Withdrawn: This Market Pulse Reported Sales We Had No Record Of
This article has been withdrawn. It was published on 2 June 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 weekly total of "confirmed closings" in euros, with a list of individual sales — each with a price, a buyer description and a closing timeline.
- Pre-sale prices for named units in a named development, and an appreciation percentage derived from them.
- A share of top-tier purchases said to involve post-closing renovation work, and a developer pipeline with unit counts and prices.
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If you relied on a figure from the withdrawn article, please contact us and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot source.