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September 2026

Everything filed in September 2026. Their news, our eyebrow, sources linked as always.

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The week Marbella's average home passed EUR 800,000
The week Marbella's average home passed EUR 800,000

Prices up, grid capacity zero, black flags on the sand: nine days on the Wire, read again with our own numbers beside them.

Fourteen dispatches in nine days, and not one of them said cheaper. Here is the week the Wire filed, read again with our own numbers beside it.

filed by Vernon Marsh · 2 min read
Marbella's prices are absurd. Is this the bubble?
Marbella's prices are absurd. Is this the bubble?

Every number says up. The Bank of Spain says calm. An election says something has to give. Our reading of the most expensive sand in Spain.

The average home in Marbella now costs EUR 803,522, Diario SUR reported on 22 August, a figure 38.3% higher than in 2022. Idealista puts the asking price at EUR 5,607 per square metre in February, up 10.6% in a year. Villa Bellagio on the Golden Mile is on the market…

filed by Vernon Marsh · 3 min read
Puerto Banús is not falling. It is for sale.
Puerto Banús is not falling. It is for sale.

Full berths, EUR 10 million of profit and a family calling EY: the port everyone says is finished is being sold at the top. Then look east.

Everyone on this coast has a Puerto Banús speech. The one about the cars parked for photographs, the champagne with a sparkler in it, the pavement that has not been repaired since the last time anyone looked. The fall of Puerto Banús is a genre. We went looking for the…

filed by Vernon Marsh · 4 min read
Marbella's beaches are shrinking. The bill is not.
Marbella's beaches are shrinking. The bill is not.

Sand trucked in every spring, EUR 2.7 million a year paid to the state for the shore, a fix four years in review: the coast is being managed into the sea.

Marbella sells one product. It has 27 kilometres of it, 8 stretches fly a Blue Flag, 43 chiringuitos cook on it and a day on a paid bed beside it averages EUR 131. Everything else on this site, the villas, the restaurants, the EUR 70 million listings, is priced off…

filed by Vernon Marsh · 3 min read