, Los Arqueros, Guadalmina, El Madroñal, La Zagaleta, Río Real, Los Monteros and similar residential resort areas of the Costa del Sol.

Marbella is an area rich in beautiful scenery – from beachside sea vistas across the Mediterranean to mountain scenery, golf views, verdant suburbs with lush subtropical gardens and also hillside locations that take in the entire coastal region and trace the shoreline all the way to Gibraltar and North Africa – so how could views not be a major part of life on the Costa del Sol?

The property market, like all consumer-based ones, is always evolving and incorporating new technologies, trends and social reactions. Not surprisingly, the Covid situation has had a big impact too, and it is being reflected in the latest home designs, especially in Marbella.

Some of the earliest properties built in Marbella belonged to the school of modern architecture. In fact, with their sleek white lines and single-storey dimensions, these villas built as long ago as the 1950s and 1960s have stood the test of time and continue to look fresh today. In the years that followed, architects favoured a more traditional Mediterranean style that celebrated the rich variety of decorative detail in this region, though most homes continued to be white. This changed in the 1990s, when famous architect Melvin Villaroël introduced the earthy terracotta tones inspired by southern Morocco that would later become so popular on the Costa del Sol.

Many of those who have gone on to buy a home in Marbella and surroundings, first stayed in one of the hotels in the area, yet now there are also luxury new developments that allow you to have the best of all worlds: your own property in Marbella within a private development with all the amenities of a resort.

While it is true that the travel restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 crisis have greatly reduced the number of international tourists to the Costa del Sol, the impact on the higher end of the Marbella property market has been pretty much non-existent. In fact, local studies and market reports indicate a flood of new enquiries coming in as the lockdown eased, and by mid-June sales began to rise to above the same level last year.