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Paco de la Torre has issued a MORATORIUM for new rental tourist properties in Malaga. There are an estimated 13,000 holiday homes in the municipality and the mayor said the ‘global moratorium’ would come soon. De la Torre explained that the council would be able to provide an accurate total for hotel beds, both those which are licensed and those …

13 PEOPLE have been arrested in Spain as part of a major international operation targeting Ireland’s ‘The Family’ drug gang. ‘The Family’ is regarded as Ireland’s largest organised criminal organisation with police acting in simultaneous raids coordinated by Europol. Five arrests were made by the Irish police on Monday. The leader of the gang, one of three brothers arrested, is …

Friday, 21 March 20, 09:49 Numerous iconic singers and bands from the 1980s national and international pop scene will come together in Malaga for the Generación Tocata festival, a musical extravaganza to be held in the José María Martín Carpena sports complex in Malaga on Saturday 12 April. The lineup of performers includes several international bands that were at the …

Flamenco Soho will be held at the Teatro Soho Caixabank, Malaga for the fifth year in a row. This is a series recitals featuring eight of today’s leading flamenco figures. The shows, which take place from March to July, will combine orthodox flamenco artists with those who fuse lighter styles of world music into their performances. The cycle begins on …

DAVID Chipperfield has confirmed that the design of the Torre del Puerto de Malaga skyscraper has been updated significantly. Chipperfield has taken the project in a different direction. Originally led by Malaga-based Malaga architect Jose Segui (who resigned from the project at the end 2024), the original vision was shifted under Segui’s leadership.  In a recent private presentation at Malaga …

I’m a Marbella real estate specialist with over 50 years of experience. Therefore, it is my duty to give a response to the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to tackle the housing crisis. Among the 12 measures outlined this month, the proposal to increase the fiscal cost of property purchases by non-EU residents to ‘up to 100% of the value …

A RUSSIAN mafia group that laundered millions of euros for years in Spain for international criminal gangs, boasted of its contacts with ‘well-known Spanish politicians’ to help its activities. Clients included big criminal organizations operating in Spain, as well other countries, such as the Mocro Maffia (Serbian and Albanian cartels), the Colombian cartels (Cartel de Colombia), the Armenian mafia clans, …

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 09:28This page was last updated at 11:49h. | Updated 11:49h. As is the case in the rest of Spain as well, Malaga is gearing up for the carnival, which is the first big festival of the year following the Three Kings. Carnival is traditionally celebrated the week prior to Ash Wednesday which marks the start …

According to economists, the number of MALAGA holiday apartment bookings dropped by 37,000 from July to November last year because domestic demand was down. Major protests took place in 2024 over ‘saturation’ of tourist areas and whether domestic residents were influenced by those demonstrations remains unclear. In 2023, there were 609,277 apartment reservations during the same period. READ MORE These …

A MOROCCAN has been arrested for murder following the death of an American priest in a Malaga apartment. On January 21, the body of Father Richard Gross, a Catholic priest from California, was discovered inside a holiday apartment located on Calle Viento. Police said the 80-year-old had a severe wound to the head and other ‘clear signs of violence’. The …