Nueva Andalucía is renowned on the Costa del Sol for the number and quality of its golf courses. The celebrated ‘Golf Valley’ lies at the heart of this residential area, and it goes without saying that aficionados of the sport have for many years flocked here when looking for properties to buy or rent in Marbella.
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Whilst it is true that Marbella has an enviable climate with 320 days of sunshine, and in theory golfers can play year round, there are times when it is simply too hot. That is why golfers look forward to the end of the summer and to the beginning of a new golf season in the cooler, but still dry and sunny days of autumn and winter.
This is when golfers start to flock back to the immaculately kept greens of the Costa del Sol. The majority of Marbella’s golf courses have well-placed residential complexes with frontline golf properties that are perfect for the visiting golfer, whether they come with family or with a group of fellow golf enthusiasts. Continue reading »
Anyone who lives or has visited the Costa del Sol over the past thirty years is well aware of the importance of golf to the local economy. There are more than seventy golf courses in the Málaga region that bring in a tremendous boost to local revenues, both directly and indirectly as golfers tend to be of above average incomes. Indeed Nueva Andalucía, the largest residential area in Marbella and home to several historic golf clubs, is known to locals as the ‘Golf Valley’.
In recent years the golfing industry saw a downturn as both the economic crisis hit the area and also sales tax – IVA – was raised from 8% to 21%. Despite calls from the Junta de Andalucía and the Royal Spanish Golfing Federation to the Ministry of Finance to classify golfing as a tourist industry and therefore qualify for a lower rate of tax, the levy was retained and presented a significant burden to local golf clubs. Continue reading »
The Costa del Sol is not nicknamed the ‘Costa del Golf’ for nothing – the Nordica Real Estate head office finds itself in the middle of the Golf Valley of Andalucía, surrounded by many famous golf courses which are open all year round. Perhaps one of the most famous of these golf courses is Los Naranjos. Dating from 1977, it was one of the first to spring up in response to increasing international travel and the growth of luxury tourism to the Costa del Sol that began in the early 1970s.
