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On the Costa del Sol, we have a free newspaper which hits the newsstands every Friday. Sur in English is THE English language journal for the region, offering news, opinion, a rundown of local events, plus a thriving classified advertising section dedicated to everything from cars and boats to plumbers and masseurs.
One of the most popular sections of Sur in English has traditionally been the ´Costa del Sol Properties for Sale´ section, advertising all sorts of properties on the Costa del Sol, from inland ruins to coastal apartments.
Taking into account the crisis-hit housing market on the Costas, you would expect this section to be crammed with opportunities for the Spanish bargain hunter, but I was amazed to find just 24 adverts for properties in Marbella in last week´s edition. The cost of advertising a Spanish property for sale in Sur in English is relatively cheap, probably around 25 euros per week on average.
With all of the supposedly desperate sellers around at the moment, I would have expected the section to extend to page after page, but not so.
Maybe a lot of people have decided to hold off from selling their properties in Marbella until the market returns to some form of normality.
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