Relocation

Best Driving Schools for a Spanish Licence in Marbella 2026: The Complete Guide Getting a Spanish driving licence is one of those bureaucratic milestones nearly every relocating resident eventually faces — whether exchanging a foreign licence that Spain doesn't formally recognise, or starting genuinely from scratch after a non-EU move. Driving schools in Marbella range from long-established local...

Setting Up Utilities in Marbella 2026: The Complete Guide for New Residents Getting electricity, water, gas and internet connected is rarely the exciting part of moving to Marbella, but it's usually the first genuinely frustrating bureaucratic hurdle new residents hit — and one where the specific documents required, the right company to call, and the realistic monthly cost all differ meaningfully from...

Best Removal & Moving Companies for Relocating to Marbella 2026 Moving your entire household across a border is a genuinely different undertaking from a local move down the street, and Marbella's specific position — a hugely popular international relocation destination, but still a mid-sized Spanish town rather than a major shipping hub — means the removal companies serving it range from...

I Asked Marbella's Expats Why They Never Left. Here's What Kept Coming Up. Marbella's foreign-born population passed 63,000 people by the end of 2025 — more than a third of the town's total 173,420 residents, drawn from 153 different nationalities, the third-highest diversity ranking of any town in Spain behind only Madrid and Barcelona. Nine out of every ten new residents registered on the...

Moving to Marbella 2026: 10 Things Nobody Tells You (Until It's Too Late) Everyone tells you the good parts about moving to Marbella: 320 days of sunshine, world-class restaurants, the beach, the golf, the lifestyle. And they are all true. But nobody tells you about the traffic on the A-7 at school run, the Hacienda letter that arrives 18 months after you thought your taxes were sorted, the fact that...

Digital Nomad Visa Spain 2026: The Complete Guide to Living and Working Remotely from Marbella The digital nomad visa Spain introduced in 2023 under the Startup Act has turned this country into the world's number one destination for remote workers — and Marbella is where the smartest ones are landing. Spain topped the Global Citizen Solutions Digital Nomad Index with a score of 99.67 out of 100. The...

International Schools Marbella 2026: The Complete Guide for Relocating Families International schools in Marbella are the reason that families who visit on holiday come back as property buyers. With 8+ schools within a 20-minute drive, curricula spanning British, IB, American, Spanish, Swedish, German and French systems, and fees ranging from €6,000 to €20,000 per year, Marbella has the highest...

American Buyers in Marbella: The Complete Guide to Buying Property from the US in 2026  Compiled by LUXO Estates using data from the Colegio de Registradores, Spain's Notarial Portal, the US Embassy in Madrid, Málaga Airport statistics, and specialist advisors in US-Spain cross-border property transactions and taxation. For most of the past three decades, American buyers in Europe went to the French...