We are now offering a special property management offer for holiday home owners for only 300 Euros per annum, plus tax (which can be paid in 2 instalments). This offer covers a key holding service, contact service, and regular visits to your property to ensure that everything is in order with your property whilst you are in your home country.

We cover from La Herradura to La Rabita on the Costa Tropical and inland as far as towns like Velez de Benaudalla and Albondon, to name a few examples.

Contact us at costatropical@telefonica.net and we can arrange to view your property at your convenience!

Nestled in the quiet streets of Castell de Ferro you can find this fully furnished and extremely well presented and maintained Village House.

The property is bright & breezy and on 3 levels. The lower level has a kitchen and large open plan lounge/dining area, the next level has 3 bedrooms which each room having lots of natural light. The bathroom includes a shower unit and a new corner bath!

Above the property is a large roof terrace with magnificant sea & mountian views!

This is a real find, and the price is extremely negotiable.

http://www.costatropicalproperties.com/prop/index.php?action=listingview&listingID=309

The scheme assists individuals dependant upon their own financial circumstances. The banks supporting the new development will offer to prospective buyers up to 100% of the purchase price of the property. However should the bank only offer 80% for example, the Junta will offer a “top up” of between 9,000 – 15,000 and finance on this amount will only be paid on half the monthly payments for up to 3 years.

Thereafter, the amount financed by the Junta can be added to the value of the loan. The Junta are promoting the idea that the loan will be no more than an individual would pay for purchasing a Car!

The scheme covers 4,100 properties that are owned by promoters and 13,200 properties that are now owned by the banks.

The website that provides more information on this scheme is as follows:
tuviviendaenandalucia.es

A delegation from the Costa Tropical promoting Cherry Tomatoes In Berlin.

Despite recent competition, and aggressive pricing from third world countries, the Spanish fruit specialists in attendance, are promoting the benefits of the produce from it’s region. Cherry Tomatoes from the Costa Tropical are already widely appreciated throughout Europe, but now the Spanish Government have realised that this respected product needs to try and distance itself from the competition, by promoting service, quality, innovation and above all a product with reliability.

“The Cherry Tomatoes are coming to Europe from distant sources at very low prices, but our argument is that we are providing service, proximity, freshness, and above all taste”, stated the Chief Executive David del Pino, who is being accompanied by Co-operative President Pedro Ruiz.

The main producing areas for the Cherry Tomatoes are in the costal municipalities of Motril, Albuñol, Gualchos & Castell de Ferro, and several varieties, colours and flavours from these producers were presented at Fruit Logistica 2010, which during the hussle and bustle of the fayre, left the people in attendance fairly impressed. Yesterday the Co-Granada-La Palma (the largest Fruit Logistics business in the region), unveiled their new brand of Cherry Tomato called ‘Topmate’, as well as returning to Berlin with their Gourmet Club ‘.

Let’s wait and see?

Large Cracks Have Appeared And Getting Bigger.

Due to possibly the worst rainfall in 60 years, the old N340 coastal road has take a severe battering, and is starting to slip towards the cliff edge overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

This route connects La Mamola to Castell de Ferro, and has many businesses along this stretch, with the road being utilised by around 1500 people per day. A petition has been set up by some of the local land owners afected by the land slip, and is being handed in to the townhall in Rubite to try and get the repairs carried out as soon as possible.

It is estimated that the remedial works necessary to repair the damage, will be in the region of 2,000 Euros.

Yesterday the Councilor for Tourism of the Junta de Andalucía, Luciano Alonso, went ot Motril to announce an investment of 30 million euros which will completely transform the Costa Tropical as a tourist destination, making it larger and stronger. The regional government will provide up to 18 million euros of the total amount and the rest will be financed by the municipalities and entrepreneurs.

After hearing the good news that Alonso brought to the coast yesterday,the president of the association entrepreneurs, Julio Rodriguez, said that this means a lot to the region and it is a springboard to take that final leap in the tourism for many people working in the sector on the coast.

The Sustainable Tourism Initiative (STI)-aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the region as a tourist destination by promoting and offering quality accommodation that complements that of ‘ sun and beach ‘. As he told the counselor to provide kindness and good weather is not enough, so we must seek other avenues that may be attractive to tourists.

The initiative, which will be implemented over the next four years in collaboration with the Association of Sustainable Tourism on the Costa Tropical and will benefit the 19 municipalities in this area: Albondón, Albuñol, Almuñécar, Los Guájares, Gualchos, Itrabo, Jete, Lentegí, Lújar, Molvízar, Motril Murtas, Otívar, Polopos, Rubite Salobreña, Sorvilán, Turon and Velez de Benaudalla.

The adviser said the plan will prioritise action aimed at promoting a range of quality accommodation in all municipalities in the area, improving the range of leisure and development of segments and the interior, cultural, & gastronomic delights. Alonso made it very clear that the Costa Tropical has great potential: it is one of the sites which can grow and that “can and must do so” under two premises: the pursuit of excellence and not be great destruction. “It has sun, sand,and one of the most visited monuments in Spain, the Alhambra.

Cane/Rum
Also indicated was the need to seek to publicise details of indigenous identity as sugar cane and rum, which will promote the use of new technologies and to install energy saving systems clean. Commonwealth President and Mayor of Motril, Carlos Rojas, said on behalf of the district be “very pleased and very grateful” for the investment to be made on the Coast. “The largest of the province of Granada”.

The investment managed by the Sustainable Tourism Association in which the entrepreneurs in the region have an important role. The current president, Julio Rodriguez, recalled how long it has been demanding a firm commitment of the Government of Andaluia and yesterday has finally made palpable. It has come after much previous work, which has been very difficult to combine different political ideals and thoughts. Thus, in his words, made a statement to each of the mayors of the municipalities in the district who have put their efforts in making tourism initiative a reality.

The journey, dubbed “Samurai route ‘, will take three months to go through the Mongolian dirt tracks, and also Russia, where half the roads are dirt also. The same journey was undertaken by the Japanese by boat around the year 1600 AD,that’s why in the town of Coria del Río in Seville most of its people have the surname Japan.
There are a number of sponsors already for this venture however they are still in search of more, with the estimated budget being around 12,000 Euros per person.

The trip will commence on June 5, 2010, at 10.00. The adventurers will start from the town of Coria del Río (Sevilla) and be bound for Sendai (Japan).

The new plan will subsidize projects related to energy efficiency, new technologies, alternative energies, care units, education and the environment.

Cruz summarised that this plan together with existing projects such as the Urbanisation of Avenue Salobreña (4.4 million), the adaptation of the new headquarters of the Tax Management centre (400,000 Euros), and the rehabilitation of northern stretch of the street of the cemetery (280,000 Euros) brings total spending to 10.3 Million. To date the Ministry of Land Policy has advanced the City of Motril 70% of the value of the projects, while the remaining 30% will be transferred to finish the works. In total, 53 projects have been approved for Motril in the Local Investment Fund and so far the City has received 6.6 million euros, which has helped generate 585 jobs, 80 more than were originally planned.

For his part, Mayor of Motril, Carlos Rojas, said that projects like the sports complex Puntalón “provide stability and security for a better city with a more prosperous future”.

Hoteliers and the board of Tourism welcomed the change and it is hoped that this will in turn improve the profile of Tourism in the area.