According to the organizers of the second exhibition in London, there are now 550,000 British homeowners in Spain.

This figure is expected to exceed 750,000 over the next five years, The number of new buyers that chose Andalucia for their home was more than 40% of that total.

The reasoning behind this enthusiasm for property buying in Spain, is purely a longstanding passion the British people have always had for the Southern coast! its climate, its people and its food.

And in line with this choice for the Iberian peninsula as a property
purchasing location, will be the decline in choice of other normally popular real estate investment locations around the world. Also on the increase are tourist numbers, with over eight million visitors to Malaga province in 2002.

Andalucian real estate agents need not worry about where their customers are coming from over the next few years.

The bad weather along with the love for our coast is encouragement enough for them to pack their bags and head South, and as well as British investors there are all the other nationalities that consider the Costa del Sol to be the ideal place to live or retire in the sun.