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Beautiful detached villa for sale in Marbella (Málaga)

SpainHouses.netMarch 29, 2013March 29, 2013Leave a comment

6 bedrooms, Area Lot 1,579m2, Built area 841m2, Area useful 428m2, Area terrace 190m2, Swimming-pool, 1st Row from the Sea, Brand New, Luxury property, In Urban Area

Absolutely exceptional, this beachfront mansion is located in the prestigious and popular area of Los Monteros, in the part East of Marbella (Málaga) close to the luxury beach club. The property has private, direct access to the beach. Completed in 2011, used materials and first quality specifications, with an exquisite taste for detail. Access to housing, we find a large lounge with a separate dining room and a pleasant seating on two levels. On the outside of the living room and dining area unfolds a fabulous covered terrace with fireplace that opens to the garden and the pool, extending several meters into the sand from the beach. The garden has a great area to lounge outside, ideal for reading and relaxation mode. To the right of the entrance hall is the kitchen design, fully fitted and equipped with countertops Silestone, central island and appliances Bosch, with access to the laundry room and service area. The kitchen looks out onto a terrace and garden. Service area with a bedroom, a bathroom and its own independent access. A toilet for guests and three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms complete the distribution of the main floor. On the top floor we find a guest suite and master suite with dressing room and bathroom. Both bedrooms share a nice terrace with views to the pool, garden and sea. The rooms are separated by elegant sliding doors and inner courtyards bring brightness and spaciousness to the interior of the House. The entire House has staggered boards and polished concrete floors. Windows with carpentry of aluminium and double acristalamient. Garden with lawn type.

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Architecture in Spain: Innovation center for children, Valencia

SpainHouses.netMarch 27, 2013March 31, 2020Leave a comment

Five cylindrical buildings clad in colorful ceramic tile comprise the Children’s Education and Innovation Center, located in the heart of the Technology Park of Paterna in Valencia, Spain. The park contains over 450 companies that all together employ nearly 8,000 people. As these numbers continue to rise, so does the need for easily accessible day care.

The Foundation for Innovation in Childhood of Valencian Community, an organization formed by companies headquartered in the park, commissioned Foursquare Arquitectos to design a children’s center promoting creativity, educational innovation and socialization. Last but not least they tasked the architects with integrating sustainable technology. Lead architect Ana Garcia Sala teamed with M2 Distribución and Natucer of Tile of Spain to bring the $5.5-million project to fruition.

The curved edges on the buildings’ exteriors and interiors were inspired by observing children at play. “The rounded shapes lack sharp edges, promoting a comfortable, social environment for the children,” says Sala. “This allows even the youngest to lean along the walls without fear.”

While the school of colorful buildings makes a strong visual statement about forward-thinking education, the center’s carbon footprint is minimal thanks to geothermal energy, exterior solar panels, and resin-treated floors that help to regulate temperature.

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Spain’s property market attracting a growing number of Scandinavians

SpainHouses.netMarch 25, 2013March 25, 2013Leave a comment

There has been a large rise in the number of Scandinavian people buying new property in southern Spain, particularly the Costa del Sol.

One leading house builder has seen a 311% increase in Scandinavian purchasers and they now account of a fifth of all buyers.

One reason is that the Scandinavian countries have in weathered the financial storm better than most and more potential buyers are able to invest in property.

The firm believes that the trend seems set to continue into 2013 with January sales figures already up 300% on those for the same month in 2012 and the cumulative February sales up 500%.

The interest from Scandinavian markets continues to boom as buyers take advantage of favourable exchange rates and reduced Spanish house prices to purchase their dream second home abroad.
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18th Century Country House in Sils, Girona 2

SpainHouses.netMarch 22, 2013March 22, 20132 Comments

Charming 18th century residence-hotel at the feet of the Pyrenees, Girona (Catalonia)

This 18th Century country house has been carefully restored as a luxury charming hotel in the countryside. Located at the feet of the Pyrenees in the Natural Park of the Alta Garrotxa (close to the Costa Brava), the estate enjoys calm and tranquillity for its owners and guests.

The present owner, an interior designer, put a lot of care and detail in every corner of the house, spent a lot of money in luxury furniture and dedicated a lot of time to decoration. When he started the renovation he was looking to have a luxury home for himself in the area during some years and to have guests from time to time that would give a certain ambience to the property. Business was not is final target at all.

The 150 hectares (370 acres) of land afford an excellent landscaped garden with a large swimming pool. The rest of the property is forest or potentially agricultural land. The property has also possibilities as hunting estate, etc.
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Madrid skyline to get a touch of nature

SpainHouses.netMarch 20, 2013March 31, 2020Leave a comment

Argentinean architect Emilio Ambasz has decided to locate his Museum of Art, Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Madrid on the Paseo del Prado, close to the CaixaForum, the Prado, the Thyssen, and the Reina Sofía museums. The project, which will turn an abandoned lot into a 3,672-square-meter, five-floor building covered with plants that act as natural thermal control mechanisms, and with a foliage-covered roof that will collect rainwater, exemplifies Ambasz's concept of introducing greenery into the heart of the gray city. With a budget of 10 million euros, the Emilio Ambasz Foundation will take care of the design and construction as well as the running of the museum, which will include a program of grants for young architects.

