Spain’s most exciting property market for investment and lifestyle

When you look at the team behind western Costa de la Luz real estate advisory experts, Titan Properties, it’s unsurprising to discover that they’re charting the progress of this unspoilt region with independent research containing hard facts. Two former Investment Bankers with Deutsche Bank, a European Senior Manager for Dell Computer Corporation, their handle on intelligent decision-making in a business environment is unquestionable.

Andrew Benitz, one of the former Investment Bankers and current Director of Titan Properties comments, “When we set up, the western Huelva province of the Costa de la Luz was relatively unheard of, but after extensive research we had a firm belief that it would be a success story of the future, and thankfully we were right. Five years later our latest research document contains hard evidence backing up the fact that whilst the heavily developed Costas are floundering in turbulent times, Huelva is standing tall and still charting impressive gains.”

Follows some intriguing and reassuring extracts from the research:

PROPERTY
Property prices in Huelva rose by 7.6% in 2007, the best growth performance on coastal Spain

Huelva remains the least built up of Spain’s coastal provinces with less than 13% of the coastline occupied by urban development

63% of Huelva province is protected from build
Huelva accounted for less than 1% of new construction in Spain in 2007 yet accounts for more than 2% of the nation’s surface area

On price/m², beachside or golf-front property is 39% more expensive on the Costa del Sol and 48% more expensive on the Algarve

TOURISM
Tourism in Huelva increased by 74% between 2001 and 2006, versus 10.1% on the Costa del Sol

In 2003 there were just 300 hotel beds between Punta Umbria and El Rompido (a 15km stretch), in 2008, due to demand, there are now over 4,700

GOLF
Average price of a round of golf in Huelva is 50% cheaper than the Algarve or Costa del Sol

Planning permission exists for a further seven golf courses to be added to the current tally of ten

ACCESSIBILITY
Huelva is arguably the best connected Spanish Costa – under 60 minutes from Seville International Airport where passenger traffic has shot up 99% since 2003, even closer to Faro International Airport where no less than eight new routes from the UK were introduced in 2007 meaning all 26 UK International Airports now have regular flights into Faro, and a green light for Huelva International Airport which, at just 15 minutes’ drive, could be fully operational by 2012

BEACHES
15 beaches, eight earning Blue Flag status

Marry these facts with Spain’s bigger picture of supply falling in line with demand, low household debt, high household wealth, low mortgage interest rates, burgeoning tourism, in particular golf-related, an influx of low-cost carriers and of course sublime weather and coastlines and Spain’s property market, Huelva in particular, should remain robust for the foreseeable future.

For more information, visit titan-properties.com.