Luxury villas

Living in sunny Spain is a dream come true for many people, not least of all celebrities. If you decide to buy a house on the Costa del Sol or the Canary Islands, you’ll be in good company.

Majorca is the perfect place to buy a second home.

If you've always dreamed of having your own yacht and sailing the high seas, or simply relaxing on your sailboat in a deserted cove in the Mediterranean, you've probably thought about the port where you'd like to dock your boat.

The Baleares steal the hearts of many, and many of those who fall in love end up finding a new home there, in a beautiful house on one of these Spanish islands. Blue and green colours are everywhere and life goes by slowly, like it usually does in a place that lives in permanent summer.

This is a truly unique property for its specialist features, location and luxury finishes.

When it comes to choosing the area to buy a place in the sun, there are lots of different factors that influence people’s decisions: is the neighbourhood safe? Are there schools nearby? Can I go to the gym on foot?

This stunning luxury finca farm house, surrounded by beautiful gardens and with a large expanse of land, provides you with total privacy and serenity.

The Earth has more water than land surface, a fact that has led man to design numerous urban development projects on the sea: from The World, the archipelago of artificial islands in the form of a globe in Dubai, to Artisanopolis, a modern Atlantis that they want to build on the waters of French Pol

The old American cyclist Lance Armstrong has put this luxury mansion in Austin, Texas up for sale. The house, built in 1924 and located in the historical neighbourhood of Old Enfield, is on the market for six million euro.

The luxury housing market is shining brightly. That’s according to data from the latest market report by Lucas Fox, a real estate agency specializing in these types of property, showing that the sale of new constructions in Barcelona and Madrid is at the highest point since the housing crisis.

The number of ex-pats buying properties in Spain has shot up in recent years and businesses catering to their needs have recovered well from the crisis that hit the rest of the real estate business in 2008.

When house hunting, you’ll have noticed that a distinction is often drawn between run-of-the-mill properties and so-called ‘luxury’ properties but what’s the difference?