Withdrawn: This Market Pulse Reported Sales We Had No Record Of
This article has been withdrawn. It was published on 25 May 2026 as a weekly "market pulse", and it reported things that cannot be known. We are leaving this URL in place, with the correction, rather than deleting it — anyone who read or cited the original is entitled to find the retraction where the article used to be.
What the original claimed
- A record penthouse sale on the Golden Mile, described with a sale price, a price per square metre, an original marketing price and a closing timeline.
- Weekly counts of closings and new listings by price tier, and a statement of how many sales had closed above a given price in the previous two weeks.
- A sell-through figure and a weekly absorption rate for a named development.
We are not repeating the figures here, because none of them had a source.
Why none of it could be reported
Spain publishes no per-property closing prices. There is no register of the week's sales on the Costa del Sol, no public source for a sold price per square metre, and no count of weekly closings by price band. Muse Marbella does not hold a database of market-wide closings either, and never did.
The article was produced by an automated pipeline that was asked for a weekly report on "what closed" while having no transaction feed behind it. Given nothing to report, it composed the transactions. That brief has now been changed: the pipeline may describe what is listed and at what asking price, and nothing else.
What can be measured
Asking prices. The Marbella Property Index publishes median asking prices by zone for currently listed residences, each with its sample size and snapshot date. A dated reading of the same register is in our asking-price register report.
For the tax and buying-cost questions the original touched on, see our guide to property taxes in Marbella and Spain. Spain's Golden Visa was abolished with effect from 3 April 2025; the live residency routes are set out in our Spanish Golden Visa 2026 update.
If you relied on a figure from the withdrawn article, please contact us and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot source.