"I know it sounds presumptuous, but I lay claim to being the precursor of current architectural production concerned with environmental problems," says Ambasz.

From the beginning, Ambasz says he was obsessed with reconciling nature and artifice. His first built project, the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, in San Antonio, Texas, completed in 1988, is a collection of chimerical glass cones planted into earth berms like diamonds, invoking some vision of Arcadia, either ancient or futuristic, or maybe both.
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European Court rules Spanish mortgage law is abusive

SpainHouses.netMarch 18, 2013March 18, 2013Leave a comment

The European Court of Justice have ruled that Spain’s mortgage law is incompatible with a European directive on abusive practices in consumer contracts, opening the door to more legal protection for households facing eviction from their family home.

The ruling comes in response to a question posed by a Barcelona court in connection with the eviction of Moroccan immigrant Mohammed Aziz from his home in January 2011, after he failed to meet mortgage payments on a 138,000-euro loan granted to him by savings bank CatalunyaCaixa in July 2007.

The ruling will apply to all eviction cases now being processed across Europe but might not be applied retroactively, as pressure groups have been calling for. Amendments to the mortgage law, which is more than a century old, are now going through parliament, and it appeared as if the government was waiting for the Luxembourg-based court’s judgment before proceeding with the passage of the draft law.
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Impressive Villa for Sale in Marbella 1

SpainHouses.netMarch 15, 2013March 15, 20131 Comment

5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, Area Lot 4,816m2, Built area 999m2, Seaside Resort, Brand New, Luxury property, In Urban Area, On golf course, In a mountain area, Marbella, Málaga

This magnificent villa is situated on one of the coast’s most prestigious and well respected golf and riding clubs. The property comprises impressive entrance hall, lounge, large Clive Christian, fully fitted kitchen, dining room, office, cloakroom and various utility areas. Five generous bedroom suites all provide unforgettable views, and 5 bathrooms with 999 m. The house offers comprising games room, and large terrace off 186 m, secured bodega for valuable vintages, safe long-term storage rooms; access to undeveloped areas suitable for cinema, gymnasium, discotheque or children’s play areas , extensives terraces, garden and swimming pool. Security within the estate is provided on a 24 hour. This villa has a plot of 4816 m.

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Modern Architecture in Spain: Bilbao City Hall by IMB Arquitectos

SpainHouses.netMarch 13, 2013March 13, 2013Leave a comment

The new headquarters of Bilbao City Hall in San Agustín, is situated in front of the back façade of the Neobaroque Palace that holds the present Town Hall, built in 1892 by Joaquin Rucoba Architect. The recent building contains the technical offices of the Town Hall. The historic building will keep the representative image of the city corporation and the headquarters of the Mayor.

The treatment applied to the residual public spaces has the objective to fluff the urban fabric and increase the available area to generate a little plaza becoming an urban antechamber or lobby to access the Town Hall Headquarters. The fragmentation of the whole in two volumes has the will to integrate the building into the city plot, adapt the scale and the heights to the place and enhance the traditional pedestrian way across the parcel.

Inside the building the aim has been to create flexible terms of use in the different floors, which are able to generate different types of offices, from the closed one to open work areas or common elements to relax. From the point of view of the Environmental improvement it has been adopted different strategies and actions to increase the quality of the work area and minimize energy consumptions and CO2 emissions.

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Spain Better to Rent than the UK

SpainHouses.netMarch 11, 2013April 2, 2020Leave a comment

Investors now get better gross rental yields in Barcelona and Madrid than in London or Paris. Assessing house prices and the amount that could be eared renting our property, the findings by a Spanish property portal concluded that gross residential rental yields in Barcelona (4.1 cent) and Madrid (4 per cent) are now better than London (3.4 per cent) and Paris (3 per cent).

Falling house prices and the glut of people who cannot afford to do anything other than rent means that investors are winning at both ends of the Spanish property market. Not only are they able to pick up bargain real estate, but are then able to set a high amount of rent, increasing their income.
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Outstanding Country House in Inca, Baleares 1

SpainHouses.netMarch 8, 2013March 31, 20201 Comment

6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, Area Lot 127,000m2, Built area 600m2, Second Hand

Extraordinary country house situated in Inca (Baleares) newly built but in a traditional Majorcan style, offering exquisite features and architectural details. Located in a peaceful, exclusive mountain valley, offering a wonderful micro climate throughout the year, but only a few kilometres from the town of Pollensa. The house is surrounded by extensive grounds with fabulous views over the bay of Pollensa. The ground floor comprises an entrance hall, a living room divided into two separate areas with an open fireplace, a light and airy dining room, a classical style kitchen with a central island and two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. The ground floor is also surrounded by wonderful covered porches leading out to a large swimming pool with spectacular views. A third bedroom with en-suite bathroom is located on the middle floor and the other three en-suite bedrooms are situated on the top floor and offer terraces with panoramic views.

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